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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has signed a new deal with France to tackle small boat crossings, committing £662 million of British taxpayer money over the next three years – with part of the funding linked to the French police’s performance.
£662 Million Deal Announced
The new agreement includes a base payment of £500 million – the same as the previous deal – plus an additional £162 million tied to results in stopping migrant boats from the northern French coast.
More French Police and Equipment
The deal will see French law enforcement increase from 700 to 1,100 personnel along the beaches, along with new equipment and a vessel to intercept so-called “taxi boats”. However, the vessel will only act if boats have very few people on board.
Performance-Linked Funding Questioned
GB News reporter Mark White, speaking live from Dunkirk, noted that while the government claims it played “hardball”, the base £500 million payment remains unchanged, with only the extra £162 million dependent on performance.
- New UK-France migrant deal worth £662 million over 3 years
- £500m base payment same as previous deal
- £162m additional funding linked to French performance
- Increase to 1,100 French law enforcement officers
- Migrants shifting routes to Belgium as France tightens security
What This Means for Britain
Despite the large sum of taxpayer money being handed over, many will question whether this deal will genuinely stop the small boat crisis. Crossings continue, people smugglers adapt by moving to Belgium, and the performance incentives only apply to the additional funding.
British families are struggling with high taxes and the cost of living, while hundreds of millions continue to be paid to France in the hope of slowing – rather than stopping – illegal migration across the Channel.
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Even more millions wasted making the taxpayers suffer yet again why don’t they use that money to increase the Navys presence in the channel to turn the boats around as the French are bloody useless at it the same for the new route coming in from Belgium or use that money in sending a huge task force to actually wipe out these smuggling gangs infiltrate them somehow then get rid for good or just close our borders all together!!
If we are giving the French millions to stop the boats then logically if migrants get here then we should be able to send them back because they haven’t stopped them, thus have failed on the contract of the £662 million we gave them or is that too complicated for our government to take in ?
More money for nothing. . The whole amount of the contract payment should be used to send illegal migrants back to France ,Belgium ,wherever. They will never be stopped with these arrangements and we can no longer afford it without positive results