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 On 29/08/2025 11:08, Spike wrote: 
 > Why can the UK not adopt the EU approach to solving the economic migrant 
 > issue?  What is it about the legal system here that upholds the current 
 > interminable modus? Can it be changed? Will it change? Should it change? 
  
 We had that when we were EU members because of the Dublin Agreement - 
 which required asylum-seekers to seek asylum in the first safe country 
 they reached.   France was deemed by the UK to be a "safe" country for 
 this purpose, and we did return significant numbers of people to France. 
   As soon as we left the EU we also lost the ability to make use of the 
 Dublin Agreement.  It wasn't a coincidence that the numbers crossing the 
 channel in small boats then rose hugely. 
  
 You may think it ironic that what is called the small boats crisis is 
 largely of Farage's making.  Of course he is now trying to become PM on 
 the strength of solving a crisis that he created.  I wonder if this was 
 part of his plan all along, but that may be crediting him with more 
 advance planning then he is capable of. 
  
 I am not a LibDem supporter but find it interesting that the only UK 
 politician to have talked recently about the unfortunate effects of the 
 Dublin Agreement is Ed Davey.   It's obvious to him and to me how to 
 solve the problem in the long term: simply rejoin the EU. 
  
  
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 Clive Page 
  
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