How to stop small boats crossing the English Channel
Run one ferry a month from Le Harve to Portsmouth, that anybody can get on for free, no questions asked when boarding. Numbers would however be limited to the ferry's safe capacity. This might be increased if the car decks could be made safe for passengers. The People Smugglers will not be able to compete against this and will go out of business. Most of these small boats send an SOS when they get to UK waters so that they can be rescued. This is how we know how many people there are, (they aren't slipping in undiscovered). While a few people may still want to use the Smugglers, perhaps because they are in the 10% that are not granted asylum when discovered, (and hope to avoid the authorities as soon as they are close enough to land), this would become unaffordable without the large numbers to spread the cost. Instead of French Police patrolling the shores trying to spot the groups wanting to cross, and then not able to do anything, local counci...