ChatterBank0 min ago
How To Stop The Boats.....
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How is giving the Africans £84m going to help? We've been bunging the French to no effect, why should Africa be any different? They'll just trouser the dosh and nothing will change.
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Well, lining the frog's pockets did absolutely nothing, so you would've thought they'd have twigged that throwing money at other countries will do nothing.
23:22 Thu 18th Jul 2024
The Finns have the right idea. This is the only way to stop the boats:
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"Starting Monday, 22nd July, any foreigner who illegally crosses the barrier on the Finnish-Russian border will be sent back to the other side. Migrants caught at the border after crossing it will be sent back to the Russian side without the right to appeal. Asylum applications will neither be accepted nor considered." [my emphasis].
Presumably Finland has received permission from the United Nations to derogate itself from the UN's interpretation of Article 31 of its own Refugee Convention.
The border between Russia and Finland is over 800 miles long but there are only about a dozen official crossing points. Despite much of the border being in forests and scrubland the Finnish Border Service manages to patrol the entire border quite successfully.
New Judge, thank you for your answer, I would be interested to hear your view on the following and of course, anybody else who is concerned about what's happening.
Giving the French money just to stop the boats coming across the channel obviously hasn't worked. Surely this non stop influx is detrimental to both countries, so is it now the time for Britain and France to work together and stop them, not at the channel but where they are entering France? Both countries have sufficient, drones, aircraft, boats and satellites to survey the areas where they are most likely to cross and the two countries working together could stop it almost at source. Seeing that a large percentage enter via Italy, perhaps they too should be involved.
Is this practical or just naivety on my part?
vulcan: "so is it now the time for Britain and France to work together and stop them, not at the channel but where they are entering France" - been saying for years, all the French have to do is agree to accept them straight back. Once word gets round they wont even go to France in the first place. Result sorted for us both. Sadly the French place more value on not helping us than they do on helping themselves.
