Nigel Farage has outlined the latest method used by people traffickers in France, as new footage has emerged of migrants leaving Calais on a dinghy.
On his GB News show, Farage, Nigel analysed the latest footage to emerge from the ongoing migrant crisis, and claimed that "people traffickers" are now using new ways to prevent the dinghys being damaged before they cross the channel.
The footage shows a large group of migrants wading through the water and climbing onto the vessel, with a few people then returning to the beach once the dinghy leaves.
Nigel explained: "The dinghy, the massive dinghy that'll take between 70 and 80 people is already at sea. It hasn't launched from that beach. It's come out of one of the rivers and come round effectively. It's what's now called a taxi boat.
Nigel Farage outlined the latest method in which people traffickers operate
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“And you can see the people that are getting onto that boat have to wade out into the water virtually up to their chests in water before they're taken into the boat. You can see there's someone falling out of the boat, another person falling out of the boat.
“What this means is these are very heavily laden. Now there were three people coming back off that boat. I think they're the traffickers that loaded the people onto it."
Nigel continued: “But those people now that are setting off, all they’ve got to do is get 12 miles from Dover and they'll get picked up by Border Force or the RNLI.
“Those people, before this journey even begins, are soaked to the skin and cold. Believe you me, whatever you're wearing, if you've been soaked in seawater up to your chest and you're going to sit in a stationary position for several hours, you are going to get cold very, very quickly indeed."
Nigel predicted: "At some point in the next couple of months when there is a sinking, unless we have the luck, as we did of that scallop boat a few months ago, unless there is a helicopter or a lifeboat very close, if we get 70 or 80 people into the water who are already cold, I hate to think what the death toll is going to be. All of that, I promise you, is going to happen.”
Nigel then criticised the 'European Political Community', amid their summit in Granada, Spain, where Rishi Sunak has signed a co-operative agreement to help tackle the migrant crisis collectively.
Nigel said: "There was no mention in Manchester of something called the European Political Community. This was Macron's idea. For some reason, Rishi Sunak signed up to it. I of course want us to cooperate with our European friends, but I do not like the name political community.
Nigel Farage analyses new footage of migrants leaving the coast of Calais, France
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Nigel continued: "However, Rishi is in Granada in Spain this evening and the idea is he's going to speak to other European leaders about data sharing and cooperation to deal with the common problem of illegal migration.
"For Europe, it's predominantly across the Mediterranean, although some does come in through the eastern borders. And for us, of course, it's through the English Channel.
"Well Rishi, seeing that you're right, the numbers are down by a fifth, chiefly in my opinion because the weather this summer has been so dreadful. But if we get a long settled spell, I'm quite sure the numbers will go back to last year's level.
"But in going across to the European Political Community in seeking help in dealing with our problem in the English Channel, let me ask you a very simple question. Is Rishi wasting his time?"
