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Posted on 03/31/2026 2:58:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The UK will pay France an extra £16.2m to keep police patrolling Channel beaches and prevent a surge in small-boat crossings after negotiators failed to agree a permanent deal before a midnight deadline.
The stopgap arrangement, which will last for two months, comes after French negotiators refused to agree to UK demands for further interventions and patrols to stop asylum seekers from reaching the UK via the Channel.
It is understood the French government also refused to guarantee that patrols would continue without extra funds.
Signed off by the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, the temporary deal comes after a deadlock over plans to revamp the three-year, £478m deal, due to lapse at midnight on Tuesday.
Home Office negotiators had insisted on a “huge surge” of extra officers under a new agreement, as well as a guarantee of an increase in the number of small-boat interventions by French officials as they sought to disrupt gang activity.
Paris is concerned that UK demands could put the lives of asylum seekers and French officers at greater risk.
The development is the latest twist in the discussions between the two governments over how to halt unauthorised small-boat journeys, and who should pick up the majority of expenses.
A Home Office spokesperson said: “The home secretary is driving a hard bargain with the French to deliver the best deal for the British people, prevent migrants boarding boats and to save lives. We want more bang for our buck.
“We don’t want there to be a surge in migrant crossings while negotiations continue. We are looking for a significant surge in enforcement officers on French beaches.”
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The money aside, way would France want to stop a “migrant” from reaching Britain? Every migrant that reaches Britain is one less France has to deal with.
A much better solution would be for Britain (and the rest of Europe) to cut off all welfare for the invaders. Every last bit of it. But do provide free transportation back to where they came from.
The UK has to pay France to help protect its borders?
“Every migrant that reaches Britain is one less France has to deal with.”
But I thought (based on the thousands they’ve imported, to the point where they now have no-go Islamist ghettos) that they WANTED “migrants”...?
> The UK has to pay France to help protect its borders? <
There was a story out the other day about the British carrier Prince of Wales not being able to sail. It was because the Royal Navy didn’t have near enough escort ships.
One solution discussed was to ask the French Navy to provide the escorts.
Pathetic doesn’t begin to describe it.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/britain-aircraft-carrier-french-escort-middle-east
California needs to pay Tijuana to build a new sewage system. Imperial beach is no place to swim. SEAL training makes our guys sick.
Royal Navy can’t sink those little boats?
Lucy and the football. Macron has been making promises about immigration to Starmer for the last year, Starmer goes and sells it to British voters as a historic deal that will solve the problem, then Macron simply ignores the agreement. Macron must be having a good laugh right about now.
Just. Sink. The. Boats.
Dead centre of the Channel, the boats sink mysteriously.
The problem will very rapidly vanish.
It's an invasion - a war situation. And Brits are losing...
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