A French port chief has emphatically dismissed alarmist claims that there will be massive delays between Dover and Calais if the UK leaves the EU’s Customs Union in a no-deal Brexit.
Dozens of illegal migrants crossed the English Channel in boats over the weekend, the great majority landing undetected.
The deputy mayor of Calais has said that he is ready for a clean, no deal Brexit, saying, “If everyone does their jobs properly, there won’t be any problems.”
The French government, in cooperation with the UK, has launched a number of airborne drones to monitor potential illegal immigration in the English Channel.
British lorry drivers have been left “sitting ducks” by a work-to-rule strike by French customs officials, with illegal migrants hoping to infiltrate the United Kingdom taking advantage of the queues to threaten truckers with violence and even rape.
Dozens of migrants stormed a ferry in Calais, France, in a bid to break into Britain on Saturday night, in what police called a “co-ordinated attack” on the French docks.
Residents of the French port city of Calais have claimed that pro-migrant activists have given migrants equipment to cut down trees to block traffic in order to sneak on to lorries headed for the UK. The port city still sees around three
‘Project Fear’ would have us believe the United Kingdom leaving the European Union will see the nation subjected to sudden and massive shortages of everyday basics like food and medicine, yet the nation shrugged off severe supply chain disruption in recent memory without empty shelves or closed hospitals.
The head of France’s most strategic port for UK shipping has said that his region is ready for a WTO Brexit.
French authorities have built a ten-foot wall at a petrol station in Calais used by migrants who attempt to board lorries and break into Britain.
Deputy Calais Mayor Jean-Marc Puissesseau has dismantled scare stories that the UK will have to reroute freight or that there will be massive delays at the French port in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Former Brexit secretary David Davis has rejected EU assurances over the Irish backstop, saying that they are not enough and that the £39 billion divorce bill should only be paid on condition of a free trade deal with the bloc.
The British government is going to wargame the impact of leaving the European Union on World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules on Monday, chartering dozens of articulated lorries to simulate the impact of traffic near the port of Dover.
Forty migrants were picked up in the English Channel in five separate incidents on Christmas day, believed to be the highest number of illegals and boats intercepted in one day. The first vessel was spotted at 2:40am local time after
An MP has said the surge in “brazen” migrant boats crossing from France is “unprecedented,” as thirteen more people were rescued this weekend after attempting to cross the English Channel in inflatable boats.
A damning report into the protection of Britain’s seaports, harbours, and marinas has revealed that the country’s border is “not secured by any stretch of the imagination”.
The chief of police in the Flemish municipality of Kruibeke has questioned why he should keep migrants from travelling to the UK when they do not want to remain in Belgium.
French officials have slapped down British claims France will frustrate and “slow” trade passing through Calais in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit.
The United Kingdom’s open border with the Republic of Ireland, which EU loyalists claim is so important that Brexit should be derailed if it cannot be maintained, is being used as a ‘back door’ for illegal migrants.
Britain’s Road Haulage Association has warned that migrants have abandoned tightly-secured Calais for less protected ports like Normandy with drivers fearing increased violence and rape.
Singer and pro-mass migration campaigner Lily Allen has said she does not have enough space in her luxury London flat to take in any asylum seekers despite earlier promises.
Around two-thirds of “child refugees” who were questioned about their age in the UK were revealed to be adults, a government report has found.
Fewer than one bogus asylum seeker in ten arriving in the UK from the EU is transferred back, thanks to “completely useless” Brussels rules.
Contents: Migrants in Calais France hospitalized after violent clashes; Calais becomes difficult choke point in Brexit negotiations
Over a hundred migrants in Calais took part in a series of violent attacks this week leading to several hospitalised from gunshot wounds as Belgian truck companies warn drivers to avoid motorways around the city.
The Road Haulage Association has it on “very good authority” that the French are not using the expensive heartbeat monitors UK taxpayers funded to detect illegal migrants travelling from Calais.
The BBC has deleted a social media post describing an Iraqi asylum seeker accused of terror offenses as a “Surrey teenager.”
Contents: Britain and France renew 1904 Entente Cordiale with new military agreement; Britain will pay £44.5 million to renew the Le Touquet migration agreement
Theresa May is set to give in to demands to pay France to secure its borders, and to take more ‘chid’ migrants from Calais.
Contents: France’s Emmanuel Macron vows no more Jungle refugee camps in Calais; Macron demands more money from Britain and to renegotiate the Le Touquet Agreement
