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Are you cheered? Do you think the government has finally got a grip of this crisis on the channel
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Because we've now heard of the detention of some migrants, although we don't know how many
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No, I'm not convinced this scheme will work. In fact, I have no idea why it's being introduced
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We know that there are schemes in Europe, in Denmark in particular, a social democratic country
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in many ways, its political system is similar to the UK's. They have actually, as close as you can
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get, solved the migration problem by a number of measures. I don't know why we're not adapting that
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and copying that. But I don't think this scheme will work. In your intro, you talked about decisions
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made by the government, in actual fact, we've transferred the decision-making to France
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They will decide whether or not they take these migrants back. There are lots of loopholes
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If you claim to be under 18, there is no certain way at the moment of telling people, saying
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you can't be deported if you've got an outstanding claim for human rights
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And there are a whole series of other holes in the scheme. So sadly, I don't think it's going to work
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The French certainly don't seem to have much intention of helping us too much in this area
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And yesterday, the Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp, was on a boat in the Channel watching migrant boats come over
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And he witnessed he claims French authorities taking life jackets off the migrants once they crossed into British waters in order to give them again to other migrants setting off set sail from France
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They don't seem to have any interest in solving this problem, yet Macron seems to have convinced Keir Starmer
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the Labour Prime Minister, that this is a mutual agreement. Do you think we've been duped by the French
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Yes, and we're paying a lot of money to the French for trying to patrol their borders
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and stopping people getting in boats. So, I think we have been duped
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The people crossing the Channel will only stop if they believe there is no point in coming
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If they believe they're going to be detained and deported to wherever, not necessarily France, then they will stop coming
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That's happened in Denmark, which has solved the problem, and in Greece
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people are detained until there is somewhere for them to go. But what we're doing, the exact
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opposite. People who come over are getting preferential treatment compared to my constituents
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I, as I'm sure you did, Miriam, when you were an MP, you get letters and emails from people saying
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where can I find a dentist? Very difficult. Where can I find council housing or social housing
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very difficult. I can't get a GP appointment. These people coming across illegally, having paid international smugglers, international
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criminals basically a lot of money, are being given preferential treatment in all those
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areas, health, dentistry and housing. And my constituents are very angry about that, indeed
