This is EXCELLENT, highly recommended. You'll rarely hear more debunking of popular myths and misapprehensions packed into 23 minutes...

@SimonJonesNews Good pic

@TonyBar16486136 @Telegraph MUCH cheaper (and much easier) than any forced repatriation. That's one of the main reasons why the Home Office (and in fact, govts of most countries around the world) nearly always aim first for a voluntary repatriation if they think they can get it.

@_celia_bedelia_ Damn, you've got a lot of jackasses in your country.

@LabourAlexB Impressive... not. Probably too much of a risk that one of them would need to sound vaguely competent or – heaven forbid! – knowledgeable on the subject of migration and asylum if they had to speak.

@rafaeljames78 @SimonJonesNews Also, the fact that the persons to be saved are migrants does not diminish or qualify their **RIGHT** to be saved. 5/5

@rafaeljames78 @SimonJonesNews It would be in flat contradiction with the paramount **obligation** under international law to protect those in danger of being lost at sea, as well as with our customs and traditions as a seafaring nation of long standing. 3/3

@DavidCornDC You could have knocked me over with a feather. Absolutely the *last* thing I was expecting.

@DavidVeevers1 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@rafaeljames78 @SimonJonesNews Do you think people should be charged for their rescue costs? Perhaps you've already forgotten just how much governments of rich countries spent in the last 2 years on search and rescue missions for the Oceangate Titan and for Mike Lynch's superyacht the Bayesian?

@schwarz Monstrous.

@ShaunHutchings4 @SimonJonesNews There is next to no variation in SJ`s reporting of arrivals from one day to the next; only the numbers change. Unless and until SJ can find more varied and more imaginative ways of reporting his daily updates, I shall be sticking with this template reply. Sorry about that.

Eye-catching stat from Trevor Phillips in today's Times:

@SimonJonesNews As a very rough rule of thumb, voluntary repatriations are usually about twice as large as forced repatriations.

@twotate2 @SimonJonesNews Well apparently Starmer and Labour want you to hear MUCH more about their returns policy!