When the historically anti-immigrant-prejudiced Daily Express turns its prejudice into concern - you know it's purely for right wing purposes more than humanitarian ones.IMMIGRANT DEATHS:
Exploiting the issues of deaths of the very same immigrants they denigrate daily is hypocrisy itself - and when that 'misinformation' turns into blatant 'lies', think how much that would upset the families of those lost.
The Express Journalist/s that made that assertion either did that in ignorance, in which case a full and honest apology from them as well as from the Editor of the Express, or in full knowledge of the facts which would mean an even greater strain on those families.
The Express's deliberately misleading figure of 180 people as having lost their lives in the channel relates to the total losses dating back to 2018 - most of which it, failed to mention, were in the disastrous 14 years in Tory power until July 2024.
Where the lie lies clearly in their 'factual' comment was by saying "As boats' death toll SOARS...PM told to get a grip of human tragedy? Well, unfunded and unpaid GB2GB has the actual documented figures for deaths between 2018 - 2026 making a mockery of unreliable printed news - then amplified by BBC news channels 24/7 repeatedly covering the biased 'news' over and over again. are:
CHANNEL DEATHS, verified figures
2018-2025 combined: 162 deaths on the Migration Observatory series cited by Full Fact.
2024: 73 deaths. (under both Tory and Labour control)
2025: 24 deaths.
2026: 17 deaths recorded by 2 August, according to the Migration Observatory figure supplied to Full Fact.
What is also factual is the number of immigrants on these boats started at:
1/. 2018: 7 immigrants per boat
2/. 2025: 62 immigrants per boat
You could reasonably consider that average boat occupancy has increased almost ninefold since 2018, and independent research has identified extreme overcrowding as one mechanism contributing to Channel fatalities leading predictably to more immigrant deaths per boat.
For The Labour Government To Have "GOT TO GRIPS" With Immigrant Boats And Deaths' Labour Would Have to Have Governed From 2018 Onwards - instead Of The Disastrous 5 Tory Prime Minister's MAY, JOHNSON, TRUSS AND SUNAK Over those 6 chaotic Years?
STOP THE BOATS:
The persistent cry from the Tory party and its multi-billionaire media owners has been since Labour party came to power 'STOP THE BOATS' (and used once again by the historically anti-immigrant-prejudiced Daily Express) has now been shown up - once again - by the totally unfunded and unpaid GB2GB to be a 'can of worms'.
THE TRUTH IS THIS:
Since 2018 the 'last' thing the Tory government ever did was 'stop the boats' - as data shows here:
2020: 641 boats
2021: 1,034 boats
2022: 1,110 boats
2023: 602 boats
2024: 695 boats (If we use 50% for Tory and 50% for Labour that equals 348 per government)
2025: 671 boats
2026: 275 boats up to 26 September 2026
1/. Conservatives couldn't 'stop the 3735 boats' their 5.5 years
2/. Labour 'reduced the boats' down to 1294 in their 2.5 years
Who Needed To Get A Grip, Who Needed To Stop The Boats, Who Failed To Do Both:
*THE CONSERVATIVES*
Since Labour came to power FACTS have completely smothered mass right wing propaganda. The Tory Party are totally unelectable - and Reform are totally unpalatable for this Left Wing Leaning PUBLIC?
GB2GB - Who Else Speaks For British Decency - Not Foreign Billionaires Un-British Public Interests that only benefit British Business?