After Robert Jenrick’s trip to Calais this week Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp is also there. He reported to GB News that a knife was pulled on him by a migrant…
He told Good Afternoon Britain:
“And first of all, as I was talking to some migrants, another one pulled out a curved machete and started brandishing it. At which point we left pretty quickly. And then as we were leaving we got pelted with glass bottles and as we drove off other bottles got thrown at the car. So it was a pretty nerve-wracking experience. There are only five of us and there are I don’t know how many illegal migrants. Probably one or two thousand in that camp. Um so it was a slightly slightly unsettling experience but everyone we got out.”
Migrant Channel crossing camps on the French coast are no strangers to violence and gang warfare…
Speaking on Times Radio, former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about overdiagnosis of mental problems:
“Let’s distinguish those who are really severely mentally ill, diagnosed with things that require prolonged medical and diagnostic treatment. My wife and I talk about this a lot, because she’s a retired GP, about the fact that you can be sad without being ill. You can be momentarily depressed because your boyfriend or girlfriend’s just thrown you and you’re not mentally ill. You can even have mild issues, which can be dealt with with the right kind of support, but it doesn’t make you mentally ill. So we’ve got a real task, I think, to get the psychology, if you like, of this over. But there are things where you definitely need medical intervention, and there are other things where you need good friends, you need good connectivity, and you need a job.”