Starmer’s Migrant Deal on Life Support as EU Intervenes
Keir Starmer’s ‘one in, one out’ migrant returns deal with France is on life support after the EU intervened on behalf of several European nations worried about migrants being sent back to the EU. The Telegraph has more.
Sir Keir Starmer is battling to save a one in, one out migrant returns deal with France ahead of a state visit to the UK by Emmanuel Macron starting on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister and French President have been working on an agreement under which France would take back migrants, who have illegally crossed the Channel in small boats, in return for the UK accepting a similar number of asylum seekers from France.
It had been intended as a centrepiece of an Anglo-French summit on Thursday primarily aimed at tackling the small boats crisis.
Record numbers of migrants have crossed the Channel this year. More are expected to cross this week with temperatures set to hit the low 30s from Wednesday.
But on Monday night, government sources said the deal was “complex” and “in the balance”, with negotiations still ongoing.
Last month, Italy, Spain, Greece, Malta and Cyprus wrote to the European Commission expressing concern that the ‘one in, one out’ deal could mean they would face an influx of deported migrants.
Under the EU’s Dublin agreement, migrants can be sent back to the EU country where they first landed.
“We take note – with a degree of surprise – of the reported intention of France to sign a bilateral readmission arrangement,” their letter read.
“If confirmed, such an initiative raises serious concerns for us, both procedurally and in terms of potential implications for other member states, particularly those of first entry. We believe it is essential to clarify whether the agreement may produce any direct or indirect consequences for other member states.”
The European Commission has asked for clarification on the agreement from Paris and London in order to reassure the five southern nations.
However, sources said it was minded to be helpful as the EU and the UK pledged to work on “practical and innovative approaches” to reduce irregular migration as part of the “reset” agreement signed in May.
Brussels needs to check the deal to see if it meets the spirit and letter of EU law. A European Commission spokesman said: “We are in contact with the French and the UK authorities to ensure the necessary clarifications are made.”
France had been hoping to set out its support for the deal last week, but delayed the briefing after the European Commission’s intervention.
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Perhaps we should switch Brexit off and on again to see if it can be made to work.
I must have missed something because it seems like a totally pointless arrangement…
Yes, I don’t get it either.
The Frogs send 500 young men over in a day, we send one of them back, they send us one in return. It’s still 500!
We send them £400million they send us 50,000 bogus asylum seekers. These people must be one of their most profitable exports.
So about £8,000 each……..
……they aren’t cheap are they?🤔
Why aren’t the French riot police/army going into the migrant camps around Calais, arresting everyone and using the arrangement to send the elsewhere?
Wait. One in one out. Except, he’ll send back the illegals and get a random “legal”. What is the point?!
What in the fresh gynaecological hell is this? 😮 Are women seriously expected to now booby trap their fandangos before they leave the house? Surely it’s less invasive to carry a flick knife, personal alarm or even a can of Deep Heat. I’d love to see the reaction to this on Dragon’s Den; ”Germany is facing an alarming rise in rape cases. In just five years, the number of reported assaults has increased by 49.5%, surpassing 12,000 per year. And yet, the institutional and academic response does not point towards a serious analysis of the causes or reforms that would effectively protect women. Instead of addressing the factors driving this violence—such as massive and uncontrolled immigration—the reaction is a grotesque distraction: proposing “trap condoms” with internal spikes designed to injure the attacker’s penis. The idea, recycled from an old South African invention called Rape-aXe, consists of a vaginal device that a woman can wear for self-defense. If she becomes a victim of rape, the device activates, inflicting pain and injuries on the attacker and also facilitating later medical identification. Sociologist Julia Wege of the Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences and physician Urs Schneider of the Fraunhofer Institute for Health Technology in Stuttgart have… Read more »
In another failed attempt at handling migrant crime, German politicians invented so-called Waffenverbotszonen (arms exclusion zones). This means signage declaring this will be put up in certain locations and carrying anything which could be regarded as weapon there is illegal and will be sanctioned. This includes anything anyone could use for self-defence. The proposed device, useless as it may be¹, would presumably be exempt from that.
¹ By the time this would activate, a woman carrying it did already fall prey to a violent sex crime.
Just sounds like the Mooncup’s evil twin to me. More ‘gin trap’ than ‘honey trap’. I’d be frightened to ride my bike in case I set the damn thing off. 😨
Stapled to your bike, forever 😳 ouch.
I wonder if a set of those wind-up joke shop gnashers would suffice…?😨
Last month, Italy, Spain, Greece, Malta and Cyprus wrote to the European Commission expressing concern that the ‘one in, one out’ deal could mean they would face an influx of deported migrants.
The statement continued: “Far better that we palm them off on the UK who welcome cultural enrichment. They’ll house them and mollycoddle them using their magic money-tree orchards”.
Ahem…. All the bovine fæces about ECHR and nothing the UK can do is completely nullified – see below. The immigration problem was recognised in the 1980s and dealt with. As usual EU rulz only apply when convenient. The truth is that successive UK Governments want to flood the Country with trash. What is notable is nobody not the media, not Parties in Opposition, not even Reform UK have mentioned the EC Dirdctive… see below. Odd that. ”The Dublin Convention, signed on June 15, 1990, and effective from September 1, 1997, was an agreement among European Community member states to determine which state is responsible for processing asylum applications. Its primary goal was to prevent “asylum shopping” (multiple applications in different countries) and “refugees in orbit” (no country taking responsibility). The key principle, known as the “first entry rule,” assigns responsibility to the first member state where an asylum seeker enters or is identified, typically through fingerprints or visa records. The Convention established a hierarchy of criteria for determining responsibility: 1. Family unity: Priority is given to states where the applicant has family members legally present. 2. Visa or residence permit: The state that issued a visa or permit is responsible. 3. Illegal… Read more »
So why doesn’t clause 3 apply to France. they are responsible for all illegals who apply to stay, even those who are rejected.
Or would they quibble that none of the boat people applied to stay first before coming here?
Starmer will undoubtedly cave in and agree to whatever the EU wants, so long as it’s against British interests. Guaranteed.
Slightly off piste, but I see a logo on the inflatable, is it really so hard to trace the supply of these craft and thereby trace the buyers and to ban the sale of same?
So the Channel (+RAF +RN) was one heck of an obstacle to Napolean & Adolph. But not it seems to these vermin. What’s the problem? How hard can it be to disable a rubber dinghy? But then the pommy armed forces aren’t much to speak of anymore………. might even be worse than ours.
I can’t get over how many women posing as men are in that rubber boat in the picture.
They’ve got a shock coming once they set foot on British soil! If they think they can use any toilet facilities as they so wish once here, they are wrong!!
They should know that we have now put our foot down against such thinking, so they better clear off!
The utter cheek of them.
I don’t understand.
What does this deal solve?
’One in, one out’ does not alter the number?
Can someone tell 2TK….
Everyone knows mr starmer could stop illegal immigration tomorrow if he so wished.
Now here’s a revolutionary suggestion…. Get those EU countries who are so worried about migrants being sent back to them from the UK to ensure the migrants never enter the EU illegally in the first place.
Seems to me that hesswapping the unattached for those with family ties. Numbers will not change ,it’s not who’s here but how many,and he’s putting faith in the duplicitous French. Good luck with that
Maybe we should take a leaf out of recent European history (you know who I mean) and start sinking the boats in the channel. If you can swim to Britain you get to stay, no help though.
I’m not a cruel man though, the boats would be sunk within reach (just) of the French shores.
The closest which could be achieved would be about 5.6km which would be death sentence. And the UK government wouldn’t be murdering civilians in international waters for the crime of not breaking any laws for long.
These people become illegal immigrants the moment they cross the border illegally. Before that, they’re just innocent people on a boat trip they’re perfectly entitled to make.