The French State is Now Little More Than a Smuggling Gang
If the events of yesterday show anything it is that France doesn’t want to stop the boats and the French state is now little more than a smuggling gang, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.
Amid all the hand-wringing about the latest deaths of migrants in the Channel, you should keep one essential point in mind: France doesn’t want to stop the boats.
How, you might ask, can I be so sure of this, when by all accounts patrols of the French coastline by police and border guards have been stepped up in the past few months and officers have on occasion even been filmed puncturing dinghies?
The answer is that if it wished to, France could stop all the boats – and rid its coastal communities of the scourge of ramshackle migrant camps too – with almost zero cost or administrative burden by implementing one simple measure.
All it would have to do is issue a statement saying it would accept back to its shores any migrant boat intercepted by Royal Navy, U.K. Border Force or RNLI vessels. Then Britain could do the rest.
Our surveillance techniques – including the use of drones – have become so sophisticated over recent years that almost every migrant dinghy is detected well before it enters UK waters. We intercept virtually every boat, and bring them to our shores.
But if France said it would take them back, we could steam them over to Calais every time. And no migrant would pay £3,000 to a people-trafficker for the dubious privilege of spending a couple of hours in the middle of the Channel before ending back where they started.
The migrant camps would swiftly disappear, too, as there would be no incentive for irregular migrants to trek to the coast of northern France. The whole gate-crashers’ ball would be over: no more boats, no more deaths, no more English hotels rammed with illegal immigrants.
Yet France has repeatedly refused to do this, instead preferring to take regular and large payments from the U.K. taxpayer in order to enact the theatre of attempting law-enforcement along the long stretch of relevant shoreline.
Of course, migrant boats are sometimes intercepted before entering the water, sometimes disabled. But an expensive policy that is at best 10% effective is being implemented while a cheap one that would be 100% effective is blocked.
This can only be because France does not actually wish to spare the U.K. from sharing in the pain of Europe’s irregular migration crisis.
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The fact is that Fishy and Co do not give a damn about what the French are doing. In fact it must be concluded that our government is complicit in the illegal movement of people. The British government is making no efforts whatsoever to put an end to this business and the conclusion must be that too many are profiting either directly or indirectly.
Analysis leads to the deduction that what are being perpetrated are acts of treason by those nominally in charge. Hardly a revelatory point to make four years in to their great reset but that is what is going on.
There is nothing complicated about stopping dinghies pulling up on our beaches so another story is playing out and that is a deliberate intention to undermine the British people and the civilisation in its broadest terms which constitutes the make up of these islands.
This won’t end well.
I think a quiet agreement was reached with the EU as part of the Brino negotiations that the UK would “take its fair share” of the criminal migrants.
For the sake of appearances, Sunak is pretending he wants to stop them and Macron pretends he is trying.
It’s the only thing which explains the close co-operation/co-ordination between the Border Farce and the French authorities.
A vote in the forthcoming GE for ANY establishment party is a vote of approval of current and continuance of mass illegal and legal immigration to these shores.
Altering the demographic to make the population more plyable and easier to control, no sovereignty, no belief in pride of place or history just a malleable citizenry prime for leadership by the new world government, its happening right across the west and is no accident
”We definitely need more people like this, not less. And what is happening across most of the West is really the most effective way of both getting and keeping these quality immigrants. For it is a fact that no matter what they do in the form of crimes we still need to hang onto them at all costs because we need the numbers.” Said no rational person, ever. Can I just sound like I’m victim-blaming a sec, though I’m not intending to, but if you’re naive, thick or ignorant enough to welcome a complete stranger, especially if that stranger is from a majority Death Cult country, then you’re potentially in for a world of pain and signing your own death warrant, are you not? This article details a few examples of what happened to so-called ‘good Samaritans’. None of them scream, ”I’m here for a better life and to integrate into European culture” to me; ”A 25-year-old homeless Algerian migrant has been arrested and charged for allegedly kidnapping, beating and raping a 49-year-old French woman in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes, after she worked with the man “for years” to help him. The victim was raped in an ordeal that lasted from… Read more »
There seems to be an alarming increase in violent attacks against elderly and very elderly women in their homes in France carried out by migrant men. There are also increasing attacks on teachers in French schools resulting in one Mayor in in the town of Marignane stating that teachers in schools should be supplied with attack alarms.
Or a baton, taser, pepper spray etc.
Well I’m sure the French are more than happy to get rid of these people, so why would they take them back? The best solution would be to persuade the French that they are best off stopping these people entering in France in the first place.
Well exactly. Which reminded me of this laughable situation. Of course the NGOs would call it ”crimes against humanity” if you do your job of stopping illegals entering your country to the best of your ability. I mean, this is a gravy train for the human-traffickers isn’t it, with no end in sight. Not now we’ve got this godawful ‘migration pact’ over here; ”Two NGOs have filed a complaint of “complicity in crimes against humanity” against the EU’s former head of border management, Fabrice Leggeri, just weeks before he is expected to be elected as an MEP for the national conservative Rassemblement National (RN). His alleged crime? Trying to prevent illegal immigrants entering the EU. Which many might think sounds like doing his job as head of Frontex, the EU border management agency. The NGOs filed the civil complaint against Leggeri in Paris on Monday, alleging that he engaged in human rights abuses by obstructing open border groups operating on the Mediterranean and enabling so-called ‘pushback’ operations against illegal migrants during his tenure leading Frontex between 2015 and 2022. The claims centre around Frontex’s cooperation with the Libyan coastguard when Leggeri was at the helm. NGOs allege that returning the migrants to… Read more »
Dinghy manufacturers must be doing well in some places. They must know the score or is there some water sport craze going round with dinghies in Northern France.
What we need is one of these bad boys. I’m thinking of getting one off Amazon to take to the next hate march. That’ll sort them out. At all other times it’ll be my guard dog, and you don’t even have to scoop the poop. Though I don’t know how my cat will take to this new addition…Black Mirror vibes, lol;
https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1782791691209978219
A convert friend of mine, ex forces, on viewing the kettling of the Patriots yesterday suggested marbles. Apparently they sort the horses no problem.
Ben Habab was bang on the money by talking about pushing back boats, even sinking them if necessary. Too much for JHB. How many more crimes, rapes would be a red line for her!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ik-WDwdf1g
Talk Radio is owned by News Corp. Like the GB News owners they rely on keeping on the right side of the Uber woke advertising agencies that select where to advertise their clients products/services. Also, there is the politicised Ofcom factor to consider. They brought GB News to their subservient knees.
Methinks, JHB will have received a prompt in her ear piece from her editor to loudly denigrate Ben Habibs illegal boats solution.
Also News Corp is current publisher of The Times. We know how rabid they were over the vaccine mandates.
It is a worldwide scam and Britain is the most lucrative target. It consists of poor countries around the world offloading their poverty stricken and the criminally-minded in essence to save the cost of incarceration. The British love cheap labour perhaps more than any other western country – a few minor pecadilloes can be easily overlooked and so it is a marriage made in heaven if you are a member of the ruling rent-seeking class but quite the opposite if you are anyone else. It really is that squalid.
They use your country as a cash cow and a toilet and hope that you don’t notice. Of course it has been growing for years. My impression is that people in England are rather naive about the nature of this situation. All you need to bear mind is that our system is run by ruthless predators and that the few freedoms we have left exist only because they haven’t gotten around to destroying them yet. You can see the acceleration in the success of their agenda. At some point it can no longer be tolerated because it represents our total destruction.
It seems they have overplayed their hand regarding the WHO backtracking. Would be interesting to find out what rumbled them on that matter.
The only people we should blame for this border collapse is the hand wringing Political class of UN and WEF lackeys signed up to every global treaty going. They long ago stopped serving the people and now serve the global government that seek to control the worlds wealth and resources and who realise that having us all feel just like citizens of the world is best achieved by eroding National Identity with mass immigration. So we don’t feel French or German or British anymore. We are just good global citizens told how to think and act by technocrats we never voted for.
All that will be left of the Italians is the recipe for pizza!
Two weeks ago a small boat came from the Belgian coast. The Belgian coastguard asked them to turn around, which they refused. It was thought too dangerous to force a turnaround, so the Belgian coastguard decided to escort them into U.K. waters….
So is the British one. They are facilitating it with the French.
The French state is nothing more than a WEF puppet, doing as they are told, UK not far behind, ask penny.
When the Conservative Party finally decided who was going to be PM he(or she) should have sufficient briefing on the situation on the ground in France to realise that the migrant crisis is so bad there that the Police simply cannot deal with the crime and criminal gangs that are operating all over France. While that situation has devastating consequences for the people of France, the criminal trafficking gangs operating in the Calais region are having devastating consequences for us in the neighbouring country UK.
The new PM together with the new Home Secretary, Foreign & Defence secretaries should have gone to meet Macron immediately and point this out to him in the bluntest way and told him to deal with this situation by deploying the French Military across the Calais region.
Give him a deadline and if that doesn’t happen then the UK may have to defend its territory by sending OUR troops to the beaches there.
What created this was the EU. ——-They are the United Nations star pupil phony planet saving open border cesspit that is causing Europe to self destruct and destroy its own identity by importing every bit of sectarian clutter from all corners of the globe. We are being invaded now because the EU opened us up to the whole planet and it is now beyond ever being fixed. ——-Read all about it in “While Europe Slept” by Bruce Bawer
What created this was the EU. ——-They are the United Nations star pupil phony planet saving open border cesspit that is causing Europe to self destruct and destroy its own identity by importing every bit of sectarian clutter from all corners of the globe. We are being invaded now because the EU opened us up to the whole planet and it is now beyond ever being fixed. ——-Read all about it in “While Europe Slept” by Bruce Bawer