Nigel Farage has hit again at Emmanuel Macron after the French president stated Brexit was guilty for the small boats disaster within the Channel.
The Reform UK chief and main proponent of Brexit stated Mr Macron – who’s wrapping up his thee-day state go to to the UK – was “going back to Paris laughing” after he signed a cope with Sir Keir Starmer for a “one in, one out” migrants return deal.
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Chatting with reporters from Westminster, Mr Farage stated the UK “behaved today like a member of the European Union – on technology, on defence, and on this so-called migrant deal”.
“Macron have to be going again to Paris laughing, saying mainly the Brits have rejoined the European Union.
“The European Union have a stupid policy that I warned in 2015 would lead to millions coming. It has. Why should we pay for their problem? We voted in a referendum to leave their problem.”
He argued that the UK’s departure from the European Union meant there was no means for folks to be returned to mainland Europe after folks crossed the Channel.
He was referring to the Dublin regulation, which the UK was signatory to when it was a member of the EU, however is now not.
“Many people in your country explained that Brexit would make it possible to fight more effectively against illegal immigration,” Mr Macron stated.
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“Nevertheless it’s in reality since Brexit [that] the UK has no migratory settlement with the EU.
“It creates an incentive to make the crossing, the precise opposite of what Brexit had promised.”
He added that the British folks had been “sold a lie… which is that the problem was Europe, but the problem has become Brexit”.
Mr Farage – whose get together is at present main within the polls – stated Mr Macron spoke with “arrogance” concerning the UK and Brexit.
“The reason we have the problem isn’t because of Brexit; the problem with illegal immigration was happening when we were members of the European Union,” he stated.
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“The problem is neither Conservative nor Labour governments had the guts to deal with it.”
The scheme introduced in the present day will permit small boat migrants to be despatched again to France as a part of a trial.
In return, Britain would settle for the identical variety of asylum seekers – who attempt to come to the UK by a secure route – as those that are returned to France.
The prime minister stated the association would start as a “pilot”, with studies suggesting that simply 50 folks per week shall be despatched to France again throughout the Channel.
Mr Farage stated he didn’t assume “this so-called deal will make any difference at all” – citing the European Conference on Human Rights, which the UK is a signatory to.
“If we even try to deport people across the Channel we will run straight into the European Convention on Human Rights as written into British law, in the human rights act,” he stated.
“The lawyers will have a field day and will find lots of reasons why people can’t be deported.”
