Coastguards said a search and rescue operation was launched off Kent in response to"multiple incidents".
A spokesman said:"We are committed to safeguarding life around the seas and coastal areas of this country. "HM Coastguard is only concerned with preservation of life, rescuing those in trouble and bringing them safely back to shore, where they will be handed over to the relevant partner emergency services or authorities."Chris Philip, Minister for Immigration Compliance, said the government was urgently working with the French authorities to take tougher action.
He said:"France have stopped thousands of migrants this year and made more interceptions today, but the route has not been cut."Migrants have no need and no right to leave France which is a safe country with a well-functioning asylum system and attempt to come to the UK by illicit means.Number of people reaching the UK each month since July 2019
Figures include migrants intercepted in the English Channel or detained by Border Force after reaching the UK
Have them towed back
We introduce a travel ban but they can get through, typical.
Have the numbers reached 100,000 yet Priti? Oh, that's what we are waiting for? Remember the WASPI WOMEN, won't you?
Wow. BBC reporting this?! Whomever is responsible for being sensible will probably be fired.
Ram all of them, that may stop them .
Wow! BLMBBC have actually noticed this and reported it!
Heard an interview on LBC today, excuses from mass suicides, to too many illegals for the boat's crew to manage, cutters unable to sail to France because of rough seas, This is pure surrender to blackmail. Just stop them leaving France!
Sink the boats and let them swim back to France.
Surely Britain is already overflowing with doctors and engineers
Like Henley Royal Regatta with excitement...
Please make sure next time you report on something like this (there will be a next time) you include the word ILLEGAL as that is what they are.
Why is the bbc pushing this nonsense now? Is it to make up for the lack of question time and Farago being given air time?
We have to stop this, even if it means going to war with the French, UK needs to send a message to France and take military action against the French Navy.
Imagine after all that effort crossing to the UK then get killed by Covid-19 here
All the do-gooders on here! If you asked any of them to share their houses with one of these immigrants they’d run a fuckin mile! 😂😂
Not more fuckin doctors! 🤔🤔🤔
Send them back
BBC you’re a joke, for one you’re reporting on this 3 months too late but call yourself a news channel, and secondly stop sugar coating it, you know fully well there’s back hand deals being made with the government ‘allowing’ these illegal immigrants and covid across our border.
EVER HEARD OF THE “UN MIGRATION PACKED” WHICH OUR GOVERNMENT SIGNED UP TO BEHIND YOUR BACK WITHOUT EITHER YOUR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT!! YOU HAVE BEEN BETRAYED!!
Amazing this government for years said we will do anything to stop immigrants at airports etc but won’t try everything to keep out a virus that’s killing thousands coming through airports
If they don't like the country they're in then why don't they just... oh wait.
Their attempt was successful with the assistance of the border force boats 🧐
Il stand there see how many attempt it then
Piri not doing her stuff, as usual. No camera no Piri.
Could be some talented footballers aboard?
56.4 million people in UK in 1981. In 2020 the pop is 67.3. Thats 10 million more people or an extra 50 towns with a pop of 200,000. We're full. Our roads are full. Our houses are full, our public services & our welfare systems are exhausted. We are a tiny island, we cannot cope.
Target practice.
Not migrants. Illegal immigrants invading our shores.
when you destroy a country, expect people to flee it, if they flee to your country then so be it
Roll on winter 🤷♂️😁
Send Farage back on an empty boat and lock the gates.
Have we no mini subs in the channel?.... just asking..
Deflate the boats
We have to patrol the channel and turn them back they have left a safe country under the schengen rules and therefore have no right to claim asylum here
Even our bad covid response doesn't deter these - what else can we do to to stop them!
We should have a sniper on top of the white cliffs aimed at the hulls of these boats.
Attempt, so they never made it.
Sea mines? How else can we stop are country from being invaded? Because that's what's happening, Britain is continuously being invaded....
We must do more to stop these Invaders. Can we tow them back to France? Or set up a migrant base in the far north of Scotland so that they can be safe and fed and then return home.
This is news! More like the BBC has been shamed into reporting this, under duress though! Every boat is full of men! No women, no families, majority 20-30 yo men! What about only accepting an equal amount of males & females, that’s equality.
Attempt ? All they have to do is wait for a border force taxi.
Attempt 🤣
The UK struggles to maintain a decent quality of life for its legal citizens. As an island GB is full. Traffic can't get much worse. Unemployable gangland rabble are ruining our cities. Let's sort this out first.
What do you mean by attempt ? They get escorted by the French and then get picked up by UK border force the minute they reach UK waters, Taken in safely then put on coaches and taken to 4 star hotels. 100's every day. It's more of a daily routine than just attempts.
attempt ? they was brought in by the bloody free water taxi we run
Pump up the air in the boat for them, just on case there is a leak, and give them a big push towards home.
Channel migrants: Eight boats attempt crossing to UK
Strange the BBC never reported on the largest group of illegal immigrants we have in their 100,000s. But that doesn't fit your narrative
Send them back to Calais. They have fantastic accommodation there, too, don’t they?
When are these illegal migrants crossings going to stop and where are they being housed!!
All them french people can’t see any of these dinghies heading to the french beaches 😳REALLY
Another four star hotel to be requisitioned. Turn out all the homeless to make way for these money grabbing scroungers. Why don’t they stay in France,but they don’t want them any more than we do, but the free benefits here are bigger incentives, mugs that we are.
Holy shit, the bots are livid!
They come for freedom...free healthcare, free housing, free unemployment benefit...
Prime candidates for Bill Gates and his Covid vaccination.
If border control need a dingy popper I’m definitely available.
Doing Farage's work for him now BBC?
Poor sods landed, saw a newspaper, and ran off again. Sorry if that's in bad taste, but I just can't believe this mess the Govt has got us in.
Let’s hope they are given their welcome packs on arrival. I hope they enjoy their 4 * hotel.
Eight boats attempt crossing to UK. Does that mean they didn't make it, or that Border Force picked them up, brought them safely to our shores, checked them, fed them and took them to a 4 star hotel where they can have free medical and dental care plus £40pw pocket money?
*illegal immigrants
Send them back
Are they crossing the channel and enter the UK illegally?
But doesn't France offer asylum? almost like they're coming here for something else...
Wow. The MSM the BBC actually reporting on this. It’s only been happening for months and now they decided to cover the story. Only in excess of 4000 already here. Abolish the license now.
This is the demographic reality of where we are because of immigration
Bye bye.
It's not a migrant boat, it's a French Rib and the french are encouraging these totally safe and unashamedly economic illegal migrants to leave the affluent and supportive EU to be a drain on our benefits system.
Illegal immigrants, not wanted, not needed, not welcome.
More dog whistling for the gammon, I see.
Boris and Priti need to organise another D Day to the French beaches. DEPORTATION DAY. Take all the illegals back to the EU 27 countries who we are not part of anymore they are there problem not ours.
Why on earth they would want to come here at the moment escapes me.
Why are they being brought to the UK surely they should be sent back to France 💁♂️
Nigel_Farage was reporting this months ago? Why you not covering the issue of the french Navy dropping these poor people off in English waters? Rules are simple regarding refugees last time I checked?
Might be worth investing in some marine mines.
So now you call them 'migrants' ... Not so long ago you called them 'refugees' or 'women and children'.
BBC turning into Nigel Farage I see
“Migrants have no need and no right to leave France which is a safe country with a well-functioning asylum system and attempt to come to the UK by illicit means.” - This.
8 boats of terrified people from a place with different coloured cloth on the flag their rulers chose.
You bombed the Middle East and North Africa, you are getting immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa.
Makes you wonder who’s watching the other side of the channel 🤔
More of this please then the idiots will forget about me! Thanks BBC - your cheques in the post.
Eight boats of illegal immigrants, we should send them back to France.
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