Macron and Calais

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Shay HTFC

3,588 posts

190 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Murph7355 said:
TooMany2cvs said:
Clue: Schengen

France doesn't have any land borders to do anything about.
France very much still has land borders. As a result of Schengen it is delegating its responsibilities to the outer boundary nations of the Schengen zone.

That is not the UK's issue. We used our opt out for Schengen, so why should we be picking up any of the tab for the Calais issue? It very much seems a case of despite us having an opt out, we still pick up the tab. A good result of being members, no?

We are geographically very fortunate. France and the Schengen countries should be dealing with it. We know they are incapable, but that is not our issue.

If France don't like what is happening in Calais, they should be reconsidering their Schengen membership, or getting the outer border states to sort it (good luck with that while Merkel is in charge).
Why should they not just stop their border exit checks (and stop allowing us to run border entry checks at Calais) and just let the British deal with it at Dover?
The French don't have a problem letting random people cross the water... it's us that need people in Calais to stop that!

Coolbanana

4,417 posts

201 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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The UK is obliged by International Law to process Migrant Asylum Seekers. Nothing to do with the EU, as we all know.

However, in leaving the EU, the UK also abandons the Dublin Regulation dictating that Aslyum Seekers are processed at origin. It also means there is no protection from the EU against 'Aslyum Shopping' thereby allowing Migrants to have a second shot if declined in France and try the UK.

So, if the Le Tourquet Treaty goes as well, people smugglers have a far better chance of getting Refugees to Dover. Once at Dover, the UK has to deal with them - and they cannot send them back to France because they no longer accord to the Dublin Regulation.

This is why many French politicians say it should go - because the UK loses the right to send Refugees back to France after Brexit! biggrin

Remember too, under the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention, there are protections for asylum seekers' rights to remain should they get to Dover.

So, Brexit plus Treaty gone and all Refugees refused Asylum in any EU country, can try the UK - if they make it to Dover. Also, and this is a fun part, imagine the EU decides to remove the 'first country process' rule and extends it across the EU. That effectively means the refugees will find it even easier to get to France to make a play for the UK since the EU countries can just keep passing them about!



don'tbesilly

13,939 posts

164 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Coolbanana said:
This is why many French politicians say it should go - because the UK loses the right to send Refugees back to France after Brexit! biggrin

Remember too, under the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention, there are protections for asylum seekers' rights to remain should they get to Dover.

Also, and this is a fun part, imagine the EU decides to remove the 'first country process' rule and extends it across the EU. That effectively means the refugees will find it even easier to get to France to make a play for the UK since the EU countries can just keep passing them about!

Any particular reason for the apparent glee displayed in your post?

anonymous-user

55 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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TooMany2cvs said:
Murph7355 said:
I'm obviously a little partisan, but how about Macron does something about his other borders so that people don't get the opportunity to congregate in Calais?
Clue: Schengen

France doesn't have any land borders to do anything about.
You’re wrong of course. France has borders, I has agreed not to keep them protected.

I’m not sure why any of this would surprise anyone. It’s just another incidence of the French being unable to stop foreign citizens coming into France and needing the UK to bail them out.

IroningMan

10,154 posts

247 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Coolbanana said:
The UK is obliged by International Law to process Migrant Asylum Seekers. Nothing to do with the EU, as we all know.

However, in leaving the EU, the UK also abandons the Dublin Regulation dictating that Aslyum Seekers are processed at origin. It also means there is no protection from the EU against 'Aslyum Shopping' thereby allowing Migrants to have a second shot if declined in France and try the UK.

So, if the Le Tourquet Treaty goes as well, people smugglers have a far better chance of getting Refugees to Dover. Once at Dover, the UK has to deal with them - and they cannot send them back to France because they no longer accord to the Dublin Regulation.

This is why many French politicians say it should go - because the UK loses the right to send Refugees back to France after Brexit! biggrin

Remember too, under the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention, there are protections for asylum seekers' rights to remain should they get to Dover.

So, Brexit plus Treaty gone and all Refugees refused Asylum in any EU country, can try the UK - if they make it to Dover. Also, and this is a fun part, imagine the EU decides to remove the 'first country process' rule and extends it across the EU. That effectively means the refugees will find it even easier to get to France to make a play for the UK since the EU countries can just keep passing them about!

No. You must have missed the post where it was pointed out that it's the travel companies' problem - they are responsible for ensuring that no-one embarks on a train, plane or ferry to the UK who doesn't have the right to do so and also responsible for taking them back to France if they bring them here wrongly. Simple as. End of.

Jockman

17,917 posts

161 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Eddie Strohacker said:
Jockman said:
Don’t upset him Mutph. We may lose the tapestry!!!
I like that Macron is trolling us with the loan of the Bayeux tapestry & it's flying over so many heads in the most delightful way.
The symbolism seems to have escaped most.

How would you reciprocate, Eddie?

magooagain

10,013 posts

171 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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While the Calais problem has been on going,I think Macron is forcing it due to the second phase brexit talks.

Maybe he thinks or is trying to get madam May,s hand further up behind her back.

KrissKross

2,182 posts

102 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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mx5nut said:
To a French taxpayer, why should they contribute so highly to keeping people in their country as a favour to us?
Agreed, maybe send them to the German border, or Spain, or Italy or...


Shay HTFC

3,588 posts

190 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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IroningMan said:
Coolbanana said:
The UK is obliged by International Law to process Migrant Asylum Seekers. Nothing to do with the EU, as we all know.

However, in leaving the EU, the UK also abandons the Dublin Regulation dictating that Aslyum Seekers are processed at origin. It also means there is no protection from the EU against 'Aslyum Shopping' thereby allowing Migrants to have a second shot if declined in France and try the UK.

So, if the Le Tourquet Treaty goes as well, people smugglers have a far better chance of getting Refugees to Dover. Once at Dover, the UK has to deal with them - and they cannot send them back to France because they no longer accord to the Dublin Regulation.

This is why many French politicians say it should go - because the UK loses the right to send Refugees back to France after Brexit! biggrin

Remember too, under the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention, there are protections for asylum seekers' rights to remain should they get to Dover.

So, Brexit plus Treaty gone and all Refugees refused Asylum in any EU country, can try the UK - if they make it to Dover. Also, and this is a fun part, imagine the EU decides to remove the 'first country process' rule and extends it across the EU. That effectively means the refugees will find it even easier to get to France to make a play for the UK since the EU countries can just keep passing them about!

No. You must have missed the post where it was pointed out that it's the travel companies' problem - they are responsible for ensuring that no-one embarks on a train, plane or ferry to the UK who doesn't have the right to do so and also responsible for taking them back to France if they bring them here wrongly. Simple as. End of.
Are they expected to search through all the lorries for stowaways too?

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

280 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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iirc, EU law states that a refugee shall be given asylum in, and only in, the first EU country he gets to. So how is it these refugees are able to travel through the EU all the way to the channel coast, and then demand to go further?

Oakey

27,595 posts

217 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Don't we do that at our end anyway?

citizensm1th

8,371 posts

138 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Jockman said:
Eddie Strohacker said:
Jockman said:
Don’t upset him Mutph. We may lose the tapestry!!!
I like that Macron is trolling us with the loan of the Bayeux tapestry & it's flying over so many heads in the most delightful way.
The symbolism seems to have escaped most.

How would you reciprocate, Eddie?
Well we could advertise it as France's last victory (but that would be a lie)

IroningMan

10,154 posts

247 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Shay HTFC said:
Are they expected to search through all the lorries for stowaways too?
They don't need to - stowaways are the lorry driver's problem.

don'tbesilly

13,939 posts

164 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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citizensm1th said:
Jockman said:
Eddie Strohacker said:
Jockman said:
Don’t upset him Mutph. We may lose the tapestry!!!
I like that Macron is trolling us with the loan of the Bayeux tapestry & it's flying over so many heads in the most delightful way.
The symbolism seems to have escaped most.

How would you reciprocate, Eddie?
Well we could advertise it as France's last victory (but that would be a lie)
Alternatively you could suggest that the tapestry was returning to where it was originally made, and therefore belongs in the UK anyway.

Dogwatch

6,232 posts

223 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Seems to be some conflation of asylum seekers and economic migrants. I understood that economic migrants were often reluctant to seek asylum as this can lead to awkward questions being asked.

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

127 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Shay HTFC said:
Why should they not just stop their border exit checks (and stop allowing us to run border entry checks at Calais) and just let the British deal with it at Dover?
The French don't have a problem letting random people cross the water... it's us that need people in Calais to stop that!
Perhaps you're forgetting the "British border" is inside France.

Shay HTFC

3,588 posts

190 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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TooMany2cvs said:
Shay HTFC said:
Why should they not just stop their border exit checks (and stop allowing us to run border entry checks at Calais) and just let the British deal with it at Dover?
The French don't have a problem letting random people cross the water... it's us that need people in Calais to stop that!
Perhaps you're forgetting the "British border" is inside France.
I know, but that's because of an agreement between our governments. The French don't have to let us be there..

FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

94 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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don'tbesilly said:
citizensm1th said:
Jockman said:
Eddie Strohacker said:
Jockman said:
Don’t upset him Mutph. We may lose the tapestry!!!
I like that Macron is trolling us with the loan of the Bayeux tapestry & it's flying over so many heads in the most delightful way.
The symbolism seems to have escaped most.

How would you reciprocate, Eddie?
Well we could advertise it as France's last victory (but that would be a lie)
Alternatively you could suggest that the tapestry was returning to where it was originally made, and therefore belongs in the UK anyway.
Sounds like a hefty precedent to set! I drive a BMW, I suppose that I had better not take it to Germany for a long weekend, they might reclaim it!

Edited by FN2TypeR on Thursday 18th January 05:15

Harry Biscuit

11,752 posts

231 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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don'tbesilly said:
Alternatively you could suggest that the tapestry was returning to where it was originally made, and therefore belongs in the UK anyway.
I think you ought to start a new thread.

JagLover

42,464 posts

236 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42723401

Looks like we are taking more "child" migrants with big bushy beards.