Stop Calling Them “Refugees”: The Dinghy Migrants Are Illegal, Not in Danger

 

Britain’s southern coastline is being invaded, not by desperate families fleeing war, but by young men with smartphones, designer clothes, and a sense of entitlement. They are not fleeing danger. They are shopping for a destination. And we, the British people, are paying for our own humiliation. Let’s be clear: these migrants are not coming straight from warzones. They are arriving from France, a safe, wealthy, first-world nation with a welfare state, functioning courts, and human rights protections. The moment they stepped onto French soil, they were safe. If their aim were true asylum, they would claim it there. But they don’t. Because their goal is not safety, it’s Britain’s generous benefits, housing, and lax enforcement. Every dinghy crossing is illegal. There is no “grey area” here. British law is explicit: asylum must be claimed at the first safe country you reach. Travelling through multiple safe countries, destroying documents, and paying criminal smugglers to ferry you across the Channel is not “seeking refuge”. It’s forum-shopping for the best welfare package. And look at who’s coming. The vast majority are young men of fighting age. Where are the wives, the children, the elderly? If their homelands were truly so dangerous, why aren’t they staying to protect their families? These are not helpless victims, they are economic opportunists exploiting our softness and our political cowardice. The Left trots out the same tired clichés: “no one risks their life in a dinghy unless they’re desperate!” Wrong. People take risks when the reward is big enough. And Britain, thanks to weak borders and endless taxpayer-funded handouts, has made the reward irresistible. Free housing, free healthcare, cash benefits, and zero chance of deportation, who wouldn’t jump on a dinghy? This isn’t compassion. It’s national suicide. Every illegal migrant that makes it here sends a message back home: Britain is open, Britain is weak, Britain will roll over. And every time we allow it, more smugglers profit, more boats launch, and more lives are put at risk, not by “persecution back home”, but by our own failure to defend our borders. Stop the lies. Stop the hand-wringing. The dinghy migrants are not refugees. They are not in danger. They are illegally entering our country, and they are laughing at a government too spineless to stop them. Britain is not a hostel. It is a sovereign nation. Act like it. Turn the boats back. Detain and deport. Make it clear that Britain will not be a free ride for anyone willing to break our laws. Because until we do, the invasion will continue and our leaders will have betrayed every honest citizen who still believes this island belongs to us.