The British government is paying Paris £800 million “for absolutely nothing” and France is using the UK as a “dumping ground for illegal migrants,” the Shadow Justice Secretary has said.
Robert Jenrick gave a scathing attack on the French authorities after he spent 48 hours in northern France and watched illegal migrant freely moving around to then head to the UK.
The Shadow Justice Secretary told GB News that he was “shocked by what he saw.”
The Conservative MP said, “I’ve been following this issue for a long time, but even I was shocked by what I saw, and in particular by the fact that the French, to whom we’re giving £800million a year and just given a state visit to their president, are basically aiding and abetting the migrants.
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I literally saw migrants walking down a highway holding life jackets, no one did anything. I saw them getting on a public bus, no one stops them.
Imagine if you’re getting on the bus and 40 or 50 migrants holding life jackets got on, not exactly subtle. I even saw police cars go past and look at them and didn’t do anything.
Jenrick told GB News, “At daybreak at Dunkirk beach, I phoned the police in France because I felt I’ve got to do something, I’ve got to stop these people getting into our country. And the French did absolutely nothing.
“The operator on the phone said, ‘oh, that’s terribly interesting, I’ll pass it on, but to be honest, the police probably aren’t going to come’.
That is what we’re getting in return for the millions of pounds, the effort that Keir Starmer is supposedly doing to smash the gangs. I think it’s a total disgrace.”
In a warning Jenrick said that the French are “never going to fix” the illegal migrants coming into their country and stop them crossing the English Channel.
Jenrick added, “We should not be relying on the French to fix this, the French are never going to fix this.
“The French are using the UK as a dumping ground for illegal migrants that they don’t want. We have to step up and take responsibility.
I spent hours on the beach at Dunkirk, and I didn’t see a single police officer the whole time. We are paying for absolutely nothing.
We should not be relying on the kindness of strangers in another country to secure our borders. We need our own deterrent. We need to be detaining and deporting each and every one of these people.”
