David Vance SubstackRead More
Let me explain the migration “deal” that UK PM Sir Keir Starmer and French President Macron are contemplating because it is extremely dangerous and threatens to make illegal migration lawful.
First, the context. As of 6 July, 21,117 people have arrived in the UK in small boats – up almost 56% compared with the same period last year. The proposed deal, being discussed today, would allow the UK to send illegal migrants who have crossed the Channel back to France. In return, the UK would accept “asylum seekers” from France with a UK connection – such as family ties.
The pilot stage of the “deal” would see around 50 migrants sent back to France each week – a small fraction of the average weekly number of arrivals, which is around 800 so far this year. So 94% of illegal migrants will get to stay in the UK and even worse than they are now being redefined as “irregular migrants” with the word “illegal” now removed from their descriptor.
Further, the so-called “asylum seekers” that we willingly accept from France only have to establish some sort of vague “family tie” to lawfully enter the country. You can be sure that they are NOT ‘asylum seekers” but rather opportunists who want access to all the free stuff that our Government foolishly proves for them.
Back in 2016, the EU and Turkey introduced a similar scheme in 2016. It was used alongside other measures – including physically intercepting boats – thus making it hard to judge the effectiveness of the “one in, one out” scheme alone.
The ONLY scheme we should entertain is NONE IN, ALL OUT.
Anything else is just betrayal and that is the real agenda in play here. Starmer wants to posture as if he has finally got to grips with the illegal migrant wave whilst actually doing nothing about it. Macron is happy to indulge him, especially as the UK Government has just coughed up ANOTHER £400m to give to the French.
How pathetic is that?
The ultimate plan here is to use weasel UN language such as “irregular migration” to sanitise that which is happening whilst boasting about the 50 we send back vs the 800 that arrive each week.
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