The Camp of the Saints Unfolds: Britain’s Border Collapse Signals the End, By Richard Miller (Londonistan)
The English Channel has become a battlefield, and Britain is losing. On June 1, 2025, a staggering 1,194 migrants stormed across in 18 small boats, the highest single-day total this year, pushing 2025's crossings to 14,812, a 42% spike from 2024 and nearly double 2023's figures. Defence Secretary John Healey's stark admission: "Britain has lost control of its borders," is not just a policy failure; it's a death knell for the nation as we know it. This is no mere crisis; it's the opening act of a Camp of the Saints scenario, where unchecked migration overwhelms a civilisation too weak to resist. As in Jean Raspail's prophetic 1973 novel, the West faces a tidal wave of invaders, and Britain's collapse is the thin edge of an infinitely thick wedge, heralding the end of its sovereignty, culture, and identity.
The numbers are apocalyptic. Since 2018, over 150,000 migrants have crossed the Channel, with 2025 on track to shatter all records. The Home Office's own data reveals a 95% surge in crossings compared to two years ago, with smugglers operating with impunity as French police stand idly by, watching boats launch from their shores. Posts on X scream of invasion: @Nigel_Farage calls it a "national security catastrophe," while @TiceRichard warns of "40,000 illegals forming an army." This is not hyperbole. The 1,194 arrivals in a single day are not a drip but a flood, a relentless wave that threatens to submerge Britain's social fabric.
In The Camp of the Saints, Raspail envisioned a million migrants overwhelming Europe, met by a society too paralysed by guilt and indecision to act. Today's Britain mirrors this dystopia. The National Audit Office pegs the asylum system's cost at £15 billion over a decade, with £8 million spent daily on migrant hotels. Public services buckle, housing shortages deepen, and communities fracture as locals compete with newcomers for scarce resources. The 2025 Centre for Migration Control report exposes the grim reality: migrants, just 9% of the population, account for 16.1% of arrests, with a 3.5x higher rate for sexual offenses. This is not integration; it's occupation.
Healey's confession of lost border control is a chilling echo of Raspail's vision: a West that has lost the will to defend itself. The Conservative government's "asylum chaos" and Labour's scrapping of the Rwanda deterrent, a plan to deport illegal migrants, have left Britain defenceless. The Rwanda scheme, though flawed, signalled resistance; its abandonment sent a clear message to smugglers: the gates are open. Labour's promise to "smash the gangs" is a hollow platitude, with no evidence of progress. Even Healey's deal with France, promising interventions in shallow waters, is a fantasy when French police are filmed watching boats depart.
Public sentiment, far from apathetic, is at a boiling point. A 2021 YouGov poll showed 82% of Britons disapprove of border management, with 68% favouring rejection of asylum claims from those passing through safe countries like France. Yet, elites ignore this fury, paralysed by political correctness and/or fear of legal challenges. The 2022 Nationality and Borders Act and 2023 Illegal Migration Act, meant to toughen enforcement, are toothless, bogged down by courts and bureaucracy. The asylum backlog, 90,686 cases in December 2024, ensures most migrants stay, rewarded for their illegal entry. This is not governance; it's surrender.
Raspail's Camp of the Saints warned that small, unchecked migrations would grow into an unstoppable force, eroding the West's cultural and social foundations. Britain's crisis is that wedge. The 2025 migrant surge, concentrated in areas like Dover, fuels resentment and tribalism. David Betz's collapseology thesis, cited in Nation First, discussed at the blog today, predicts "feral cities" where no-go zones, private militias, and fractured policing replace order. The migrant crime statistics, Albanians, Afghans, and others overrepresented in violent offenses, deepen these fractures, turning communities into battlegrounds.London's fall to lawlessness, is a sentiment echoed in rising vandalism and sabotage, from ULEZ camera attacks to power station fires.
This is not just a British problem; it's the West's death spiral. France's 2024 rail arson and Germany's 2023 crime spikes show the contagion spreading. Raspail's novel foresaw a cultural suicide, where elites, crippled by guilt, refuse to name the threat. Today's leaders, from Starmer to globalist institutions, downplay the crisis, labelling critics as "hateful" while ignoring the statistical truth: migration at this scale, is a recipe for collapse. Civilisational decline is unfolding in real time, as Britain's shared identity crumbles under the weight of diversity without unity.
History screams warnings. The Roman Empire fell not from a single invasion but from cumulative pressures: unchecked migration, economic decay, and internal division. Barbarian tribes, initially welcomed, overwhelmed Rome's capacity to integrate, much as today's migrants strain Britain's resources. The 5th-century collapse saw cities abandoned and infrastructure ruined, a fate Betz warns could await London or Paris.
Civil war theory, from scholars like Barbara Walter, identifies Britain's conditions as ripe for conflict: a declining native majority, rising counter-elites (populists like Farage), and an expectation gap between promised prosperity and lived despair. Real wages have stagnated since 2008, housing costs have soared 50%, and public trust in government languishes at 43%, per the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer. These are not mere statistics; they're the kindling for revolution or collapse.
Some might argue Britain can absorb this migration, citing historical successes like the Huguenots or post-war Commonwealth arrivals. But those waves came with shared cultural values and manageable numbers, unlike today's rapid, diverse influx amid economic stagnation. Others claim legal routes and integration can solve the crisis, pointing to 7,800 resettled refugees in 2024. Yet, legal pathways are capped, and integration falters when 90,000 asylum cases languish, and crime stats fuel public fear. The Mixed Migration Centre's call for safe routes ignores the reality: smugglers exploit any leniency, and public patience is gone.
Infrastructure vulnerabilities amplify the threat. Betz's warning of "one angry man with a 4WD" targeting power grids or pipelines is no fantasy, 2024's Heathrow flight cancellations and France's rail sabotage prove it. A Camp of the Saints collapse doesn't require millions; it needs only enough disruption to break an already fragile system. With 78 Channel deaths in 2024, the human cost is already unbearable, yet the boats keep coming.
This is not a crisis; it's the beginning of the end. Britain's borders are breached, its sovereignty eroded, and its culture at risk of erasure. Raspail's vision of a West overwhelmed by its own inaction is no longer fiction, it's unfolding on Dover's shores. The government's promises, new French patrols, anti-smuggling laws, are too little, too late. The 2025 Border Security Bill, treating smugglers as terrorists, won't stop the tide when elites refuse to enforce it. Starmer's platitudes about "smashing gangs" are as empty as the boats returning to France.
The only hope is a radical shift: mass deportations, fortified borders, and a rejection of globalist guilt. Without this, Britain faces Raspail's fate: a nation drowned not by water but by its own refusal to fight. The Channel is no longer a border; it's a graveyard for a civilisation that forgot how to say "no." The Camp of the Saints is here, and unless Britain finds its will, the flood will sweep it away.
"A cabinet minister has admitted "Britain has lost control of its borders" after hundreds more asylum seekers crossed the English Channel.
Figures released by the Home Office revealed that 1,194 people made the perilous journey on 18 small boats on Saturday, the highest number for a single day this year.
The total number who have crossed the Channel is up around 40% compared to the same time last year.
The figures are a huge blow to Keir Starmer, who pledged to "smash the gangs" trafficking asylum seekers to the UK.
Defence secretary John Healey said it was "pretty shocking" to see footage of French officials doing nothing to stop the migrants getting on board the vessels.
He told Sky News: "Britain has lost control of its borders over the last five years, and the last government last year left an asylum system in chaos and record levels of immigration.
"I think yesterday tells us a really big problem, which is you've got French police unable to intervene and intercept the boats when they're in shallow waters. We saw the smugglers launching elsewhere and coming round like a taxi to pick them up."
Healey insisted the government had reached an agreement with the French authorities which will see them intervene when the asylum seekers are still in shallow waters in future.
"That will help to make a difference to what we saw yesterday," he said.
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said it was "a day of shame for Labour".
He said: "Over a thousand illegal immigrants in a single day, boats flooding the Channel, Border Force stretched beyond breaking point, and even fishing vessels drafted in because our maritime rescue services are overwhelmed.
"A nation reduced to chaos on the high seas while Keir Starmer hides behind platitudes and process.
"Labour has completely lost control of our borders. Their pledge to smash gangs in tatters. They scrapped the Rwanda deterrent before it even began and now the boats won't stop coming.
"So far, this is already the worst year on record. Labour have failed on every front, and Britain is paying the price. This is a day of shame for Labour."
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