In a poll of 1,673 people from November 25 to 26, 56 percent said that Emmanuel Macron's government is failing in its response to the migrant disaster, while 11 percent said Boris Johnson's government is. Thirty three percent said they are. On Friday, the French President decided to uninvite Ms Patel from this weekend's meeting with European interior ministers and the European Commission to discuss migration strategy.
He revoked the invitation of the UK after the Prime Minister published a letter addressed to Mr Macron on Twitter. Mr Macron said Johnson's letter was not a serious way of handling matters. I'm surprised when things are not done seriously," Macron said at a press conference in Rome.
On Twitter, some people accused Macron of not taking it seriously. Keith Killick remarked: It's you not taking it seriously with your police waving the migrants goodbye from the beaches of France. The prime minister made a mistake by making the document public, according to many. Kirkers 1975 responded to Mr Johnson's post, saying: Why would you publicly tweet a letter to the head of state of our closest neighbours? Bank Andshoal said: Why are you sharing a private letter with the public? Lola Ashton agreed that something as important as this should be done in person. Rob Shiers asked the question: Is it possible to think that Boris and Macron are immature and are both in the wrong or do they have to be one or the other? In the letter, Mr Johnson suggested five steps to reduce the crossings:
In each other s territorial waters, joint or reciprocal maritime patrol operations are in each other's territorial waters
Reciprocal airborne surveillance by manned and unmanned aircraft, perhaps flying under joint insignia
We're going to improve the work of our Joint Intelligence Cell with better real time intelligence sharing to deliver arrests and prosecutions on both sides of the Channel.
He added that this would have an immediate effect on all illegal migrants who cross the Channel to be returned and that it would reduce if not stop the crossings, saving lives by fundamentally breaking the business model of the criminal gangs. READ MORE: Macron knifes Boris in back of Channel migrant letter.
When Britain left the EU, it was no longer able to use the bloc's system for returning migrants to the first member state they entered. A government minister revealed last week that only five people had been returned to Europe after making it to Britain in 2021, compared to 294 people who had crossed in small boats returning in 2020 - when the transition period was still in place. Since Britain left the EU, the number of migrants crossing the Channel has gone up. In 2018, just 297 migrants using small vessels reached the UK shores in 2018, compared to 25,700 people who have made the journey this year, according to Sky News. Leave and remain voters had a lot to say about Johnson's proposal to send asylum seekers back to France. Pete Kitching said he would be re-admission to an EU agreement. You have decided to end the Dublin Agreement with your Brexit choices. Are you sure you want such an agreement? It will likely mean that the European Court of Justice will be the supreme arbitrator, you know, the body that you keep threatening to trigger Article 16 over. Nick Ferrari mocks Tube driver refusing to work nights for 56 k.
David Ackland said that under the Dublin Convention, we had the right to return any asylum-seekers arriving from France to France. Under your leadership, your government took the UK out of the Dublin Convention as part of taking back control. Now you expect France to control our borders for us. Dennis Houghton said that one of the reasons I voted to leave is that we need to control our borders, with emphasis on the control. Since then, our borders have leaked like a bucket. As opposed to Mr Johnson's plan to increase militarisation, a huge number of social media users campaigned for safe ways for asylum seekers to get to the UK. Ian wrote in SPACE : Dear Prime Minister, I can confirm that neither you or President Macron have done enough to prevent such a catastrophe. When seeking asylum, people should be assisted and not forced to risk their lives to obtain it!