Nigel Farage took just hours to start spouting spurious claims about refugees crossing the Channel.
The former UKIPer said every single person that makes treacherous crossing will now claim to be without ID after the defence secretary announced the UK will waive border rules to allow Afghan asylum seekers to escape the Taliban.
Tweeting a Telegraph article Farage said the decision will have “enormous consequences” because everyone who crosses the Channel will claim to from Afghanistan.
The fearmongering was soon squashed by Tony Diver, who authored the original article.
But that didn’t stop him from making the claims on GBNews shortly after, or them being shared by his former party UKIP, much to the disgust of social media users.
Earlier today crowds of Afghan civilians were filmed chasing plans down the runway at Kabul airport – with some appearing to cling to the wheels of a US military plane.
In distressing footage, video showed stowaways falling to their deaths from a plane as it departed the Afghan capital.
As videos circulated online of Taliban militants inside the Presidential Palace following a week-long rapid offensive across Afghanistan, scores of Afghans crowded the tarmac at Hamid Karzai International Airport to try and escape the country.
At least three people were killed at Kabul airport, Reuters reported, as Afghans tried to flee the country before the Taliban establishes a government.
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