More than 800 migrants cross English Channel in new daily record

The Home Office have revealed that a record 828 migrants were intercepted while crossing the English Channel on Saturday 21 August.

Over 12,000 people have crossed the channel in 2021 however that figure is expected to rise due to the warm weather conditions.

[jeanwood]

If I remember didn’t Boris say “ We will get our borders back “ during the run up to the Gen. Election.

[aarondavids]

Along with the 20, 000 Afghans .. that’s now another 800 people we’ve got to find homes for. Another 800 that won’t get jobs and turn to crime to make money. Another 800 unchecked persons without ID another 800 whom we don’t know their backgrounds. Meanwhile British veterans living on our streets and the government does nothing

[jacko]

I can't wait to be culturally enriched by all these doctors, nurses, and engineers.

[jontalbot]

Border force should remove "border force" from their boats and replace it with "channel taxi service"

[jimmyduncan]

Until it starts to affect people living up leafy drives with security gates nothing will be done 🤷🏻‍♂️

[crumpetsbuttered]

This is getting ridiculous. That's 188000 migrants by Xmas at this rate, how fare is it to all the migrants and asylum seekers who have taken the legal process and families in this country that are struggling to get affordable housing.

[Mitchlom]

Can’t wait to set another new record, hopefully we can get gold

[Wilksey]

No wonder why the waiting list for a council house in London is 20 years

[robertsmith]

Nice to see that our Border Force are protecting our Borders from people entering the UK illegally. Think we need an overhaul of our Top Civil Servants and some MPs' as they do not seem to be up to the job.

[clarence_claymore.]

The government won’t pay the Gurkhas what they are owed but we can spend on fuel for this taxi service . What a disgrace

[curioticgamer]

If their coming into the country illegally, why aren’t they facing any Consequences?

[jontalbot]

At some point this will cause Boris and Patel to have innocent British blood on their hands

[dovidell]

ex- service personnel living on the streets, and we leave the drawbridge open for ( in some cases), unvetted cultural enrichment - talk about dysfunctional government

[adamweston]

55 million given to the French for sweet f.a., just think about how all that money could have been spent on building new council houses for the less fortunate here.the crazy thing is that the immigrants all have iPhones and nice clothes, I can't afford an iPhone and I have to buy the majority of my clothes from charity shops, it's god damn annoying and before anyone says it... I'm not a racist but I do believe in putting your countrymen and women first.

[Elcrispo]

This government needs to be removed ASAP,

[ScrannibalLecter]

“Migrants rescued” that’s my favourite one 🤔😂 “trespasser rescued from bank vault” 😂😂😂

[dalsie]

Boris is more worried about boilers we are doomed

[vault]

I never considered myself a racist until this year

[bruceybrew]

Absolutely disgusting how is this still going on. Wtf do we pay taxes for

[freddiejohnson]

Way to go breaking a record. Do they get a gold medal or is it like a guiness world record and meaningless?