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Posted on 04/22/2026 5:56:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The UK government has agreed to pay France another £660m to curb the number of asylum seekers travelling across the Channel, including plans to fund a riot squad to “contain and disperse” people trying to board small boats.
Under a three-year deal to be signed on Thursday by the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, 1,100 enforcement, intelligence and military officers – an increase of 40% – will be employed to track down smuggling gangs and people seeking refuge.
A 50-strong riot squad will be trained in “crowd-control tactics” and will “stop illegal migrants in their tracks”, according to the Home Office. UK cash is expected to fund batons, shields and teargas to deal with “hostile crowds and violent tactics”.
The announcement follows protracted negotiations between the two countries over how to halt unauthorised small boat journeys, and who should pick up most of the cost. The previous £478m, three-year deal collapsed on 31 March.
Organisations representing asylum seekers said plans to fund policing tactics such as riot control would mean the further brutalisation of people who have no alternative if they wish to seek refuge in the UK.
Sile Reynolds, head of asylum advocacy at the charity Freedom from Torture, said it was a “deeply alarming” escalation, adding: “Now, we will be paying for police boots and batons to be wielded indiscriminately against men, women and children on the beaches of northern France for the crime of seeking safety.
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An easier solution would be to let them get in the boats and then sink them when they are halfway across.
They can’t claim they’re refugees if they’re “fleeing” France.
No. It’s more movement of money so various hands can take their share of the grift ... and no boats will be prevented from going across the channel.
How about just sending everyone home instead of giving them room and board when they arrive? Did Brits ever think of that?
I guess the Brits didn’t notice their payments have failed to slow the invasion. The French are most likely recruiting migrants to send over so the Brits keep the gravy train flowing.
Paying Blackmail
I think you nailed it and just the kind thing the French would do and just kind of that idiot Starmer would fall for. The best part is the fact that the hordes keep pouring in despite the millions paid to stop it.
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