The Channel migrant crisis is like an “invasion”, says William Clouston

“If you have 30,000 people just rocking up on the south coast this year, most people would just say ‘that’s pretty much an invasion’. It’s not intemperate to call it that.”

In the latest episode of the Our Current Predicament podcast series, William Clouston, leader of the Social Democrat Party, was kind enough to lend his time to a discussion surrounding the various ailments afflicting the British nation, such as the housing market.

Analysing the migrant crisis in the Channel, Mr Clouston quickly concluded that what is taking place amounts to an “invasion” of the British Isles, only without the gunpowder and warships. Perhaps this is because of the sheer lack of a military or border control counter-offensive, which so far this year has enticed more than 10,000 illegal immigrants to set foot on the south coast of England, our homeland.

Mr Clouston correctly identified the cause and the solution to this seemingly endemic problem:

“It’s mind-blowing. The political establishment, if you include the Lib Dems, Labour, and the Tories, apart from the noises the Tories occasionally make around elections – their views on this are pretty much exactly the same.”

The “noise” he is referring to is the great General Election Delusion; the Tories must gather the votes of socially conservative voters, such as the demographic makeup of Labour’s fallen red wall, without informing the electorate how favourable the blue badge holders are to open borders. At least Labour and the Lib Dems are honest about throwing opening the gates to all who flee the war-torn land of northern France.

In comparing this moment in history with previous flashpoints, Mr Clouston, in a statement considered off-limits by other political party leaders, spoke his thoughts:

“If you have 30,000 people just rocking up on the south coast – and it’s going to be 70,000 according to Alp Mehmet [of Migration Watch UK] – this year, most people would just say ‘that’s pretty much an invasion’. It looks like one, it’s pretty much obvious. It’s not intemperate to call it that because if you look at the age of the people that are turning up, pretty much…

“If you zoomed back 1,000 years, 2,000 years, the men of Kent would look at that and say ‘it looks pretty much like an invasion to me’.”

The largest amphibious invasion in history, D-Day, whose anniversary passed us by only yesterday, saw close to 156,000 fighting age men plant their boots into the sands of Normandy. Should Migration Watch UK be correct, then half of the numerical figure for D-Day would have been attained. Going back a thousand years, it has been estimated that William the Conqueror amassed an army of 4-7,000 knights to conquer the Anglo-Saxon kingdom and alter the English nation forever.

While some may perceive that Mr Clouston’s language is too fierce, alienating or ‘offensive’ (whatever that words means now), one need only look to the past to see what’s happening in the present.

Listen to the full episode here.