Heartening news for European culture and security. Never mind the bloke’s motives, get him over here and let him put some backbone into our Civil Service blob.
Don’t be so confident. These are politicians speaking, not people of solid character.
Peter B
6 months ago
They’ve been doing this for some time. Mayotte (part of metropolitan France and the EU) has been sending migrants arriving in boats from the Comoros Islands back for some time. But it gets very little publicity here.
If we’re moving towards a concensus that the current immigration and asylum laws and conventions are no longer workable then perhaps we’re finally making some progress. Ideally, we could construct a new and more realistic legal framework here which isn’t subject to endless legal challenges and quibbles.
David Webb
6 months ago
Bon courage, M Darmanin. Future of France depends on success in your mission.
Jonathan Nash
6 months ago
I assume that the migrants crowded on the Channel coast are all illegally present in France, being neither citizens of EU/Schengen zone countries nor claiming asylum status there. Presumably they could be arrested and imprisoned tomorrow if France chose to do so, but for obvious reasons this does not happen: it would leave France with the cost and responsibility of either dealing with an asylum claim or seeking to deport them. And so they are left there to attempt to cross the Channel with some cosmetic attempts to arrest a few of them from time to time but otherwise ushered towards the boats with a cheery “bonne chance”. I wouldn’t mind, but we have paid a lot of money to France to maintain this charade.
Those crossing the Channel may rest assured that no UK civil servant or politician would ever dare to c**k a snook at ECHR in the way that M. Darmanin claims he shall.
Steve Jolly
6 months ago
Meanwhile, in America, Texas recently surpassed 50,000 migrants bussed to northern sanctuary cities like NYC, Chicago, and DC, whose facilities are finally feeling the strain that Texas has to put up with. President Biden, with an election year looming, recently renewed construction on the border wall. Politicians and governments all over the world are starting to see which way the political wind is blowing and pulling back from free trade and free movement. Whether it’s through new politicians and parties taking power, as with Meloni in Italy, or through the same finger in the wind waffling we’ve come to expect from politicians of all stripes (Biden was a master political chameleon in his younger days), the tide has turned against globalism. I expect to see many more politicians like Darmanin who, regardless of party affiliation, break from the globalist herd to further their own careers. Their success will encourage more to do the same, and we’ll eventually reach a more pragmatic, less stupid, less utopian political consensus.
Mrs R
6 months ago
Stable door, bolted horse springs to mind.
Hugh Bryant
6 months ago
Let’s believe it when we actually see it, eh guys.
Indeed. If they actually said what they believe/plan to do (encourage continuous massive immigration) we Natives might ‘rise up’.
As it is these insincere promises to do something are just enough to keep us passive until we are powerless in our own country.
Jerome Hinden
6 months ago
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Katharine Eyre
6 months ago
Is this the same Darmanin who has been accused of sexual violence/harassment and who lied repeatedly about fake tickets at the UEFA Champion’s League final – long after it became abundantly clear that the fault was with UEFA and the French authorities? Is that him?
Why you would believe anything this guy says is beyond me. Fine, expel people – possibly in violation of the ECHR. But where exactly are you going to expel them TO? If their home country refuses, you’ve got nothing.
Heartening news for European culture and security. Never mind the bloke’s motives, get him over here and let him put some backbone into our Civil Service blob.
Don’t be so confident. These are politicians speaking, not people of solid character.
They’ve been doing this for some time. Mayotte (part of metropolitan France and the EU) has been sending migrants arriving in boats from the Comoros Islands back for some time. But it gets very little publicity here.
If we’re moving towards a concensus that the current immigration and asylum laws and conventions are no longer workable then perhaps we’re finally making some progress. Ideally, we could construct a new and more realistic legal framework here which isn’t subject to endless legal challenges and quibbles.
Bon courage, M Darmanin. Future of France depends on success in your mission.
I assume that the migrants crowded on the Channel coast are all illegally present in France, being neither citizens of EU/Schengen zone countries nor claiming asylum status there. Presumably they could be arrested and imprisoned tomorrow if France chose to do so, but for obvious reasons this does not happen: it would leave France with the cost and responsibility of either dealing with an asylum claim or seeking to deport them. And so they are left there to attempt to cross the Channel with some cosmetic attempts to arrest a few of them from time to time but otherwise ushered towards the boats with a cheery “bonne chance”. I wouldn’t mind, but we have paid a lot of money to France to maintain this charade.
Those crossing the Channel may rest assured that no UK civil servant or politician would ever dare to c**k a snook at ECHR in the way that M. Darmanin claims he shall.
Meanwhile, in America, Texas recently surpassed 50,000 migrants bussed to northern sanctuary cities like NYC, Chicago, and DC, whose facilities are finally feeling the strain that Texas has to put up with. President Biden, with an election year looming, recently renewed construction on the border wall. Politicians and governments all over the world are starting to see which way the political wind is blowing and pulling back from free trade and free movement. Whether it’s through new politicians and parties taking power, as with Meloni in Italy, or through the same finger in the wind waffling we’ve come to expect from politicians of all stripes (Biden was a master political chameleon in his younger days), the tide has turned against globalism. I expect to see many more politicians like Darmanin who, regardless of party affiliation, break from the globalist herd to further their own careers. Their success will encourage more to do the same, and we’ll eventually reach a more pragmatic, less stupid, less utopian political consensus.
Stable door, bolted horse springs to mind.
Let’s believe it when we actually see it, eh guys.
Indeed. If they actually said what they believe/plan to do (encourage continuous massive immigration) we Natives might ‘rise up’.
As it is these insincere promises to do something are just enough to keep us passive until we are powerless in our own country.
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Is this the same Darmanin who has been accused of sexual violence/harassment and who lied repeatedly about fake tickets at the UEFA Champion’s League final – long after it became abundantly clear that the fault was with UEFA and the French authorities? Is that him?
Why you would believe anything this guy says is beyond me. Fine, expel people – possibly in violation of the ECHR. But where exactly are you going to expel them TO? If their home country refuses, you’ve got nothing.