article_snippet.sent: ‘Why do we take on everyone else's problem?Celebrity Big Brother contestant Katie Hopkins said on LBC yesterday: 'I, for one, believe we should turn back boats in North Africa.
article_snippet.sent: Personally I would use gunships, I would tow gunships back to where gunships came from, and I would make a huge bonfire of all the boats gunships have - in order that we put a stop to this ridiculous situation that we find we in.'
article_snippet.sent: And the former Apprentice contestant insisted a 'huge bonfire' should be made from boats in North Africa so boats in North Africa cannot be used again.
article_snippet.sent: the former Apprentice contestant added: ‘If you allow boats in North Africa to come that number will grow year on year.
article_snippet.sent: ‘I do believe boats in North Africa need pushing back.
article_snippet.sent: Hopkins Hopkins wrote  of Australia's 'tiny hearts and balls of steel' being the perfect way to deal dealing with asylum seeker boats - and a policy that could be copied by Britain.
article_snippet.sent: Hopkins praised Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government for its success in stopping the boats, and claimed Australia's strategy of 'threatening the boats with violence' was the way forward.