Conservative Home Secretaries sign THE deal that will FINALLY END irregular migration from France - A thread.
Theresa May: August 2015
New deal includes establishing a joint "control & command centre" and 500 more UK & FR police officers deployed in the area.
Cost to UK taxpayer: £7 million over 2 years
(on top of further £21 million spent on the issue under May in the preceding year)
New deal includes establishing a joint "control & command centre" and 500 more UK & FR police officers deployed in the area.
Cost to UK taxpayer: £7 million over 2 years
(on top of further £21 million spent on the issue under May in the preceding year)
Amber Rudd: August 2016
Bit wet this one, mainly words about closer cooperation, just 160 extra police on top of 1,000 already operating daily in the area.
Cost to UK taxpayer: Rudd was given no new funds, BUT £100 mil had already been pledged according to the text of her deal.
Bit wet this one, mainly words about closer cooperation, just 160 extra police on top of 1,000 already operating daily in the area.
Cost to UK taxpayer: Rudd was given no new funds, BUT £100 mil had already been pledged according to the text of her deal.
Dishonourable mention for the dismantling of the Calais Jungle camp which took place in the winter 2016-17 and obviously meant that no migrants camp in Northern France seeking to travel to the UK anymore, so that was a great success.
Sajid Javid: January 2019
The Saj appointed a "Gold Commander" to lead enforcement & deployed a border force vessel to patrol the coast.
Cost to UK taxpayer: £44.5 million (Really! it's called the "Sandhurst Treaty") +£3.2 million more on surveillance tech.
The Saj appointed a "Gold Commander" to lead enforcement & deployed a border force vessel to patrol the coast.
Cost to UK taxpayer: £44.5 million (Really! it's called the "Sandhurst Treaty") +£3.2 million more on surveillance tech.
Priti Patel: November 2020
This is today. After making the incredibly effective move of appointing a "Clandestine Channel Threat Commander", Patel now has her own signing paper photo op for a deal including doubling the number of police in the area.
Cost to UK taxpayer: £27 mil
This is today. After making the incredibly effective move of appointing a "Clandestine Channel Threat Commander", Patel now has her own signing paper photo op for a deal including doubling the number of police in the area.
Cost to UK taxpayer: £27 mil
I'm sure you all share my absolute confidence in the Home Secretary on this occasion and my feeling that our money has been well spent.
Please, please do not think this list is exhaustive, either in terms of deals, joint task forces and other bullshit announcements, or in terms of the money they spend on these DEMONSTRABLY USELESS and *actually murderous* policies of exclusion. This barely scratches the surface.
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