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Originally Posted by Osem
That's apart from the thousands who do get through every year via places like Calais of course.
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Yes, it's not air-tight. Still a lot better than having to deal with the problem in Dover though. We have a good arrangement here and one which is not popular with the French public. It seems that £44 million is a decent price to pay as well, clearly the government thinks so too. Remember that even with this additional payment this is a political cost to Macron, the best thing he can do for support back home is rip up the agreement and tell us to handle our own border. It would be stupid diplomatically of course. We've also committed to helping
them with letting them use our helicopters in Africa.
It seems that even after Brexit there are some who just want nothing to do with Europe and to be as anagonstic as we can to the countries of Europe to the extent we'll rip up a beneficial arrangement just to stick it to the French. We're in trouble if even concessions made to us offend the public.