Piers Morgan
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Both illegal, with this ridiculous farce of these small boats popping up on the south coast from a channel from France.
All the time, when the weather's good, they just stream in hundreds, sometimes thousands a week illegally into the country.
But also legal migration and how we've abjectly mishandled that since really the turn of the century.
You can chart it back to the Tony Blair years when they pretty well opened the gates to everyone in Eastern Europe.
Way too many people came in way too fast.
And then after that, there's just been a complete lack of any form of control.
And we now have a situation where they've had to try and put the brakes on legal migration coming in because two years ago we had a net migration in this country of nearly a million people.
Now, it's not racist, as some people have tried to brand it, to say that that is alarming.
A country like ours, if you don't have an effective border, if you have 50,000, 60,000 people a year coming in as they are illegally on these boats, and then you have a net migration of legal migrants coming in of nearly a million people, the already crumbling infrastructure is going to come under, obviously, enormously higher pressure.
So it's been a series of governments, left and right, I have to say,
starting with the Blair government, with what they did with Eastern Europe, and then coming forward to successive conservative governments, and now the current Labour government, all of whom, in my opinion, have handled this so badly that inevitably we now have a lot of people in the country going, what the hell is going on?
By the way, if you walk out of here and you fall over and you break your leg, you'll get treatment quickly.
But the cost of it.
Well, hang on, we're still a very majority Christian country, right?
Still 40-odd percent of the country are Christians, right?
That's a fact.
There are nearly 50% of the country identify as Christian.
The more concerning thing for those who have faith is that nearly 40% now have no religious belief whatsoever.
Then we have a lot of other religions.
There's a slight amplification of, for example, the number of Muslims in the country.