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Don't Say I Didn't Warn You!
Both the front runners for the French President election next year have said the agreement for the UK border to be in Calais can not continue!
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Just been on the TV news as well !
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Just been on the TV news as well !
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In the event they tried it then it'd soon get solved if any company carrying folk here from France, who didn't have a right to enter, was made responsible for returning them, plus suitably fined or whatever. Plus, of course, there is a limit on how much one can play to the home crowd and yet risk in terms of deteriorated relationships and consequential knock on lack of cooperation. France has allowed the economic immigrants into their country, it is their job to deal with the problems they've caused as a result.
Just a few weeks back when I said this would happen I was 'shouted down' and told it was ludicrous and unthinkable. Now BOTH the leading contenders for President of France are saying the UK Calais border can not continue! I can't see how both of them are just saying it as a vote winner!
We have p***** them off enough by wanting out of the EU without all the migrant problems that will be a lot more complex once we are no longer in the EU!
We have p***** them off enough by wanting out of the EU without all the migrant problems that will be a lot more complex once we are no longer in the EU!
Yes you did warn us Eddie (along with many other things, most of which seem unlikely to happen). I didn’t “shout you down” but explained calmly why it was unlikely in the extreme to happen. My view hasn’t changed because a couple of politicians have cast the idea about as a vote catcher.
Your notion that, should the border be restored to the UK, that illegal migrants have the right to travel to, say, Dover, is false. They have no such right. Carriers (airlines and ferry companies) have an obligation to ensure that those they intend to carry have the correct papers before embarkation. The responsibility to return illegals to their port of origin rests with the carrier. There is no way that ferry companies are going to allow huge numbers of migrants to board their ships only to see them refused permission to land in the UK. Furthermore, moving the border (as will the accompanying idea of allowing asylum seekers making a claim to settle in the UK from France) will simply attract even more migrants to the French Channel ports. In a word, it ain’t gonna happen and that is no less true today than it was yesterday before the candidates made their pitch.
This is a French problem, created by the French who allowed vast numbers of illegal immigrants to cross their borders and camp in Calais and elsewhere. It is not a UK problem and the UK has no responsibility to tackle it.
You need to think it through, Eddie, instead of being alarmed by political posturing.
Your notion that, should the border be restored to the UK, that illegal migrants have the right to travel to, say, Dover, is false. They have no such right. Carriers (airlines and ferry companies) have an obligation to ensure that those they intend to carry have the correct papers before embarkation. The responsibility to return illegals to their port of origin rests with the carrier. There is no way that ferry companies are going to allow huge numbers of migrants to board their ships only to see them refused permission to land in the UK. Furthermore, moving the border (as will the accompanying idea of allowing asylum seekers making a claim to settle in the UK from France) will simply attract even more migrants to the French Channel ports. In a word, it ain’t gonna happen and that is no less true today than it was yesterday before the candidates made their pitch.
This is a French problem, created by the French who allowed vast numbers of illegal immigrants to cross their borders and camp in Calais and elsewhere. It is not a UK problem and the UK has no responsibility to tackle it.
You need to think it through, Eddie, instead of being alarmed by political posturing.
