Brexiters left stunned after France demonstrates easy control of their own border despite being in EU

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  1. Perhaps reciprocal arrangements are due. Such as removing the EU from the automated channels at UK passport control. We kept that going when many EU airports closed theirs. A few weeks of that and hopefully grown-ups might start taking charge on both sides of the Channel and stop the petty bollocks.

    The French border protection folks are making the US CBP folks look positively pleasant. They are officious dickheads of the highest order.

  2. And they even have a land as well as sea borders. Four thousand kilometers of land borders with 11 countries!

    Sacré bleu, how is it possible?

  3. Always had easy control. They told us to send our military and officials to their border to control their side of the deal despite already giving them money towards it.

    Having massive camps and people clambering onto the backs of lorries and into cargo, people pulling a Walliams across the sea, absolute full control. They’re totally fine with that cause to them it’s not a problem.

    This sub should be renamed ‘antibrexit’

  4. It’s estimated there are around 300,000 – 400,000 unauthorised immigrants living in France as of 2017

    It’s easy to delay legit holiday makers going through legit customs. Not so easy to 100% completely control physical borders.

  5. Something we saw on a larger scale during the pandemic, where EU countries managed to close their borders to other EU countries.

  6. And yet their shores are teaming with immigrants desperate to get to the UK… fantastic border control by the other several EU countries these people had to cross in order to get there lol

    I know this is satire but it’s pretty ingenuous.

  7. This doesn’t make any sense. France has this control of this border *because* we left the EU. Why would a “Brexiter” be stunned by that?

  8. But why. Denmark has had extremely strict immigration control, and a points based immigration system, and border control, despite being in schengen.. for more than 10 years.

    Its extremely demanding to immigrate to Denmark.

    But nobody bothered to do any digging or understand the topics within the EU before voting Brexit.

    My brexiteer inlaw, was stunned when I told him about the danish after Brexit…

    He voted brexit, when a large part of the family are from the EU…

    We moved to Denmark. Cuz our lives got exponential worse after brexit. However now it is great. The Danes have been very accepting of my UK spouse, no problems!

  9. Sovereignty was just used as leverage and then the politicians with
    other monetary interests could continue in their course totally
    unobserved. Standard politicians double-talk. Politicians love to sound
    straight forward and say “it’s the right thing to do”, because it gives
    them virtue, while they lie.

  10. I suppose even Newsthump can see that France’s border control is shit considering they won’t stop illegal crossing attempts.

  11. It was interesting listening to Radio 4 yesterday when the French mayor of that region was talking. The smugness was palpable – you can be sure they are being difficult on purpose to prove a point.

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