Re: Stopping the boats

Mike Fleming wrote:
> 
> On 09/06/2024 15:02, Citizen Smith wrote:
> > John Williamson wrote:
> >>
> >> On 09/06/2024 10:34, Citizen Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sadly this thread is peppered with slurs with no substance.
> >>>
> >> That tends to happen when threads are political and not related to food.
> > 
> > I started the thread by suggesting that the boats could be stopped pretty
> > sharpish if the French took the guys in dinghies back and got called heartless
> > for that. I think prolly most people would agree that it would be better if
> > they didn't risk their lives by doing this. So IMNSHO, the French are to blame
> > for this.
> 
> And I pointed out why they couldn't be sent back. Brexit, which was 
> entirely the doing of the British, so the French bear no blame 
> whatsoever.

It's never been easy to return illegal migrants to France, period.

And I reckon apart from the wanting to "take back control of our borders", a 
lot of people that voted Brexit did so because of the attitude of the French.
For example, Charles De Gaulle twice vetoed Britain's entry into the EEC.
Null points in the Eurovision Song Contest ;-)
They don't like us. We don't like them. Simples.

> Your opinion may be not so humble but it's also wrong.

In Your Not So Humble Opinion.