Emmanuel Macron is trying to use the migrant crisis as a Brexit negotiating weapon – The Sun
THE body of a teenage asylum seeker is washed up on a French beach.
He was, reported the BBC, a desperate 16-year-old seeking sanctuary in Britain another victim of corruption, violence and, by implication, the heartless Tories.
1
In fact, the poor soul was 28-year-old Sudanese Abdulfatah Hamdallah, whose official asylum claim had been ruled unacceptable by the French authorities.
A non-swimmer, he stole a toy dinghy and tried to cross Europes busiest sea lane before puncturing his flimsy craft with a spade used as a paddle a mile offshore.
Whichever way you look at it, this is a tragic story.
Yet for some bizarre reason, Britain is getting the blame.
Why, wail the shroud-wavers, are WE putting lives at risk?
In truth, migrants are the raw material for a cruel criminal industry.
Countless young men pay people-smugglers billions to cross continents and reach British soil.
At least one in four lies about his age, according to social care records. Many are well over 18, as was 28-year-old Abdulfatah.
In this age-limit lottery, winners hit the jackpot with free accommodation, healthcare and spending money up to the age of 25.
All claim to be from war zones, fleeing for their lives.
Some are telling the truth. Many make false claims, both about their age and their origins. Some, reportedly coached by aid workers, concoct fake personal histories and nationalities and destroy evidence of their true identity.
With 50,000 illegals now parked in temporary accommodation around the country, hard-pressed officials struggle to tell one from the other.
In fact, only some are in genuine fear for their lives.
The United Nations warns seven out of ten coming through Libya are economic opportunists using criminal gangs to jump the queue. Some are battle-hardened Islamists.
They will remain on the hook to gangsters who shipped them over.
Most who reach France have been officially ordered, at some point along the way, to leave Europe.
Many complain bitterly about French racism and ill-treatment. With every other country moving them on, Britain just 22 miles away is their last hope.
Once here, thanks to zealous human rights lawyers they are unlikely ever to leave and, under our liberal laws, might one day bring their family over to join them.
This explains why they are desperate.
France could solve this crisis by closing camps and cracking down on criminal gangs.
Instead, as The Sun reported on Saturday, Emmanuel Macron is using it as a Brexit negotiating weapon.
If we want a neighbourly hand, we must cough up another 30million and abandon our rights to sovereign status over fishing and human rights laws.
Macron is happy to see migrants leaving.
He thinks it is Britains fault for being so soft an undeniable fact which Boris Johnson is, I am told, about to address. The whole point of Brexit was taking back control.
Covid has exposed the shocking, perhaps even deadly, lack of such control at the heart of government.
Ministers pull levers and nothing happens on PPE and Covid testing. In June, they demanded a return to school. Nothing happened.
Britain is paying the price for an unaccountable bureaucracy, the Whitehall Blob. And for a legion of grotesquely expensive quangos such as Public Health England, identified here on Sunday by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith.
We are tied in chains by lawyers posing as human rights champions and troublemakers who challenge decisions with costly and time-consuming judicial reviews.
Well, I am here to tell you, folks, this is all about to end ...I hope.
Whitehall Remainers are seething over a range of yet-to-be revealed measures which will sweep away EU-style meddling and regulation and hand power back where it belongs: In elected political hands.
Comment
THE SUN SAYSBrussels is still bent on ensuring that Britain somehow loses out
Comment
ALLY ROSSHarry Hills World Of TV is a safe space for un-PC comedy
Comment
GEOFF PALMERBanning anthems from the Proms will only manipulate history & create confusion
Comment
THE SUN ON SUNDAY SAYSPresident Macron and his pals must drop their outrageous tactics
Comment
JEREMY CLARKSONRobots can't fetch slippers, let alone steer a car in rush-hour on the M25
Illegal migrants will be sent back. Long legal wrangles will be terminated. Judicial reviews will be effectively abolished.
Human rights laws will be tailored to fit the needs of Britain, not Brussels.
Thanks to Brexit, the Bonfire Of The Quangos is about to begin...at last.
Free world problems
THE US presidential elections are private grief, but every Western democracy has skin in this game.
The leadership of the Free World is being fought between two gaffe-prone third-raters, neither likely to last a full term.
Republican incumbent Donald Trump, 74, makes even his rare triumphs like the Israeli-Arab peace deal look shabby.
Dazzlingly dentured Democrat Joe Biden, 77, if victorious, will be remembered for turning a non-entity opportunist into the Free Worlds first black female leader if he fails to see out his term.
Chosen running-mate Kamala Harris might be a surprising success...or an unmitigated, untested and unelected disaster.
Neither Americas 150million voters nor the rest of the world will have a say.
GOT a story? RING The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or EMAILexclusive@the-sun.co.uk
See original here:
Emmanuel Macron is trying to use the migrant crisis as a Brexit negotiating weapon - The Sun
- Migrant crisis: Hundreds of migrant men move into barracks as fears raised over safety of British Army families - GB News - December 31st, 2025 [December 31st, 2025]
- Britain is matching Italy's migrant crisis without being on Africa's doorstep as Tories blast 'Starmer's lost control!' - thesun.co.uk - December 31st, 2025 [December 31st, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: Net migration to hit 300,000 by end of the decade as asylum claims surge - GB News - December 22nd, 2025 [December 22nd, 2025]
- 'They are doing nothing!' Labour blasted over 'appalling' migrant crisis efforts as French police clash with asylum seekers - GB News - December 22nd, 2025 [December 22nd, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: Local residents fuming after asylum seekers are bussed into their area in 'secret in dead of night' - GB News - December 22nd, 2025 [December 22nd, 2025]
- French presidential frontrunner plots alliance with Nigel Farage to end migrant crisis for good - with Royal Navy to stop the boats - GB News - December 12th, 2025 [December 12th, 2025]
- WATCH: Women's safety campaigner says she 'fears for her daughter every day' amid migrant crisis - GB News - December 12th, 2025 [December 12th, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: Shabana Mahmood overturns 'Ukrainian' human rights ruling that granted Gazans with 'dubious' connections refuge in Britain - GB News - November 30th, 2025 [November 30th, 2025]
- The 22 MPs in total denial who don't think the UK is in the middle of a migrant crisis - Daily Express - November 18th, 2025 [November 18th, 2025]
- Shabana Mahmood must quit the flawed and outdated European Convention on Human Rights to end migrant crisis - The Sun - November 18th, 2025 [November 18th, 2025]
- POLL: Will Labour's new plan to end UK's migrant crisis work? - Daily Express - November 18th, 2025 [November 18th, 2025]
- Donald Trump has an ace up his sleeve to stop Britain's migrant crisis. We must let him play it - Colin Brazier - GB News - November 16th, 2025 [November 16th, 2025]
- 5 tough new rules from Denmark the UK could copy to solve migrant crisis - Daily Express - November 16th, 2025 [November 16th, 2025]
- How Germany is tackling its own version of the UK migrant crisis - The i Paper - November 7th, 2025 [November 7th, 2025]
- How Germany is tackling its own version of the UK migrant crisis - MSN - November 7th, 2025 [November 7th, 2025]
- After Uxbridge, how can anyone call the migrant crisis a myth? - The Telegraph - November 7th, 2025 [November 7th, 2025]
- Soros foundations and useful idiots: Who stands behind migrant crisis in Europe? - BelTA News - November 7th, 2025 [November 7th, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: Asylum seekers could be moved to 'pop-up buildings within weeks' amid plan to end use of migrant hotels - GB News - October 28th, 2025 [October 28th, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: Nine in 10 councils will be housing 'asylum seekers' by December - GB News - October 26th, 2025 [October 26th, 2025]
- The real victim of Britain's failure to get a grip on cross-Channel migrant crisis: Heartbreaking picture of terrified little girl being taken onto a... - October 24th, 2025 [October 24th, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: Russian spies linked to people-smuggling gangs destabilising Europe - The Independent - October 23rd, 2025 [October 23rd, 2025]
- Padma River Erosion: The Bengal Migrant Crisis No One is Talking About - Frontline Magazine - October 23rd, 2025 [October 23rd, 2025]
- Britain receives migrant crisis olive branch as ally offers to become UK return hub - GB News - October 23rd, 2025 [October 23rd, 2025]
- Ireland tears itself apart over migrants again: How Dublin has become a tinder box amid mounting asylum crisis with resentment boiling over nationwide... - October 23rd, 2025 [October 23rd, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: Record number of asylum seekers returned to France in single flight...but over 350 arrive in small boats - GB News - October 21st, 2025 [October 21st, 2025]
- REVEALED: The Labour town where migrant crisis fury is pushing voters towards Nigel Farage - GB News - October 19th, 2025 [October 19th, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: Britain joined by more than 16 countries on reforming ECHR to make deportations easier - GB News - October 17th, 2025 [October 17th, 2025]
- The sickening novel that predicted a migrant crisis 50 years ago - The Week - October 17th, 2025 [October 17th, 2025]
- Failure to tackle migrant crisis is eroding trust in politicians, Mahmood warns - Swindon Advertiser - October 17th, 2025 [October 17th, 2025]
- How migrant crisis grew from small boats to bigger, deadlier crossings - The Times - October 15th, 2025 [October 15th, 2025]
- Failure to tackle migrant crisis is eroding trust in politicians, Mahmood warns - The Independent - October 15th, 2025 [October 15th, 2025]
- Libyan National Army offers to help UK with migrant crisis - The Telegraph - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- After Starmer claimed his party has finally woken up to concerns over the impact of mass migration, how I know Labour has never wanted to tackle the... - October 7th, 2025 [October 7th, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: Two women die while attempting to cross the Channel - Magic 828 - September 30th, 2025 [September 30th, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: Two women die while attempting to cross the Channel - IOL - September 30th, 2025 [September 30th, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: Two women die while attempting to cross the Channel - MSN - September 28th, 2025 [September 28th, 2025]
- How do-gooders are fuelling the migrant crisis - Spiked - September 28th, 2025 [September 28th, 2025]
- 'Your countries are being ruined': Trump warns United Nations of migrant crisis - Yahoo - September 25th, 2025 [September 25th, 2025]
- Asylum seekers get free cabs to GP while Brit OAPs cant see a doc migrant crisis is a joke but I know how to solve it - The Sun - September 25th, 2025 [September 25th, 2025]
- It is time to ask the armed forces for help in solving the migrant crisis - The Independent - September 21st, 2025 [September 21st, 2025]
- It is time to ask the armed forces for help in solving the migrant crisis - Yahoo News Canada - September 19th, 2025 [September 19th, 2025]
- I was on failed migrant plane - here's what MUST happen to solve boats crisis - The Sun - September 19th, 2025 [September 19th, 2025]
- Catholic Group Sounds Alarm Over Migrant Education Crisis in Germany - The European Conservative - September 17th, 2025 [September 17th, 2025]
- Building industry calls for more migrant workers to address housing crisis - Australian Broadcasting Corporation - September 17th, 2025 [September 17th, 2025]
- Poland Will Seek Chinas Help to Curb Migrant Crisis on Border - Bloomberg.com - September 15th, 2025 [September 15th, 2025]
- Labour 'straining at the bit' to sort migrant crisis as one-in-one-out flights begin for small boat migrants - thesun.co.uk - September 15th, 2025 [September 15th, 2025]
- The forgotten town on the frontline of Britain's migrant crisis - MSN - September 15th, 2025 [September 15th, 2025]
- The seaside town ravaged by migrant crisis as 'terrified Brits cancel holidays' - The Sun - September 11th, 2025 [September 11th, 2025]
- Is the European Convention on Human Rights to blame in migrant crisis? - The Times - September 6th, 2025 [September 6th, 2025]
- Inside the rise of the Pram Power Posse - the unlikely women fighting against the migrant crisis for their kids future - The Sun - September 6th, 2025 [September 6th, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: How Europe went from Merkel's 'We can do it' ten years ago to pulling up the drawbridge - BBC - September 5th, 2025 [September 5th, 2025]
- Trust me, splitting up refugee families is not the answer to the migrant crisis - The Independent - September 5th, 2025 [September 5th, 2025]
- Under strain police dealt with record number of protests this summer as tensions flared over migrant crisis - The Independent - September 5th, 2025 [September 5th, 2025]
- How Spain is responding to its version of UKs migrant hotel crisis - The i Paper - September 5th, 2025 [September 5th, 2025]
- Trust me, splitting up refugee families is not the answer to the migrant crisis - the-independent.com - September 3rd, 2025 [September 3rd, 2025]
- Police dealt with record number of summer protests amid tensions over migrant crisis - the-independent.com - September 3rd, 2025 [September 3rd, 2025]
- How Spain is responding to its version of UKs migrant hotel crisis - MSN - September 3rd, 2025 [September 3rd, 2025]
- How Spain is responding to its version of the UK migrant hotel crisis - MSN - September 3rd, 2025 [September 3rd, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: Yvette Cooper halts scheme allowing refugees to bring families to UK - The Independent - September 3rd, 2025 [September 3rd, 2025]
- Angry protests take place across the UK as migrant crisis deepens - The Independent - September 1st, 2025 [September 1st, 2025]
- Archbishop of York accuses Nigel Farage of kneejerk response to migrant crisis - the-independent.com - September 1st, 2025 [September 1st, 2025]
- Four Years After Taliban Takeover: Afghanistan Faces Migrant Crisis and Declining International Aid - 8am.media - September 1st, 2025 [September 1st, 2025]
- Migrant crisis is gaping wound we're afraid to walk streets after teen 'killed by asylum seeker', Amsterdam locals say - The Sun - September 1st, 2025 [September 1st, 2025]
- Gail Walker: Think what you like, when Rylan is commenting on it, you know the migrant crisis is for real - Belfast Telegraph - September 1st, 2025 [September 1st, 2025]
- JAN MOIR: The pious saints of the Left are appalled by Farage's plans. But what's THEIR answer to the migrant crisis? - Daily Mail - August 29th, 2025 [August 29th, 2025]
- Britain has the most illegal migrants in Europe: How the country is lagging behind Continental neighbours in bid to tackle migrant crisis - Daily Mail - August 27th, 2025 [August 27th, 2025]
- How Epping lit the fuse on migrant hotels crisis - The Observer - August 26th, 2025 [August 26th, 2025]
- How to solve the migrant crisis? Bury the rule of lawyers - The Times - August 24th, 2025 [August 24th, 2025]
- Lord Blunkett says Starmer should suspend ECHR to deport thousands of rejected asylum seekers and 'get a grip' on migrant crisis - Daily Mail - August 24th, 2025 [August 24th, 2025]
- Labour braced for wave of legal action over migrant hotels as immigration crisis deepens - The Independent - August 22nd, 2025 [August 22nd, 2025]
- Dont celebrate too soon. Labour is about to make the migrant crisis even worse - The Telegraph - August 20th, 2025 [August 20th, 2025]
- The Documentary Podcast | Europes migrant crisis: the truck that shocked the world - BBC - August 20th, 2025 [August 20th, 2025]
- Keir Starmer told to hold 'emergency Cabinet meeting' on migrant crisis as Tories demand answers for Epping - GB News - August 20th, 2025 [August 20th, 2025]
- Ethiopia and the Migrant Crisis Causing Death, Kidnapping, and Religious Persecution - Modern Tokyo Times - August 18th, 2025 [August 18th, 2025]
- FAIR Study Update Shows How Biden Administration Migrant Crisis Reshaped the Illegal Alien Population - Federation for American Immigration Reform - August 14th, 2025 [August 14th, 2025]
- Labour is incapable of fixing the migrant crisis - The Spectator - August 14th, 2025 [August 14th, 2025]
- Migrant crisis: More than 50,000 small boat migrants have crossed Channel since Keir Starmer came to power - GB News - August 12th, 2025 [August 12th, 2025]
- Russia, Belarus attempting to institute renewed EU migrant crisis with help from Libyan warlord, Telegraph reports - The Kyiv Independent - August 9th, 2025 [August 9th, 2025]
- Why Nigel Farage is to blame for the small boats migrant crisis - Nation.Cymru - August 9th, 2025 [August 9th, 2025]
- PoR Card Revocation Triggers New Migrant Crisis in Pakistan - TOLOnews - August 7th, 2025 [August 7th, 2025]