The men and women on the boat told the BBC's Simon Jones they were from Syria
About 20 Syrian migrants in a boat were picked up by Border Force on Monday morning, the BBC's Simon Jones said. Pierre-Henri Dumont, the National Assembly member for Calais, told the BBC:"What is the British navy going to do if it sees a small boat? Is it going to shoot the boat? Is it going to enter French waters?
Mr Dumont said the French authorities needed to monitor about 300 miles of coastline if they were to stop migrants launching small boats from French shores.
Thats good comingfrom someone thats PROBABLEY selling the illegals rubber dingies.
A Calais politician would say that just as long as you get are not his problem 😤
Got to stop this rhetoric about stopping these desperate people in the channel, we will be responsible for many deaths. The only Humain course of action is to help them and try to help change the regime they are fleeing from.
Gammon herders article. Distract the people from our real shortcomings.
Hard to believe that the UK and French Intelligence services cannot infiltrate these trafficking gangs
It will if the navy use torpedoes.
To quote a certain lady, ‘he would say that wouldn’t he’.
Navy cant operate in French waters, and in British waters, must, by internationally law, take persons rescued at sea to the nearest safe port. Which as they cant operate in French waters means the UK. So what will they actually do?
Plenty of cruise ships sitting empty, why not load all the gimmigrants onto a couple of those and then dump them in calais
Without sounding insensitive, does anyone know what happens to the inflatables and outboard engines that are left behind when they reach the shore? Some tidy pieces of kit there in the compound and was hoping to get a bargain
London’s a shthole ghetto. Who would want to go there.
The EU despise democracy. Hopefully the yellow jackets teach him
I feel for French people in those towns near Calais. There’s no way on earth are the French gna attempt to stem the flow, a) they want them gone as much as we don’t want them b)they’re loving stirring up the political issue and destabilising the British ppl over this and Brexit
The same Calais politician who is supposed to be stopping this from happening maybe he pocketed the 62 million we paid for him to control the situation
We should just all stand on the beaches waving crucifixes. Show ‘em you’re cross!
Just bluff & bluster, nothing will change, we can't change international agreements & we don't have enough navy ships, if they're deployed we will have to offer assistance & just give them a taxpayer funded lift into the UK on a navy ship.The statue defenders will not be pleased
The gov is too busy making drama elsewhere so that they can hide their shit show in Westminster of pocketing tax money.
question is why are they not staying in France - not exactly a third world country! & where are they getting all these boats from?
Appalling piece of 'journalism'. Since when did people struggling to survive become a spectator sport! Shame on you.
What will change the situation is the French not helping the illegal immigrants to leave French waters.
The frogs will do anything to get rid of the problem.
The RN will help boats and people in distress at sea. It is a maritime obligation and the law of the sea. And, as they are our ships the rescued come to the UK. So, the RN will be humane, unlike the government and the nasty b*stards who support it.
More navy and border force patrols are needed. Patrol the waters tell em to turn round when they encounter them.
Not unless we have a bit more of the Francis Drake attitude and a lot less Priti useless Patel attitude.
Glad the BBC have put the effort into this story. Not as if we have anything more important to report.
Of course a French official would say that 😂, they basically are watching these people set off and waving them bon voyage
‘Says Calais politician’. How about you do your f**king job in Calais. Says English person.
So stop them getting into the boats !
The french want more money to stop them in Calais
They are going to say that .
Of course, he would say that.
No think your mistaken.....the use of rubber dinghies to cross the English Channel is dangerous, and also illegal immigrants entering the country possibly carrying a deadly virus!!!!!! Enter our country legally or not at all. 🇬🇧
GDP falls by 21% this should generate panic, we are facing apocalypse level contraction. Instead we are being fed stories about helpless people in inflatable dinghies by a compliant govt. managed BBC.
Give it a few more months of this Government and most of the traffic will be crossing the Channel in the opposite direction.
It won’t we have 2 stop them b4 they get into the boats
Use the correct terminology. They arent migrants but refugees.
Come on people don't you realise that this is only a distraction from the real news of covid and leaving the EU and what a mess the government has made of it.
Don't give France any money it's clear they don't want to help at all
Have they got long tow ropes to take the criminal scum back?
The French are happy with the situation as it gets them out of France. Rumour has it they are helping them with fuel and access to boats etc...
Stop people making money on this tragedy!
Ive never liked the french 😒
Typical of the French to sit on their backsides, indolently criticising the UK whilst doing NOTHING to catch the criminals who overload dinghies and the depart, in full view of anyone in viewing distance. No wonder the French are detested by so many Brits....
No more dangerous than crossing the channel in a small boat.
Surely it’s negligent of the French authorities to be allowing them to get away with it. Only a matter of time before there is a serious incident in the channel because they can’t/won’t patrol their coastline.
They should apply for Asylum at the UK border in France and escorted to the UK safely. Bypass the traffickers. Do it properly !
What was the result of Navy being sent in last year? How quickly people forget.
Only 4000 this year into a population of 65 million . The numbers are tiny in relative terms. This is a manufactured crisis to divert us from the government’s failings with CV19, and investigations about corruption, cronyism , dodgy contracts, Russian money.
Of course the French prick would say that
No one has seen the Australian navy when they shot the water and force boats to stop and return to where they come from The uk government are such pussies afraid to upset anyone, who think clapping for our health service is the only way to thank them.
JoRichardsKent Asylum seekers, not migrants.
WE...DON'T...WANT...THEM
Sink the dinghies
And you won’t be missing nothing here😂😂wrong timing , and you want to risk your life Madness
Use the navy seize the boats sink them and take the illegal immigrants back to french territory. You can apply for asylum here by legal means.
Getting the Navy involved will not solve anything it will make the situation a lot worse. It will encourage more of them to come over as they will be picked up earlier by the Navy ships.
Stop paying the french its obvious they are facilitating the illegals use the cash to fly them back immediately to their home country
Sod it, nuke calais.
Well they would say that wouldn’t they.
Well, apparently French help hasn't either, despite a very large cheque with many zeros! At least the Navy is working for us.
Never forget: Attacks on the working class come from those who travel by private jet, not migrant dinghy...
This is one of those ideas you get when idiots are in charge.
There’s a big criminal organization fronting this.. many of the boats and equipment are brand new! If not stolen to order! That supply chain and set of resources needs breaking to have any impact on this. Someone in northern France is making money from this too!
France have to take responsibility and mange their waters more effectively. They are allowing anyone to take off in dingy from their shores towards the UK.
DCBMEP Only dangerous for illegals. Not anyone else. Where's the problem.
won't be long before someone says 'let's take back Calais'
DCBMEP They would say that it will stop them at the edge of our waters for you to take back clowns
1. demand that they leave, or get them to pull over for investigation 2. if they refuse to comply, fire a warning shot 3. if they continue to refuse to comply, then the vessel is a weapons free target
It's almost like this is all a distraction from other matters. 🤷
He's right. Our dog-whistling government, and especially our bully of a Home Secretary Priti Patel, are wrong — again.
Why don’t we create an artificial storm to make the weather conditions in the channel so dangerous they it’s impossible to cross. The we can create tornados that contain sharks to gobble up the pesky miscreants.
Can we not reintroduce Great whites into the channel
It might help if Calais did more to stop the boat trafficking. She's criticising a solution to a problem that she and her fellow politicians could exert more control to stop. But I fear she's happy to see the problem move from Calais or to get yet more UK money to stop it.
Use Navy ships to shop channel crossings period!
Good about time
I’m glad that all these migrants are choosing to risk their lives and cross the Channel to come to the UK. As a Brexiteer it gives me a huge sense of pride that millions of foreigners obviously feel that Brexit Britain is a far better option for them than the EU. migrants
Hasn’t anyone told them that every single white person and our entire policeforce, our whole system of the UnitedKingdom is racist!
What is he doing to stop it
blame the French then blame foreigners then blame the Royal Navy....everyones fault apart from our leaders. When will people realise they are being mugged by this lot on a daily basis.
He's totally correct, the 'navy lark' is just posturing by a desperate Govt trying to keep a lid on its own scandals.PritiUseless ToryCorruption BorisHasFailedBritain
this is just what the left claimed in australia it was all to dangerous and wouldn’t work until Tony Abbott stopped the boats overnight
No point using the Navy unless they take them back otherwise we're just helping them out to get here.
It did 75 years ago why wont it now🤔
Simples. Make a floating wall out of Navy ships around the channel.
These huge numbers of ‘migrants’ have ruined the town of Calais (I’ve seen them first hand), their attitudes and ways are something that the people of this town want gone. Don’t expect help from the French especially the people of Calais.
How do they navigate?
He would say that as it’s in the French interest to get them out of their country and offload them onto ours. Why should they pay for these economic migrants when the U.K. will!
France has the responsibility to prevent people from putting themselves in danger and these crossing are doing this. Best way for UK to make a stand is to put the biggest royal naval ship into French waters.
Let the French MP say that too all his fisherman come January 😊🖕
If this is seen as a problem they need to be picked up and taken back to France. They will soon stop the traffickers that this won’t work anymore. Cut off the trade cut off the business
Dispatch Prince Andrew in his Helicopter. He likes to blow about
These people are not 'migrants' - they are asylum seekers. Please use the correct terminology, rather than insidious racist Tory propaganda. RefugeesWelcome NobodyIsIllegal
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