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French admit ‘we have no solution’ to stop Channel boats amid UK’s weak immigration policies
LLB ^ | May 17, 2026

Posted on 05/17/2026 7:08:44 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

French officials have openly admitted they have “no solution” to stop the flow of small boats crossing the Channel, dealing a fresh political blow to Keir Starmer after Britain agreed a new £662 million border enforcement package with Paris.

The comments came despite Downing Street unveiling plans for expanded joint patrols, increased surveillance and the deployment of at least 50 riot-trained French officers to beaches used by migrant gangs operating along the northern French coastline.

Local politicians in the Pas-de-Calais region dismissed the measures as cosmetic and warned the crossings would continue regardless of British funding.

Alain Boonefaes, a deputy mayor responsible for security in Gravelines, said the agreement merely shifted the problem elsewhere rather than solving it.

“The money of the British will be used to secure a sector, but we only move the pile of sand,” he told La Voix du Nord.

“It starts from everywhere. It is a subject that must be dealt with at the global level. We have no solution. There will always be an influx of people who want to join the UK.”

The intervention will deepen concern inside Westminster over whether Britain’s latest financial commitment to France can meaningfully reduce crossings, which have continued at record levels despite repeated bilateral agreements.

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TOPICS: European Union; France; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: eurocowards; europeanunion; euroweenies; france; invasion; unitedkingdom

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1 posted on 05/17/2026 7:08:44 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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“There will always be an influx of people who want to join the UK.”

True up to the point where the UK is no different from the shitholes they left in Africa.


2 posted on 05/17/2026 7:11:23 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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3 posted on 05/17/2026 7:12:10 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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They think people believe this crap


4 posted on 05/17/2026 7:13:56 AM PDT by PGR88
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The Liberal government of UK acts like they are helpless.

Then winks.


5 posted on 05/17/2026 7:14:21 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Just quit giving them free crap and they won’t come.


6 posted on 05/17/2026 7:14:33 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (RL)
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It’s an outright baldfaced lie that the French have no solution. Arrest the captains, seize the ships, capture the invaders and deport them to the farthest corners of the planet. Charge anyone who aids and abets them as an enemy, incarcerate them for decades before also deporting them to the furthest corners of the world.


7 posted on 05/17/2026 7:16:14 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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8 posted on 05/17/2026 7:16:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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So, the French are going to give back the money the UK paid them, correct?


9 posted on 05/17/2026 7:19:40 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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globalist puppets installed to support the rot


10 posted on 05/17/2026 7:23:26 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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The French certainly have the means to stop the boat invasion.

They do not have the will.

Ditto for the British government.


11 posted on 05/17/2026 7:24:05 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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Sink the boats.
Gather the survivors.
Incarcerate them until they can...
Ship them home.
Repeat until the they get the message:
Fix your own damned country.


12 posted on 05/17/2026 7:26:56 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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> The Liberal government of UK acts like they are helpless. Then winks. <

And the Tories were just as bad. I’ve read elsewhere that Reform wants to end the illegal immigration, but has no plans for removing the millions of illegals already there.

If that’s true, then Reform is just delaying UK’s collapse, not reversing it.


13 posted on 05/17/2026 7:27:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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Starmer is paying France billions of pounds? Euros? to do something they admit they cannot do. If they can’t do it, they probably aren’t even trying so where is the money going?


14 posted on 05/17/2026 7:29:31 AM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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Myabe Iran has some extra gunboats the Frogs could borrow.

 

US tanker challenged by Iranian gunboats in Strait of Hormuz

15 posted on 05/17/2026 7:31:05 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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The French have enough of them. They know perfidious Albion is governed by Labor\Socialist(Fabians) who hate their country, contemptuous of the common people, hate their culture and history and know a new layer of needy voters will keep them in power. Sure why not send them!

It will only stop until someone in the UK has the guts to publicly sink the boats and let them drown.


16 posted on 05/17/2026 7:31:26 AM PDT by Reily
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French officials have openly admitted they have “no solution” to stop the flow of small boats


Sure there is. Deflate the boats before or shortly after they leave the beach. Surround the ‘refugee’ camps with barbed wire and armed guards. Expel the ‘refugees’ from France.


17 posted on 05/17/2026 7:31:45 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Leaning Right

If. The most powerful word in the English language. With If, anything is possible.


18 posted on 05/17/2026 7:31:47 AM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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To: Libloather

The French have nothing resembling a Coast Guard?


19 posted on 05/17/2026 7:34:21 AM PDT by Kudsman (Thune loves bully Democratic Socialists. )
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There are solutions. But they just don’t want to deploy them.


20 posted on 05/17/2026 7:34:23 AM PDT by rbg81 (=)
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