Blame the ‘take back control’ of Brexit as much and as often as you like – it’s a mute and disreputable argument and the facts are entirely different.
The facts of the matter are that the EU is blatantly turning a blind eye to their own legal responsibilities. They have a collective duty to abide by their own laws without favour or strategic avoidance. There are several countries that lie between the points of entry into the continent, the final one happens to be France, not UK. It is a simple fact that the real problem is being avoided by UKGOV out of a desire not to light fires of even greater animosity than Macron has displayed.
EU law requires any so-called ‘illegal aliens’ are to be held at their point of entry into EU territory and repatriated at an early opportunity. They have each ignored their own laws and have overridden EU law because they do not want to accept unfettered immigration for a variety of reasons. Hence the blind eyes and even assistance for travel oinwards with a known destination.
Oddball arguments about ‘taking back control’ are deliberately ignorant of what is involved in a now much wider mood of animosity towards UK by the EU and are an unfounded basis for argument which can only serve to confuse and misdirect the argument.
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