I’m not so sure. If the boats stopped overnight the Labour government would be very happy and would shout about it. It would be a huge political win. I don’t doubt that ministers and a few Labour backbenchers pull their hair out about the influx of all these young men and their bogus asylum claims. In private I expect they say all sorts of unrepeatable things about them.
It’s the mass of idiots on the Labour backbenches and some Labour supporters who pose about with the “we’re totally on the asylum seekers side” nonsense, purely for the likes and the self-gratification.
All in all, I don’t think there’s anything we can do about migrant movement except rigorous and sceptical off-shore processing.