Britain's Posterboys

Britain is an island, but you'd never know it

The British government has launched an ad campaign in Albania to attempt and disuade Albanians from crossing the English Channel and entering Britain.

Ad campaigns are useless when the British government has refused to change policies and the rate of immigration to the country only increases year-on-year. Channel crossings were up over 230% between 2020 and 2021, and increased a further 60% from 2021 to 2022.

Additionally, Albanians made up only 27% of those who crossed the English Channel in 2022, with thousands of Iranians, Afghans and Iraqis also making the trip. As Europe emerges from winter the numbers are likely to surge, with most Albanians arriving between May and October in each of the previous years mentioned.

If the British government wanted to stop the crossings, it could. The British state is one of the most well resourced in history and has more than enough vessels and manpower to tow these ships away from British shores.

Net migration into Britain was over 606,000 in 2022, and total arrivals topped 1.2 million people. The Home Office predicts that migration for 2023 will also top one million arrivals and that migration numbers are likely to remain steady into the future.

And while legal migration is as simple to solve as the cessation of visa issuance, Britain could also resolve the Channel crossing issues by deporting the Albanians to Kosovo. Albania and Kosovo share an ethnic profile, as both are majority Albanian, and the two nations have a freedom of movement agreement.

Britain is active in KFOR and therefore has the right to fly military planes into Slatina Air Base. If Albania will not take its citizens back the British state could deport them on military flights. Britain also has access to bases in Djibouti where it could deport the thousands of Eritreans and Sudanese, bases in Bahrain and Qatar where the several thousand Arabs from Iraq and Egypt could be sent for holding, and significant land in Cyprus could be transformed into a migrant holding area.

Migration is not a fact of life, nor is having to accept living around tens of thousands of unvetted military age men.

Migration continues because the people running the British state want it to continue.