Blogger’s Note: Migrants are displaced workers. As such, they are victims of capitalism. A migrant is a worker who has had his entire root-system (in his homeland) torn-up and spread asunder. A migrant is a worker stripped of union protection, good pay, proper working conditions and hours, healthcare, and rights. The rootless worker is told their is easy money and free stuff just “over there” – and all they have to do is leave their country and enter another one without following legal procedure. This illegality does not matter – or so they are told – as the Human Rights Act guarantees immunity from prosecution. Furthermore, a migrant, once arrived, has to be given homes, healthcare, work, transport, and schools for their children. All free and provided for by the taxpayer of the host country they have randomly arrived in.

Since 1991, the US has demanded that the West strip away its Socialism and implement the brutality of free market economics. The Western worker has seen their unions smashed, their housing sold off, their welfare reduced, their free education abolished, and their free healthcare (earned after fighting in WWII) privatised and took away. Working conditions have deteriorated whilst pensions have plummeted in value. To cap all this suffering the retirement age has risen to 67 – and all this under a Labour government! The tax burden is used not to finance the rights of the workers who earn it and pay it – but rather is used to support various rogue nations around the world (Israel and Ukraine spring to mind). When all this is finally cognised – the cheap labour then arrives as some type of sick joke – usually in dangerous rubber dinghys along the coatst.

This is the cheap labour the bourgeoisie is using to replace the UK worker. The migrant is a displaced worker operating through the “false consciousness” of greed (workers who choose to become migrants should take responsibility for their actions – and the suffering their choice causes others). Why would a worker from one country decide to travel illegally to another country and deprive the indigenous worker of his rights? What a ridiculous situation. The migrant, however, is a victim of predatory capitalism, as are we all. It is not the fault of the migrant that the bourgeoisie is using him to attack the settled workforce of another country. It is the bourgeoisie that is to blame and which needs to change it’s policy. Attacking a migrant is like beating up a cancer patient – because cancer is feared and not liked. This is not the correct dialectical response. Cancer is not the moral fault of the sufferer – but is a malfunction of the physical body that needs to be treated with medicine.

It is the national policy of the UK government that needs to be politically attacked and altered. The problem is that this involves class politics and a battle of wills. The importation of migrants must be stopped at its political source. Anti-union laws must be repealed. US hegemony must be kept out of the UK. Of course, the Royal Navy could deter Channel crossings by its presence and the RNLI does not need to risk the lives of its crews. Assisting criminals does not happen in any other area of society. Sanctions should be imposed on France if it continues to facilitate mass migration to the UK. These are just ideas on the ground – but all it would take is a change of policy at national level. The masked men you see in the video above are known as “Black Bloc” in the UK. I think this is Dover. Notice they are wearing black and there are no national flags. This is because these individuals are “anarchists” who have taken the side of the far-right in the migrant issue. They seek to intimate and attack migrants (and anyone who helps them) as they land.

How odd it is that a group that does not believe in the concept of “Nation States” is prepared to act in a highly “organised” and “structured” manner to protect the integrity of a Nation State – the vary existence of which it deems unnecessary. Surely, an argument can be made that the migrants are acting in a manner that can be described as “anarchistic” – in the sense that they strive to circumvent the rules and regulations of the UK’s Nation State – rules they do not wish to follow or uphold. What is interesting is that the UK far-right is only luke warm about Black Bloc – recognising their good optics but questioning their commitment to race-based politics. I cannot believe how many young men were mobilised – or why the police allowed the threatening presence. Either way, two ports refused to land the migrants in the last few days – something that has never happened before. The migrants need to be looked after – but the policy of moving cheap labour across borders needs to be stopped. Showing solidarity with migrants at ground level – whilst striving to end the policy at national level – appears to be the correct approach. ACW (9.9.2026)

Ports denied request to land 120 migrants in RNLI boats

8.9.2026

Nikki Mitchell,South of England home affairs correspondentand

Stuart Rust – South of England

Requests to accept the landing of RNLI boats carrying 120 migrants intercepted off the Isle of Wight were refused by both Portsmouth harbour and Southampton Port.

When the migrants were landed on Sunday at Eastney, in Langstone Harbour, anti-migrant protesters blocked the road.

Associated British Ports (ABP), which operates Southampton, said it was not the closest port and it “did not have suitable reception facilities available”.

The BBC understands the King’s Harbour Master (KHM) Portsmouth also declined a coastguard request, but it would not comment directly on operational matters.

The protest followed a separate demonstration at the Port of Dover on the previous day.

The Langstone Harbour Master said the migrants were “recovered” onto two RNLI vessels in the vicinity of the Nab Tower.

They said they would have travelled at “quite a slow speed” to Langstone because the vessels were so overloaded.

An RNLI spokesperson said: “We are working with the relevant parties to understand the decision to deny access, and we are disappointed with the nature of the communication with our crews, who voluntarily give their time to save the lives of others at sea.”

The narrow peninsula at Eastney has only one road leading in and out, which demonstrators used to block coaches carrying the migrants from leaving the area.

It led to a stand-off that lasted into the early hours of Monday.

Portsmouth City Council said it was a “completely unsuitable location to bring the boats ashore” and brought “needless disruption” to the area.

Langstone Harbour Master Billy Johnson said the coastguard was coordinating “a search and rescue operation” and there was “no reason not to accept” the landing of the vessels at Eastney.

“The problem was managing the public order aspect that was also taking place and the geography of the area made that very challenging for the police,” he said.

“This is a new thing in the Solent and the degree to which it attracted public interest and the speed at which the public reaction was mobilised was unusual and surprising.

“The way the emergency services mobilised was really effective, with the police, Border Force, coastguard, the RNLI, ambulance and fire service working completely together – all of whom were hindered by the activities of protesters.”

ABP said it received an enquiry about landing recovered migrants.

It said in a statement: “We had to decline the enquiry as the Port did not have suitable reception facilities available.

“If there had been a safety of life at sea issue where Southampton was the closest port or if we had received a formal direction from the relevant authority then we would have played a role.

“Neither was the case in this situation.”

‘Fear and tension’

The leader of Portsmouth City Council, Steve Pitt, said: “The Home Office has some serious questions to answer about their lack of planning, inconsistent decision-making and ultimately, poor judgement.”

In the House of Commons yesterday, Dame Caroline Dinenage, Conservative MP for Gosport, referred to the boat containing 120 migrants in the Solent as an “extraordinary mega dinghy”.

She said: “MPs across the Solent region were scrambling for reliable information with complete radio silence from the Home Office. As a result we weren’t in a position to calm fear and tension.”

Responding for the government, Home Office minister Sarah Jones said the department would “learn any lessons that we need to” following the weekend’s protests.

Asked why Eastney had been chosen as the landing site, she said: “We are of course making sure we understand what exactly happened in that circumstance.”