Emperor@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Downing Street denied this. The prime minister’s press secretary said: “From our part there isn’t really a day to lose when people are dying in the Channel having been induced into boats by gangs.”
I love that they stop the blame train there when it’s the government that forced them to rely on gangs by not having a proper immigration policy in places and under-investing in the immigration service so claims can be processed quicker. They have, essentially, created this crisis then come up with a ridiculous “solution”.
“People are ultimately breaking into our country"
That phrase isn’t used in this article.
0x815@feddit.de 8 months ago
The Guardian must have changed that. I copied and pasted the phrase from the article. (They also say now that Downing Street ‘denied this’ instead of ‘categorically denied this’, a minor edit).
I changed the title now.
Emperor@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Cheers. It’s weird that they’d remove it as it is suitably bizarre.
0x815@feddit.de 8 months ago
Yeah, it would be interesting to know why the Guardian did it.
Emperor@feddit.uk 8 months ago
If you Google it, you find a number of news articles (and us) and those pieces have all had the phrase removed. Something has gone wrong somewhere - it might be they were scammed by a fake Home Office spokesperson.