
Originally Posted by
John2
This is a textbook example of how people were completely duped.
Google "the Dublin Regulation". That was the EU law stating that the first EU country an asylum seeker enters is responsible for handling their claim. Because of that agreement, the UK had the legal right to return thousands of asylum seekers back to EU countries.
When we voted for Brexit, we chose to leave that agreement.
Before Brexit, there was far less incentive for people to risk crossing the Channel in small boats, because they knew they could just be legally sent back to France or their first point of entry. Now that we've left, France has absolutely no legal obligation or incentive to take anyone back. That is exactly why the small boats crisis skyrocketed after 2020 - go look at the official statistics.
Being in the EU gave us the power of collective agreements. We threw that power away, and now you have the nerve to complain that France isn't doing our border control for us. Why should they? We lost all our negotiating leverage. You are completely oblivious to the many ways your vote made us WEAK.
If the shoe were on the other foot, you lot would be absolutely furious if the UK was expected to spend its own taxpayers' money to stop migrants leaving our shores just to please France. You voted to lose our deportation powers, and now you're angry about the exact consequences of your own choice.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. Zero ability to accept you might have been wrong, just all stick your head in the sand and keep telling yourself it was a good idea as the country falls to bits around you.