Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was uncompromising about border control and stopped deadly migrant boats arriving altogether, almost certainly saving hundreds of lives by doing so, and now he offers words of advice for the United Kingdom as it fails to do the same.
Breitbart After Tony Abbott became prime minister, Australia no longer had to embark on weekly rescue operations for Muslim boat people at sea. By turning back the boats that did attempt to land, while refusing entry to anyone without visa, guess what happened? The Muslim boat invaders stopped coming.
Successful border control is the most humane possible approach and saves lives but can only be achieved with a proactive and unwavering action, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has reminded the United Kingdom. The British ‘Conservative’ government has been floundering with a series of half-hearted plans to tackle the migrant boat crisis, but has failed to make any serious impact despite the political energy expended on the product.
Abbott, who successfully shut down boat migrants in Australia, ending the deadly people smuggler trade which killed at least 1,000 people in the years leading up to his crackdown laid out the key points in an article in Britain’s Daily Telegraph on Friday. Making the key arguments bullet-point clear, Abbott wrote that the UK must enact “boat turn-backs to stop people leaving for Australia in the first place, offshore processing so that those who were picked up at sea never made it to Australia, and temporary visas so that those who did get here couldn’t stay.”
Successful border control is the most humane possible approach and saves lives but can only be achieved with a proactive and unwavering action, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has reminded the United Kingdom. The British ‘Conservative’ government has been floundering with a series of half-hearted plans to tackle the migrant boat crisis, but has failed to make any serious impact despite the political energy expended on the product.
Australia Migrant Policy Success: One Year Without A ‘Successful People Smuggling Venture’ http://t.co/IFy6EvZaIz pic.twitter.com/hKlGfNnovD
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Abbott, who successfully shut down boat migrants in Australia, ending the deadly people smuggler trade which killed at least 1,000 people in the years leading up to his crackdown laid out the key points in an article in Britain’s Daily Telegraph on Friday. Making the key arguments bullet-point clear, Abbott wrote that the UK must enact “boat turn-backs to stop people leaving for Australia in the first place, offshore processing so that those who were picked up at sea never made it to Australia, and temporary visas so that those who did get here couldn’t stay.”
This was “crucially” under a unified command structure with military leadership, Abbott added, saying that he also launched a media blackout on boat arrivals to prevent the media becoming an advertising service for people smugglers to their would-be customers.
Australia was uncompromising on boat turnbacks in those years, Abbott wrote — something the United Kingdom government refuses to even try — noting even a migrant boat coming into trouble at sea wouldn’t get its occupants into Australian territory.
“When boats were scuttled, forcing our navy to pick up their occupants – putting would-be migrants on to unsinkable lifeboats just outside Indonesia’s 12-mile limit with only enough fuel to make it back to Java,” he said.
Operation Sovereign Borders: Australia Returns Sri Lankans From ‘People-Smuggling’ Boat https://t.co/RErf0vkPfe pic.twitter.com/0isXD4UCZl
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Tough love it may have been, but huge numbers died trying to break into Australia in the years before the policy launched and those deaths ended immediately with the destruction of the people smugglers’ business model. Abbott wrote in his Telegraph op-ed:
Stopping the boats was also the only way to stop the deaths. As long as arriving illegally by boat was the ticket to a better life in a better country, my government reasoned, the people smugglers would have a product to sell, with customers prepared to take their chances on the open sea. “Taking the sugar off the table” upset all the usual moralisers, but it was actually the most moral thing to do in the circumstances we faced.
The Indonesians were “furious” at his approach, he said, but didn’t feel too bad about it. After all, in his words, “if they’d enforced their own laws, we would never have had a crisis on our borders” — an important point the British government does not appear to have internalised.
The UK recently signed off on a half-billion payout to France to bribe their government into patrolling their own beaches, and prevent migrant boats from crossing better. Whether the country will get value for money from this enormous delivery of cash to the French government is yet to be seen, but just last weekend six migrants were killed when their overloaded rubber boat foundered in the Channel.
Not only did Abbott send the illegal Muslim invaders back to Indonesia in big orange boats controlled by Australia, he effectively stopped the illegal people smugglers from even attempting to dump their human cargo in Australia.
Jack Rider says
the answer to the question of why the Brits wont emulate the Ozzy method is simply that they dont want to.
The Tasmanian Devil says
He can.
He WON’T.
Leftist DON’T!
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Why cant britain do the same. ANSWER THE MIGRATIONPACKTS 1 AND 2 WONT LET THEM DO A SINGLE THING AGAINST THE INVASION OR INVADER: read these damm things and you can save time writting articles like this then this is allover the westworld so and most have sighned these unholy packts. To write articles like this is like ignoring the problem (letting them in through politics) and makes it less important. The problem is that our politics have and are selling us out for whatever reason they have. Write about that then its way more important and it is also the reason for this article.
Nefarious says
Subterfuge. Charley and caseloads of Saudi cash.
Paul says
Australians are by nature tough people & won’t take nonsense etc whereas the U.K. is too lax ,
Going back many years with this gentle attitude etc.
today the difference is striking & NOT surprising.