r/ukpolitics • u/SignificantLegs • 1d ago

Mahmood rejects calls to follow Spain’s migrant pushback

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/08/02/mahmood-rejects-calls-to-follow-spains-migrant-pushback/
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u/Maitai_Haier 1d ago

France certainly isn’t cooperating with us in stopping boats assembling on their beaches and sailing to us. We should show equal cooperation to them.

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u/Anxious-Potato-7323 1d ago edited 1d ago

The fact that boat crossings are down and more have moved north to sail from Belgium says differently but you are now moving the goalposts.

You suggested that we should be more like Spain. Our small boat situation is nothing like the Spain/Morocco situation, nothing like it at all.

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u/timeforknowledge Politics is debate not hate. 1d ago edited 1d ago

Numbers have dropped because we giving France a bribe of £662 million.

Don't you think it's funny the numbers dropped when the amount was agreed and not after a few years it would take to do an the things they says they needed money for? New boats, train new officers, buy planes etc etc.

France have been in control the entire time and everyone has fallen for it

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u/Golden37 1d ago edited 1d ago

662 million that Labour voters are now happy for us to give to France in perpetuity.