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Mark Goodge · July 1st 16, 02:41 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 08:30:17 +0000 (UTC), d put finger to
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:09:37 +0100
Martin Coffee wrote:

I thought that Boris' opposite number in Calais announced that he was
going to charter a ship to bring them all to the UK?

The mayor of calais seems to spend her life complaining about the UK. Perhaps
she should complain to her own government to do their damn job and process
these people instead of allowing mass vagrancy.

The Mayor of Calais has a valid argument that the Touquet agreement has
imposed a disproportional burden on her town as a result of France's
inability to intercept illegal migrants before they get there. It is not
difficult to have sympathy with her position.

However, the value to France as a whole of the agreement, and the fact that
Calais is just one of many Channel port towns implementing it, means that
it's unlikely to be unilaterally rescinded by France.

It is, though, a convenient bogeyman with which to threaten the UK,
particularly by French politicians who want to deflect attention from the
fact that the underlying problem is France's own inability to handle
illegal migrants.

Mark
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