But would it help?
The two potential solutions to stopping small boat crossings, creating safe routes for claiming asylum with efficient processing or increasing border security, would both require an increase in spending at least initially.
Creating safe routes with efficient processing of claims would be the best solution as it would essentially eliminate the need for people traffickers at source but, given the majority of asylum claims are accepted, you'd have to accept this would allow a few thousand people in each year.
I can't see farage & co quietly accepting that solution and no doubt they'll still be stirring up division, and to be honest, given the conversations I've had with people who are angry about this topic I can't see them going for it either.
So to satisfy them you'd have to go down the increasing border security and investing in personnel and equipment to patrol the coast and round up those that make it over. That'll maybe slow illegal migrantion for a few months but people traffickers are organised, sophisticated, and well-connected, if there's money to be made they'll find other routes in and then you're back to square one. And farage and co will be sure to capitialise on that failure too.
Add to that the fact that small boat crossings are only a small part of illegal migration (there are far more illegal migrants who have come here on work/study visas and never left) so even if you could eradicate it completely your not going to see a significant reduction in numbers.
And none of the above even touches on the wider issue of mass migration. If their issue is that they feel the country is already overpopulated or that their culture is being eroded then immigration controls aren't going to address those issues either.
As I said I can't see any sensible solution that would satisfy reform and their supporters, unless they're willing to change their view on the subject.