A comment made about asylum seekers crossing the channel by a Talk TV presenter has provoked outrage.
James Whale has received a fierce backlash after saying the British Navy should point its “weaponry” at migrant boats to deter them from crossing the Channel.
It came as more than 60 people were feared dead after a boat carrying migrants was found off Cape Verde in West Africa.
He said live on Talk TV: “Sadly people die all over the world. It sounds terrible but someone’s got to say it. Quite frankly there are more people dying on the roads, I’d be worried about them.
“I am concerned that these people who are called migrants are nothing more than criminals. They are not migrants at all. They are paying enormous amounts of money to criminal gangs, to criminally come to this country and who knows what they’re going to do?
“Most of them seem to be breaking the law, running rackets, if this was a land border we would have the military there stopping people breaking in. We have a moat around this country. We should be able to deal with this quite easily. We should have the Navy in the Channel, we should be pointing our weaponry at these people coming here illegally.”
You can watch the clip below:
Talk TV shared the clip from Jeremy Kyle shows, and wrote: “Talk TV’s James Whale is trending on X for these comments on immigration. Should the British Navy point its guns at the boats?”
However, it has since been deleted from their website and social media channels.
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