I don’t see why we should keep the migrants in our country, and getting all the critics. Just let them go to the UK already. Brexit means brexit, it’s their problem, not ours now. Especially for a country like the UK. It’s not like it was the first time they were disappointing.
They also said the UK must make itself ‘less economically attractive’
They literally want the UK to be a more inhospitable place for asylum seekers. To actually treat people like shit and without respect.
If that is how the French treat people, it’s no wonder they’re literally risking their lives to reach the UK.
France is not UK’s personal border patrol force.
It does it either out of good will or as part of an agreement. That agreement is currently being trampled on by Bojo’s government as not one penny of the money promised by the UK during the Touquet accords have been seen.
It seems at this point the UK is basically expecting France to be its border guardian for free, without any cost-sharing and while shitting constantly on us. That’s not going to happens.
It seems there is a huge misunderstanding from so many of you on this subreddit.
You keep seeing France as a country kindly offering to save the U.K. from a migration crisis out of the goodness of its heart. That, if not for French support, the U.K. would be flooded with migrants. Like France holds some kind of soft power weapon it chooses not to use, out of respect for the U.K.
Let’s be real. The U.K. if it chose to, could stop the migrant flow unilaterally, no matter what France decides. Boats can easily be turned around and sent back to French waters for France to deal with.
The U.K. is the island. The U.K. has a much smaller area to police, an area that it has the advantage by virtue of being a significantly larger navy and significantly smaller area to actually keep an eye on (the whole U.K. coast isn’t necessary).
The only thing stopping this from happening is a mutual desire from both sides not to devolve into a tit for tat pass the parcel and the political will to do it.
Should France decide to wash its hands of **its own migrants, who are in France, and Frances responsibility utterly** and tries to encourage them onwards to the U.K., the political will and support from the British public would be so overwhelming towards a send their boats back policy that it would take a matter of days for the migrant flow to the U.K. to halt entirely.
Stop thinking this is an argument you can win France. The same with your petulant tantrums over fishing. You do **not** hold the cards here.
Maybe they should stop them at the med . Poland have the idea . Bombing will start next terrorist influx
Two nations governments bickering when they should be working together on a shared problem. Example #835143846 of how our politicians are useless muppets who constantly fail us.
We’re talking about a country who throws tantrums on a weekly basis and made endless threats, including cutting UK power, food, etc over 30 small fishing boats because it’s election year. Now they say *they* don’t want to be held “hostage” by domestic politics?
lol. Man, the arrogance and lack of self-awareness in France is something else. How many threats has the UK issued to France in the last year, vs the other way around?
EU “omg the NI border is going to be a nightmare and if the UK doesn’t harshly enforce a hard border we’ll force Ireland to make one”
Also EU – “we can’t enforce a hard boarder and it’s not our job too”
Turkey and Greece but in bigger countries and smaller numbers.
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I don’t see why we should keep the migrants in our country, and getting all the critics. Just let them go to the UK already. Brexit means brexit, it’s their problem, not ours now. Especially for a country like the UK. It’s not like it was the first time they were disappointing.
They also said the UK must make itself ‘less economically attractive’
They literally want the UK to be a more inhospitable place for asylum seekers. To actually treat people like shit and without respect.
If that is how the French treat people, it’s no wonder they’re literally risking their lives to reach the UK.
France is not UK’s personal border patrol force.
It does it either out of good will or as part of an agreement. That agreement is currently being trampled on by Bojo’s government as not one penny of the money promised by the UK during the Touquet accords have been seen.
It seems at this point the UK is basically expecting France to be its border guardian for free, without any cost-sharing and while shitting constantly on us. That’s not going to happens.
It seems there is a huge misunderstanding from so many of you on this subreddit.
You keep seeing France as a country kindly offering to save the U.K. from a migration crisis out of the goodness of its heart. That, if not for French support, the U.K. would be flooded with migrants. Like France holds some kind of soft power weapon it chooses not to use, out of respect for the U.K.
Let’s be real. The U.K. if it chose to, could stop the migrant flow unilaterally, no matter what France decides. Boats can easily be turned around and sent back to French waters for France to deal with.
The U.K. is the island. The U.K. has a much smaller area to police, an area that it has the advantage by virtue of being a significantly larger navy and significantly smaller area to actually keep an eye on (the whole U.K. coast isn’t necessary).
The only thing stopping this from happening is a mutual desire from both sides not to devolve into a tit for tat pass the parcel and the political will to do it.
Should France decide to wash its hands of **its own migrants, who are in France, and Frances responsibility utterly** and tries to encourage them onwards to the U.K., the political will and support from the British public would be so overwhelming towards a send their boats back policy that it would take a matter of days for the migrant flow to the U.K. to halt entirely.
Stop thinking this is an argument you can win France. The same with your petulant tantrums over fishing. You do **not** hold the cards here.
Maybe they should stop them at the med . Poland have the idea . Bombing will start next terrorist influx
Two nations governments bickering when they should be working together on a shared problem. Example #835143846 of how our politicians are useless muppets who constantly fail us.
We’re talking about a country who throws tantrums on a weekly basis and made endless threats, including cutting UK power, food, etc over 30 small fishing boats because it’s election year. Now they say *they* don’t want to be held “hostage” by domestic politics?
lol. Man, the arrogance and lack of self-awareness in France is something else. How many threats has the UK issued to France in the last year, vs the other way around?
EU “omg the NI border is going to be a nightmare and if the UK doesn’t harshly enforce a hard border we’ll force Ireland to make one”
Also EU – “we can’t enforce a hard boarder and it’s not our job too”
Turkey and Greece but in bigger countries and smaller numbers.
J’aime mon rosbif saignant
So lets get this right….
The France/England border isn’t an EU issue……
But an Ireland/Northern Ireland one is?
France acting like Belarus