u/border_dad
· 5h
650 in one day. Waist-high water. Pointing officers. Keep that order.
French Police Witnessed 'Assisting' Illegal Migrants Cross English Channel by Australian Newspaper
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London paid Paris to stop the boats. The Australian watched police point the dinghy in.
Summary
- Breitbart reports The Australian said correspondent Jacquelin Magnay watched French police stand by and even assist as 650 migrants crossed the English Channel in a single day, despite London paying Paris more than a billion pounds to clamp down on the crossings.
- Magnay said officers pointed out shallower water so dinghies could come closer and migrants could board more easily. Asked why they do not slash the boats, police said it is complicated and claimed intervention could endanger lives even in waist-high water.
- The paper said French railway officials turn a blind eye to fare-dodging on the way to the coast, and that Frontex and Spain's civil guard were also seen refusing to stop launches. Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood still claimed Franco-British cooperation is making launches harder.
- Starmer's government committed £662 million through 2029; the prior Tory government committed about £476 million for 2023-2026, a stretch in which around 100,000 illegal migrants reached Britain. Reform UK's Nigel Farage has a memorandum with France's Jordan Bardella to allow English vessels to push boats back, modeled on Australia's Operation Sovereign Borders.
Commentary
A shop dad still smells wet wool on a ferry jacket and knows a patrol is supposed to stop a launch, not aim it. He did not pay a foreign aid line so a dinghy could get a police escort into waist-deep water.
650 in one day. £662 million still on the books. Officers pointing at the shallows. The honest household already paid the levy. The cold rain on that Dover quay still waits.
Look every working father who still treats a shoreline as a border in the eye and answer this: if the check already cleared and the dinghy still got a pointing hand, who still owns the next boat that London already bought?
Comments
If London already paid Paris, why did a pointing hand still count as a patrol?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a beach so a launch still meant a stop. A shrug is not a patrol.
u/rule_first
· 4h
£662 million. £476 million. 100,000 arrivals. Print the three.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied coasts still treat a smuggler dinghy as a crime, not a courtesy taxi.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Farage-Bardella pushback memo. Abbott's Sovereign Borders. File the model.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still clock a dock in the rain. I want the next boat turned, not guided.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A police finger toward shallow water is not rescue. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A paid patrol that points the dinghy in is a second border around Dover.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Breitbart printed The Australian, 650, and the two checks. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Push the boats back. Stop the pointing. A shoreline is not a boarding ramp.
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