France “Deliberately Colluding” With Illegal Channel Migrants

Keir Starmer’s ‘coalition of the willing’ buddy Emmanuel Macron has been accused of encouraging the lucrative migrant Channel crossings, despite Britain paying France hundreds of millions of pounds to do the opposite.

Reports have revealed that the French authorities are picking up where people smugglers are falling behind, providing life jackets to migrants in small boats and even guiding them through French waters until they reach the area where they are picked up by the British.

This, of course, ensures the safety of those specific migrants. But by aiding—or, in other words, encouraging—the crossings, they are putting many more individuals at great risk in the long run.

British Former MEP Roger Helmer said that in providing this support, “France is deliberately colluding with illegal immigrants.”

We’re being taken for mugs.

Fisherman Matt Coker, who has himself rescued migrants in the Channel, told Times Radio that “the French are actually escorting them through the shipping lane to give them a safe passage.”

So… I suppose it is safer, but it almost seems to me like it might be encouraging the problem as well.

He added that it appears now to be easier to cross the Channel to Britain “than it’s ever been.”

Leaked audio recordings of communications between UK and French officials have also uncovered arrangements for the “return” of life jackets so they can be used again and again.

Well over 7,000 migrants have already crossed the Channel to the UK so far this year, while despite hyped talk about “smashing the [smuggling] gangs,” only five people have been convicted of piloting small boats in the same time period.