Macron Blames Starmer for Migrant Crisis
Emmanuel Macron has blamed Sir Keir Starmer for the migrant crisis in the Channel, saying a third of migrants in the EU are headed to the UK and demanding Starmer makes Britain a much less appealing destination. The Telegraph has more.
The French President believes the UK bears the blame for record numbers of small boats crossing the Channel and has three key demands to reduce its ‘pull factors’.
Mr Macron, who arrived in Britain on Tuesday for the first state visit by a European head of state since Brexit, was due to announce the new agreement with the Prime Minister at an Anglo-French summit on Thursday.
A deal with Paris would allow Britain to legally return illegal Channel migrants to France for the first time since Brexit.
But Sir Keir is scrambling to rescue the pact after five EU member states bearing the brunt of European arrivals raised concerns that a deal would see them forced to take more migrants.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Macron wants Sir Keir to crack down on the UK’s black market for labour and welfare payments and make family reunification for genuine asylum seekers easier as conditions for the deal.
An Elysée source warned that Mr Macron expected measures “addressing the root causes of the factors that attract people to the United Kingdom”, adding: “These causes must also be addressed by the British.”
They added that France would be willing to discuss ways to stop more small boats leaving its shores during the Anglo-French summit on Thursday.
Mr Macron’s allies have said the ease in which migrants can get under-the-table employment means Britain is viewed as “an El Dorado” – a city of riches, where it is easy to work. …
Channel crossings have hit a record high this year with 20,600 migrants so far, the highest since the first arrivals in 2018.
Mr Macron said that a third of migrants entering the EU’s Schengen area illegally were aiming for the UK as their final destination.
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As the once constipated Confucius said;
“No shit.”
Turn off the benefits, tell all the illegals they have 30 days to be repatriated, get your affairs in order and on to the bus they go. I suppose that because it was Sir Keir who fought in court for the rights of illegal migrants to get benefits in the first place, then he might be too invested in it to act.
Or as Dominic Cummings said, do not let a single illegal set foot in the British Isles.
Intercept them all and take them to a distant offshore island, as the wise Australians did.
Yep, Falklands Islands.
Good idea, though I’d prefer a bit further south. Aren’t there any chunks of Antarctica we claim? That would be a good deterrent, and they could learn new skills, like building their own environmentally-friendly, Green Party-approved housing there, out of ice & snow, like igloos.
Well done to Macron for telling the truth!
But let’s also be very clear, as former Queen’s Chaplain Revd. Gavin Ashenden once said:
“The whole Asylum System is POLITICAL DECEIT.”
There are NO GENUINE ASYLUM SEEKERS OR REFUGEES IN ANY WESTERN COUNTRY.
Because “genuine” means they must seek asylum or refuge in
THE NEAREST NEIGHBOURING COUNTRY to their own.
That means NOWHERE IN THE UK, and NOWHERE IN THE WEST.
It is the truth but it ignores the fact that it was the EU that let them all arrive in their millions in the first place. People need to understand that the EU is a global government experiment that wants to destroy National Identity with mass immigration so we all just feel like citizens of the world.
Much as I dislike Macron, he is right.
It is not fault of the French border guards that Britain cannot police its borders.
If the UK repatriated the dinghy people, the problem would disappear.
But the dinghy people know that once they reach Britain, there is zero chance of them ever being deported, no matter what. Also, in comparison to France, it is very easy to live underground and work illegally. So why wouldn’t they want to come here?
Slightly off topic, but on GBNews coverage of PMQs today, the two talking head MPs were challenged over the length of the recess. The Labour MP said he was going to be busy in his constituency attending churches and mosques. Why specifically did he say that. Not religious buildings, just churches and mosques, what about Sikh and Buddhist temples, what about Jewish synagogues? Very peculiar.
Yes, Macron is correct, in that we need to make the UK much less attractive to those wishing to come here illegally. But the EU also needs to consider how such vast numbers are getting into the EU illegally in the first place, regardless of whether their eventual aim is to reach the UK. They need to accept some responsibility too.
Macron stating the bloody obvious and we are supposed to applaud. Macron needs to put the French house in order.
Why isn’t Micron deporting the invaders when they reach French soil? How many countries have these soldiers trekked through before France or are they delivered by ‘plane?
People need to wake up.
You are correct. There would be no migrant crisis if the Global Government people called the EU didn’t them millions of them into Europe, deliberately to destroy National identity as part what Douglass Murray would call “The War on the West”
Of course, he’s right.
It something many have been saying for 50 years.
On claiming asylum, do illegal entrants have to specify what they are seeking asylum from? France?
Many arrive on UK soil having first divested themselves of any paperwork they may have had. In such situations, various laws state that the individual cannot be deported because they are stateless. This is of course known by the people traffickers.
Well, that’s easy to solve, by informing the world that all asylum seekers who refuse to reveal their countries of origin will be automatically and immediately deported to Pakistan, which needs to start EARNING all those £millions of pounds in Foreign Aid we are paying them every year.
Pakistan will accept them all or be cut off completely from UK foreign aid, and all their people sent home.
That’s lovely. Finally I have something on which I can agree with Macron.
Why Prime Minister 2TK thinks UK border security should be the responsibility of a foreign country’s authorities is anyone’s guess. What a numpty.
Because British Taxpayers have already been forced to pay £millions to the French to do just that.
Our Politicians here in the UK are responsible for allowing migrants to arrive here, and then feel the ned to feed and house them. But the wider problem is the policies of the World Government dummy run experiment called the EU that deliberately gave access to millions. Macron and his EU buddies let them in and we don’t have the guts to stop them arriving here and we certainly don’t have the guts to kick them out, mainly because our Political Class would really like to be back in the EU and being a member of the global government club.
True, but how difficult is it to reinstate, or simply apply, standard border procedures? If you have no passport or no visa (if required), then out you go – back to the country whence you came, which for dinghy users is France.
I travel not infrequently and everywhere I go I am expected to show, or be able to show, my identity and travel documents. Why should this only apply to me and not certain others?
It really is not difficult. (But, again I agree, our political masters do not want it.)
But that is where the International Treaties and Courts take over. The government isn’t really in charge. —–The treaties and courts are.