Il ministro rifiuta la richiesta di Trump per i militari di affrontare la migrazione illegale

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Hear me out here as a misguided and outlandish thought exercise;

This may actually be not that bad an idea but not in the way trump meant; broken clock and all that.

Legal issues, morality etc aside for moment;

The RN patrolling the channel for migrants doesn’t solve any root causes. It’s a truly daft idea. It’s reactionary, increasing risk of people being unalived at some point and economically it’s such a huge over-reaction.

Using the UK Intelligence apparatus and special forces to tackle the people smugglers and organisers of the boats before they take to water via counter-insurgency tactics would actually have a chance at making a difference and would result in minimising innocents being hurt.
It’s akin to cutting the metaphoric head off the snakes (i’ve nothing against snakes).

Alternatively, we could set up a ‘medium’ sized boat force (got to be bigger than the small boats) comprised of tommy robinson supporting types to patrol the channel personally so they put their money where their mouths are. There may be casualties on the UK side but omelette and eggs as the saying goes.

Ironically;
The UK gov could potentially solve this problem by charging the immigrants the nearly 50k per head they pay the smugglers, undercut the market slightly and make cash out of this instead reducing the tax burden associated with immigration. They also wouldn’t be indebted to modern slavery either.
It’s unsavoury yes; poor optics definitely, unethical and exploitation of people potentially fleeing harm/ oppression etc.

There’s the elephant in the room though;
In less than a decade we’re projected to have a quarter of the UK population as pensioners, seriously who pays for pensioners and looks after them when birth rates are plummeting? We need more people as a nation just to pay for the old folks and look after them without taxes endlessly rising.

Unless we’re advocating for all UK women of child bearing age to go on a mass pregnancy extravaganza then immigration is the only answer close to reality.

Back to reality
We need to honestly face and publicly debate both issues alongside each other. Warts and all. This issue is the same across all of Europe so we’re hardly alone.
Cross-cutting challenges are the stark reality we face.

I get the impression that small boats and immigration is more a wedge-issue political-football based upon the fact immigration has increased under successive governments for decades and nobody appears to be effective at tackling the issue beyond lip service and token gestures.

It’s almost like newspapers get money for rage-bait and politicians use it to make people afraid so you don’t see them picking your pocket. 😆. Got to have boogey man alter all.

If you believe the current narrative of people from another nation = bad, i have a small to medium sized boat to sell you.

Please note this is predominantly satire on a slow work day.

Regular reminder that there is a [law enforcement agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Force) directly responsible for border security which has [a fleet of boats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKBF_42m_Customs_Cutter) and that anyone advocating the RN should do the job instead of that force is not worth listening to.