Nigel Farage warned that a mix of despair and rising anger over the government's handling of illegal small-boat migrants creates a genuine threat to public order unless migration is dealt with swiftly. He said the contract between government and people needs renewal and called for leaving the European Court of Human Rights, arguing taxpayers have had enough. Farage accused Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron of colluding to support mass migrant crossings. A Prime Minister's spokesman countered that the government is taking serious, practical action to address migration, relieve pressure on public services and avoid past failed solutions.
The mood in the country around this issue is a mix between total despair and rising anger. And I would say this, that without action, without somehow the contract between the government and the people being renewed, without some trust coming back, then I fear deeply that that anger will grow. In fact, I think there is now, as a result of this, a genuine threat to public order. "And that is the very last thing that we want."
It makes him angry frankly, because it's unfair on ordinary working people who pay the price from the cost of hotels to our public services struggling under the strain. "That's why we're taking the action we are, to recognise the strength of feeling about this. "The pressure that it puts on public services and that's why we're taking serious practical action to address this issue, not just returning back to the old gimmicks, the old solutions that failed to deal with this.
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