GB News guest Charlie Rowley certainly didn’t mince his words as he one glaring error with the new deportation scheme
A GB News guest was sparked fury in a fiery row over the ongoing migrant debate as the small boat migrant deportation scheme begins this week. During Tuesday’s visit (August 5) to the London studios, hosts Eamonn Holmes and Ellie Costello woke up the nation as they discussed the biggest stories hitting the headlines. It didn’t take long before conversation to the ongoing migrant crisis after the government released a statement warning anyone crossing the English Channel will face immediate detention and will return within days.
To get a clearer perspective on the issue, the Irish broadcaster welcomed Charlie Rowley onto the programme. The former Conservative political advisor argued that the scheme is doomed to fail after pointing out that the maximum number of migrants the UK can deport is 2,300 despite the UK welcoming more than 25,000 illegal migrants this year so far.
GB News sparked fury online over new migrant scheme (Image: GB News)
He fumed: “This is a lawyer’s field day because you’ll have people that turn up saying ‘I still have a claim’, or ‘I’m trying to seek asylum’ or ‘I have a genuine reason to be here’.
“And it’l take weeks to process, and that means that those people will still end up in UK hotels at the expense of the taxpayer because I dont think this country, which is being lead by a lawyer not by a leader, will have the gumption to take the bull by the horns and actually get on with deporting people who shouldn’t be here.”
Eamonn agreed that it was a “waste of public money” to invest further into the ‘Smash the Gangs’ campaign and insisted that the main priority should be the safety and security of British citizens. He added: “Look at the amount of money were spending just containing what’s going on here”.
Charlie argued: “It’s shifted from being an issue about fairness. People come into the country illegally, they get put up in a fourt or five star hotel, they get their £50 a week benefits where they can get their dental treatment or go and see an NHS doctor for free and get any kind of treatment sorted.
“They are able to work, it seems, illegally whether it’s through Deliveroo, working through nail bars or through hairdressers, whatever it is that the Home Office claims it is cracking down on, that is a pull factor and it does cost a lot.
Former political advisor Charlie Rowley sparked fury on GB News (Image: GB News )
“The government has said that if you try again, you won’t have a case, but how will you know? Because people throw their passports over the dinghy’s on the way here. People turn up and claim that they’re a particular age when they’ve got beards longer than mine and a receeing hairline.
“People aren’t who they say they are. We’ve been too much of a soft touch, there’s no deterrant, there’s too much of a pull factor and that’s why it won’t work.”
It didn’t take long before viewers flooded to X – formerly known as Twitter – to share their frustrations online, with one user posting: “Shouldn’t be taxpayers money spent on this, never.”
Another agreed: “Actions speak louder than words. And so far all we get from leftiests is all talk. No action. I don’t care what the government says they’re going to do. Actions are what matters.”
A third chimed in with: “Absolute farce and the whole country knows it! Why does this government think it can take us all for fools? Do they not realise they are the fools and we all know it!”
