Conservative (Tory) Party Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson suggested illegal migrants dissatisfied with the quality of the free accommodation they are receiving at taxpayers’ expense should “f*ck off” back to France,” where most of them were staying before paying criminal people-smugglers to bring them across the English Channel on small boats.
“If they don’t like barges then they should f**k off back to France,” he said, referring to a floating hotel where the government is attempting to house some adult male migrants as a slightly cheaper alternative t proper land-based hotels.
“These people come across the Channel in small boats… if they don’t like the conditions they are housed in here then they should go back to France, or better not come at all in the first place,” he added.
The Tories have always had a captive minority of politicians like Anderson who, like the party’s voters, are more socially conservative and hold stronger views on issues like immigration than the party leadership.
Anderson has only been given a higher profile in the party recently, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seeks to deflect from the fact the Tories have achieved nothing in terms of stopping the growing boats crisis while massively increasing legal mass migration.
Many of the migrants supposed to be sent to the barge have already gotten out of it as a result of activist lawyers, usually taxpayer-funded, lodging appeals complaining their clients are “severely afraid of water” – somewhat unconvincingly, considering how many arrived in Britain by sea.
