00:00By working with our European neighbours, we can stop the small boats crisis.
00:05St Margaret's Bay in Dover is usually more familiar with holiday makers than policy makers.
00:11But the leader of the Liberal Democrats has become the latest politician to take a trip
00:16to the beach to announce his plans that he believes will stop the so-called small boats
00:22crisis.
00:23This is the only way to solve the problem and by the way it would save the taxpayer
00:28billions.
00:29The Lib Dems' plan is to join a new EU migration pact that would allow the UK to return asylum
00:37seekers to the first EU country that they entered.
00:40Within the last six months, both Reform UK's Nigel Farage and Prime Minister Andy Burnham
00:46have headed to the port town to air out their migration plans.
00:50But Dover isn't exactly a Liberal Democrat stronghold.
00:54Has Dover become this sort of theatrical, performative place for politicians to come
01:00down and talk about small boat crossings, is that fair?
01:03No, the small boat crossing crisis is something that I think worries people in Dover.
01:08I think it worries people across Kent and across the country and we need to solve it.
01:12Now, the rain might have come out for Ed Davey, but will the support for his new plan here
01:18in Dover?
01:19I went to go speak to people up and down St Margaret's Bay to see if they really think
01:25his plans could change the tide.
01:27I don't think he'll do anything at all to stop the small boats crisis.
01:31I don't believe anything he says.
01:32Why's that?
01:34Because he's just full of rubbish.
01:36Even if it was decided it was necessary for some of them, or many of them, to go back
01:43to their homes, it's just not that easy.
01:46Many of their countries won't accept them.
01:49Many of them have nothing to go back to except destitution.
01:52Europe should be working together to get rid of them all together. Ed Davey's not going
01:57to get rid of them. No one's going to get rid of them. The only person that's got a chance
02:02is Nigel Flourge.
02:04If it was easy, we'd be doing it. The politicians want to please the people because they want
02:09to get re-elected and they want to win votes.
02:11It won't be long until Kent will be headed to the polling booth to vote for their new councils.
02:16But is this yet another major party leader trying to win over the White Cliffs?
02:21Megan Shaw in Dover.
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