Re: Stopping the boats

On 08/06/2024 14:38, Citizen Smith wrote:
> Mike Fleming wrote:
>>
>> On 04/06/2024 21:05, Citizen Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> It seems to the very naive me that if the French would just take them back then
>>> the trafficking would stop in a heartbeat because there'd be no point in it. Am
>>> I missing something?  Is this not being suggested anywhere because the French
>>> don't want them back and we don't want to upset them?
>>
>> It used to be that they did take them back because the UK was part of
>> the Dublin Agreement which said they could be taken back. Since a load
>> of idiots voted for Brexit, the UK is no longer in the Dublin agreement,
>> so as any asylum seekers crossing in boats could no longer be sent back
>> to France, all of a sudden that's how they started coming over. A vote
>> for Brexit was a vote for small boats.
>
> Just wondering, did you know this could happen in the run up to Brexit
> referendum? It's just I don't remember anyone saying anything about it.
>
It depended who was telling you the lies about it.

Not specifically, but the talk was of a complete break with Europe. (No 
deal is better than a bad deal) Or maybe an agreement that gave us very 
nearly the same deal as we already had, minus the bad bits (See also the 
Norway deal). The "no deal" we ended up with took us out of all the 
treaties and agreements we'd spent 40 years setting up. Among others, 
the banks were furious, as it meant relevant staff now all had to have 
local qualifications in every country they did business in.

The Dublin agreement lets EU countries return undocumented people back 
to their last departure point without any formalities.

>> But never mind, as long as the twenty
>> or thirty thousand poor bastards risking drowning by crossing the
>> Channel can be blamed for the collapse of the NHS, the shortage of
>> housing, the crumbling schools, the cost of living crisis, etc, then
>> politicians will want them coming in as a distraction.
>
> They are being blamed for all that? Wow.
>
They are. There are many who believe that they are clogging up the NHS 
waiting lists. Currently they seem to be taking up over 5 million beds. 
Nothing to do with Government policies increasing the list from about 2 
million to about 7 million over the last 14 years. Yeah, right.

They are also claiming benefits while simultaneously stealing all the jobs.

-- 
Tciao for Now!

John.