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"200,000 — And Still No Solution" myblogepage.blogspot.com | May 2026
https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2023/11/no-safe-haven.html
The Milestone Nobody Wanted:
More than 200,000 migrants have now crossed the English Channel in small boats
since records began in 2018 — the total reaching 200,013 following the arrival of
70 people on a single vessel in early May 2026. This milestone comes despite
years of escalating political rhetoric and multi-billion-pound efforts to secure the
maritime border. GBC Ghana
The crossing is treacherous. Between 2018 and 2025, 162 people died in the
Channel. Just last week, a 16-year-old girl and a woman died while trying to cross
in a boat carrying around 82 people. This is the Coast
The Graveyard of Solutions:
Let us be honest. Every government that has faced this problem has tried
something. And every solution has failed.
Rishi Sunak pledged to "stop the boats." The Rwanda scheme was scrapped
having sent zero people.
The "one-in, one-out" returns pilot with France managed to return just 305
people in six months.
Keir Starmer promised to "smash the gangs." His government's November 2025
reforms offer recognised refugees only temporary status, renewable every 30
months with a possible 30-year wait for settlement.
The boats keep coming. ................. ITV Meridian + 2
The Man They Laughed At :
Before we dismiss today's "impractical" ideas, let us remember Muammar
Gaddafi.
Gaddafi offered to shut down Libya's coast to migrants in exchange for €5 billion a
year from the EU.
He pointed to his existing work with Italy as proof he could deliver.
The European Commission refused even to comment, saying only that
"through dialogue and comprehensive cooperation the EU can improve the
situation." CSMonitor.comtrend
The EU's sophisticated diplomacy did not improve the situation. It got NATO to
bomb Gaddafi instead. Today, around 4 million African migrants live in Libya
without legal status — more than half the country's official population of 7.5
million. Left in chaos after Western intervention, Libya has become a springboard
for millions seeking to reach Europe. The INS news
History's verdict:
the "impractical" man was right. The "practical" men created the crisis.
My Own Suggestions — Still Waiting :
In 2016,
I proposed converting the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — three times the
area of France, made of floating plastic — into a habitable sovereign nation.
ByBlock, a construction-grade material made entirely from recycled plastic, is
already certified buoyant. The technology exists. The political will does not.
In 2023,
I proposed three new UN-governed ocean nations:
> Atlantis in the Atlantic,
> Pacegen in the Pacific,
> Indwana in the Indian Ocean
— each capable of
housing 100 million people, solar-powered, built in a decade for $10 trillion.
Impractical ?
The world spends trillions on space missions to colonise Mars.
A habitable colony on Mars will take decades and $100 trillion to house a few
thousand people.
My proposal would house 300 million in ten years for one-tenth the cost — right
here on Earth.
The Only Question That Matters :
Point out the flaws in my proposals if you wish.
But then answer this: what is YOUR solution?
Because the one thing that is no longer an option is to keep doing what we are
doing. Successive governments have promised to reduce arrivals. Records show
the number of small boat arrivals has more than doubled in the last three years.
200,000 have crossed. The 300,000th will cross too — unless someone,
somewhere, thinks bigger.
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
www.hemenparekh.ai | 11 May 2026
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