So 3,567 Migrants Crossed After Starmer's Big France Deal... Guess How Many Got Sent Back?

By HOAR Team 1 September, 2025 5 mins read 3267 Views

Zero.

Not one. Not a single bloody person has been kicked out under Keir Starmer's much-hyped "one-in, one-out" arrangement with Emmanuel Macron, despite 3,567 dinghy migrants arriving since they shook hands on it. I mean, what exactly did we think was going to happen here?

This bombshell completely overshadowed yesterday's government attempt to look like they actually have a clue about the illegal migration mess. Ministers announced they're temporarily stopping refugees from bringing their families over, and Sir Keir made some noise about wanting to close asylum hotels before his original 2029 deadline because he "completely gets" public anger.

Right. Sure he does.

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The Numbers Don't Lie (Unlike Politicians)

Here's what we know: more than 100 people have supposedly been detained since this France deal kicked in. Number 10 even shared videos showing staff escorting people after they arrived across the Channel - you know, for the optics. But when officials were pressed on actual deportations? Crickets.

The Home Office is currently housing around 32,000 asylum seekers in over 200 hotels across Britain. That's costing us how much exactly? And we're supposed to believe this "one-in, one-out" deal is working?

Yesterday Sir Keir went on BBC Radio Five and said: "It's a really serious issue. We have to have control of our borders, and I completely get it." When pressed about when these migrant hotels will actually shut, he replied they'd get rid of them "by the end of the Parliament" but he'd "like to bring that forward."

Cool. So sometime between now and never, basically.

Farage's Nuclear Option vs Starmer's... What Exactly?

Last month Nigel Farage unveiled his "Operation Restoring Justice" plan - aiming to deport up to 600,000 undocumented migrants over five years. It includes withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights and scrapping the 1951 UN Refugee Convention entirely. Even detention centres for women and children.

Extreme? Absolutely. But at least it's an actual plan with actual numbers.

Starmer's response was predictably sanctimonious: "The difference here is between an orderly sensible way of actually fixing a problem we inherited from the Tories or fanciful arrangements that are just not going to work." He called Reform "just the politics of grievance" who "feed on grievance" and "don't want the problem solved."

Mate, you've solved exactly zero problems so far.

Cooper's "Radical" Reforms (Spoiler: They're Not)

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced yesterday that refugees will be banned from bringing families to the UK - around 20,000 people come here on refugee family reunion visas per year. She also said the controversial Article 8 of the ECHR should be "interpreted differently."

Cooper told the Commons: "We should be clear that international law is important. But we also need the interpretation of international law to keep up with the realities and challenges of today's world."

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp accused Cooper of "living in a parallel universe." Even Labour's own Graham Stringer pointed out these measures "don't really deal with the fact that many migrants are not coming from war-torn countries, they're coming from France, which isn't persecuting them."

Reform MP Lee Anderson was more blunt: "Starmer continues to open teh floodgates for hundreds of illegals each day."

The Epping Mess Continues

Remember The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex? It became a flashpoint this summer after two of its migrant guests were charged with sexual offences. The local council won a High Court bid to block migrants from being housed there.

But guess what happened next? The Court of Appeal overturned the injunction after a Home Office appeal last week.

Lee Anderson again: "Starmer makes hollow claims while refusing to close Epping. Hypocrite."

Meanwhile, carpenter Jimmy Hillard, 52, from Loughton got an eight-week suspended sentence for assaulting a police officer at a Bell Hotel protest on Friday. The guy's probably wondering what the point of following the law even is anymore.

Murder Suspect Gets to Keep His Cake Shop

And just to add insult to injury, here's an exclusive that'll make your blood boil: Carlos Kassimo Dos Santos, 33, gets to stay in Britain despite being wanted for murder in Portugal.

This guy was jailed for 14 years in his absence in 2016 over a gang killing. Portugal tried to extradite him, but the High Court said no - apparently they couldn't guarantee him a retrial and couldn't prove he fled justice to come here.

What's he doing now? Running Kings & Queens Dessert outlet in Leeds, which just won "The Best Dessert Shop in West Yorkshire." You literally cannot make this stuff up.

Santos was 18 when accused of being part of a group who killed a gang rival near Lisbon. He claims he didn't know he was jailed and didn't realize he had to notify authorities when he moved to Britain to live near his dad.

Sure. Totally believable.

So there you have it. We've got a "one-in, one-out" deal that's actually "thousands-in, zero-out," asylum hotels that might close by 2029 if we're lucky, and murder suspects winning dessert shop awards. This is fine. Everything's fine.

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