I'd prefer an 'angry' France instead of taking 175,000 migrants over five years under Starmer

But immediately somebody points out that 29,578 migrants have arrived on our shores already this year (ahead of the whole of last year) then the shutters come down. Not a peep. All we hear is some tosh that he intends to smash the gangs.

He didn’t do much smashing last Thursday as 11 boats came ashore bringing with them 509 migrants. There were some stats I saw that showed housing illegal migrants is costing £42,000 a year, the same price as putting a child through boarding school.

The bottom line is that with Rwanda having been killed by Labour there is nothing to stop this tide. In fact, many immigration officers believe that there are at least as many coming into the country in the back of lorries as arriving by boat.

So, what are we going to do?

My suspicion is that Starmer intends to do nothing. He views these thousands of people, with their massive cultural differences from the majority population, as potential Labour voters and therefore are to be made very welcome on your money.

Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform, has a view much closer to mine. He spelled out that he was in favour of picking them up and, under the 1982 UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, returning them to France.

When asked how the French would take it, he said there would be a standoff but not a war. Clearly, nobody wants a war, but the reality that is what France is banking on by not trying when they see boats head off from their shores.

The French could intercept and they choose not to. That reaction is plain wrong but we don’t do anything about it as both Sunak and Starmer want to maintain decent relations with our neighbour.

I don’t accept that. Right is on our side. These migrants have travelled across Europe to get to the Calais coast and they could have been detained at any point. The EU want the migrants to hurry through their countries so they are not their problem.

I certainly believe that a show of strength is preferable to another five years of allowing 35,000 migrants a year heading across the channel, a staggering 175,000. That would mean towns/cities the size of Norwich of Blackpool, not to mention the extra child births as the migrants correctly work out that if they have a baby then under ECHR they would never be thrown out.

These are difficult times for our country. Western Europe is becoming poorer but still remains, thanks to our welfare system.

How do they get into our country? Have they the right to work? These questions are raised by me. Simply a journalist. Why won’t Starmer talk about them? As I said, he’s happy to talk about anything else.

The reason he stays schtum is that he has no solutions and those that would work he wouldn’t touch with a barge pole. The reality is that we will have to wait to 2029 before a solution will arrive in either the shape of the Tories or Reform. Or both. Keep your fingers crossed.