//Thanks LB. In that case the blame can be laid firmly at the door of the thousands of economic migrants coming from the safety of France and posing as asylum seekers.//
Exactly. There is no reason for anybody to travel from France to the UK by unconventional means to claim asylum. The rate at which they are arriving means that no government, of any persuasion, can hope to deal “expeditiously” with their bogus claims. France won’t hear of them being returned there (and in fact are often actively assisting their safe passage to UK waters).
The asylum system is not fit for purpose. It is now being used to facilitate large numbers of people moving to the UK “to start a new life” because they don’t like it where they are. Once here there is little to no chance of them being removed. This would be the same whatever political party held power.
The only way to deal with this expeditiously is to prevent them landing in the first place. Since the hand-wringers that infest government and the Civil Service will not countenance this either, we’re stuck with it and these people – who are simply jumping to the front of the queue of people trying to get here legally – will continue to arrive. But let’s not pretend it would be any different under a Labour administration.