The deal was unveiled hours after The Telegraph witnessed hundreds of migrants being escorted from French shores without being stopped by police, as up to 600 people in small boats crossed the Channel.
Am I wrong in thinking that a big big majority of illegal immigrants cross from EU countries?
Do they not deal with illegal immigration in their country? Just allow it to move through into Britain.
Then how come it’s a problem for France too, or even pretty much all of the EU?
How is a French politician able to call brexit out for what it is and not a single UK politician has the balls to do the same?
I mean, it’s no surprise.
Remember the “Operation Bendy Bananas” hoax? Tons of people **still** believe that was true even after it was exposed as a hoax. Or – and this is not an EU thing, but rather a power-of-the-media thing – take the Jean Charles de Menezes tragedy; there are still tons of people who believe what happened was closer to the original police cover story than what actually happened once it finally came out.
We have an *incredibly* influential media, and people seemingly have forgotten that the **only** true goal of mass media, at the end of the day, is to sell papers (or get hits, or likes, or upvotes or whatever). I went from having my parents in the 90s tell me not to trust anything I read on the internet to them believing obvious lies today.
There’s a joke in one of the *Karate Kid* movies, where Miyagi says “Lie only becomes true if the person *wants* to believe it”. Fact of the matter is that, for some reason I’ll never fathom, people in the UK got it into their heads the EU was universally bad and they *wanted* that to be true, and they looked for *any* “proof” they could find.
How’s France been doing under your watch? Weekly riots and mass social disharmony?
Keep preaching you complete shambles.
You are the Sadiq Khan of French Politics, blown up, self important and completely out of touch.
In big factor of brexit was the immigrant crisis and the lack of action by the EU and France in particular. Merkel saying ‘immigrants welcome’ wasn’t a factor?
Look at the issues in some of the Mediterranean islands and Eastern Europe – Brexit did not cause this, it was a result of this.
The french president who is either unwilling/unable to solve migrants entering his country to get to another, blames the country they are going to.
Cant honestly make it up.
The most fundamental part we need to answer is WHY UK? All those countries have better [or more favourable to someone from ME/Africa] weather and probably more jobs and opportunity – so why come here – the answer is soft touch government handing out money and houses, and you can work because 0 checks on identity or use another persons account. We have to cure the desire to come here rather than stopping them getting here – no benefits, no chance of being a citizen, no work, no hotels, basic food given to you – no shopping. A blind man on a galloping horse could see what’s required, but no let’s do a fucking dozy deal to swap some. Starmer is really past his sell by date already.
Here’s me thinking it was because France was just letting them through.
I’m not a betting man but if I was I’d say this is a Macron/Starmer narrative designed to get the British Public to swallow the Blue Pill.
Red pill for me obviously… anyone else buying the illegal immigration problem is a result of Brexit?
Pull is language plus knowing they can easily disappear. Remember the ‘oops, so, didn’t know it was 9760000 immigrants last year, chuckle’ moment? Plus who do you think is staffing the immigration group at the top of the civil service? You’re right.
We’re not a serious country and this hand wringing la k of decision making from Laboir and many years of Tories won’t end well. Within ten years we’ll have religious parties; a radical left party; etc.
Diversity doesn’t logically mean strength. It can mean splintered and cracked too.
Hes not wrong
A lie like Brexit wouldn’t have worked without the ego of a portion of the British population who have always believed they’re better than the rest of Europe. Spoiler: they’re not.
He’s to blame he’s done the square root of fuck all to stop the boats!
No fcuk off and take your husband with you
Macron lies, Europe is to blame for the illegal migrant crisis. How else wouldnillehal migrants get to France to cross over to UK?
So Britain is being punished for Brexit?
Tbh, listening to Macron I get the Brexit argument and listening to British politicians suddenly make remain argument more appealing.
Weird.
Watch the Daily Fail have a meltdown because a foreigner has dared to critique a British government, cue lots of French hatred, and the likes of Richard Littlejohn foaming at the mouth from his pile in Florida.
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***The Telegraph reports:***
Emmanuel Macron has blamed Brexit for the Channel migrant crisis as he said the British people had been “sold a lie”.
He attacked the 2016 vote as it emerged that [a “one in, one out” deal, ](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/07/10/politics-latest-news-starmer-macron-uk-france-summit/)agreed in principle to return Channel migrants to France, is likely to face significant legal challenges, will initially [only see a fraction of illegal arrivals sent back,](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/09/starmer-send-back-one-in-17-migrants-under-macron-deal-uk/) and is yet to be agreed with the EU.
The deal was unveiled hours after The Telegraph witnessed hundreds of migrants being escorted from French shores without being stopped by police, as up to 600 people in small boats crossed the Channel.
[In a joint press conference with Sir Keir Starmer](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/08/emmanuel-macron-blames-keir-starmer-migrant-crisis/) on Thursday, the French president claimed the British people had been “sold a lie” that leaving the EU would “make it possible to fight more effectively against illegal immigration”.
**Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/07/10/macron-blames-brexit-for-migration-as-channel-deal-unravels/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/07/10/macron-blames-brexit-for-migration-as-channel-deal-unravels/)
Am I wrong in thinking that a big big majority of illegal immigrants cross from EU countries?
Do they not deal with illegal immigration in their country? Just allow it to move through into Britain.
Then how come it’s a problem for France too, or even pretty much all of the EU?
How is a French politician able to call brexit out for what it is and not a single UK politician has the balls to do the same?
I mean, it’s no surprise.
Remember the “Operation Bendy Bananas” hoax? Tons of people **still** believe that was true even after it was exposed as a hoax. Or – and this is not an EU thing, but rather a power-of-the-media thing – take the Jean Charles de Menezes tragedy; there are still tons of people who believe what happened was closer to the original police cover story than what actually happened once it finally came out.
We have an *incredibly* influential media, and people seemingly have forgotten that the **only** true goal of mass media, at the end of the day, is to sell papers (or get hits, or likes, or upvotes or whatever). I went from having my parents in the 90s tell me not to trust anything I read on the internet to them believing obvious lies today.
There’s a joke in one of the *Karate Kid* movies, where Miyagi says “Lie only becomes true if the person *wants* to believe it”. Fact of the matter is that, for some reason I’ll never fathom, people in the UK got it into their heads the EU was universally bad and they *wanted* that to be true, and they looked for *any* “proof” they could find.
How’s France been doing under your watch? Weekly riots and mass social disharmony?
Keep preaching you complete shambles.
You are the Sadiq Khan of French Politics, blown up, self important and completely out of touch.
In big factor of brexit was the immigrant crisis and the lack of action by the EU and France in particular. Merkel saying ‘immigrants welcome’ wasn’t a factor?
Look at the issues in some of the Mediterranean islands and Eastern Europe – Brexit did not cause this, it was a result of this.
The french president who is either unwilling/unable to solve migrants entering his country to get to another, blames the country they are going to.
Cant honestly make it up.
The most fundamental part we need to answer is WHY UK? All those countries have better [or more favourable to someone from ME/Africa] weather and probably more jobs and opportunity – so why come here – the answer is soft touch government handing out money and houses, and you can work because 0 checks on identity or use another persons account. We have to cure the desire to come here rather than stopping them getting here – no benefits, no chance of being a citizen, no work, no hotels, basic food given to you – no shopping. A blind man on a galloping horse could see what’s required, but no let’s do a fucking dozy deal to swap some. Starmer is really past his sell by date already.
Here’s me thinking it was because France was just letting them through.
I’m not a betting man but if I was I’d say this is a Macron/Starmer narrative designed to get the British Public to swallow the Blue Pill.
Red pill for me obviously… anyone else buying the illegal immigration problem is a result of Brexit?
Pull is language plus knowing they can easily disappear. Remember the ‘oops, so, didn’t know it was 9760000 immigrants last year, chuckle’ moment? Plus who do you think is staffing the immigration group at the top of the civil service? You’re right.
We’re not a serious country and this hand wringing la k of decision making from Laboir and many years of Tories won’t end well. Within ten years we’ll have religious parties; a radical left party; etc.
Diversity doesn’t logically mean strength. It can mean splintered and cracked too.
Hes not wrong
A lie like Brexit wouldn’t have worked without the ego of a portion of the British population who have always believed they’re better than the rest of Europe. Spoiler: they’re not.
He’s to blame he’s done the square root of fuck all to stop the boats!
No fcuk off and take your husband with you
Macron lies, Europe is to blame for the illegal migrant crisis. How else wouldnillehal migrants get to France to cross over to UK?
So Britain is being punished for Brexit?
Tbh, listening to Macron I get the Brexit argument and listening to British politicians suddenly make remain argument more appealing.
Weird.
Watch the Daily Fail have a meltdown because a foreigner has dared to critique a British government, cue lots of French hatred, and the likes of Richard Littlejohn foaming at the mouth from his pile in Florida.
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