Anyway one of my main concerns about exit was that I felt that France would abandon the Le Touquet agreement which will allow the occupants of the Jungle in Calais free access to travel to the East Coast of Britain. This looks already on the cards!
Why do people keep posting this sort of rubbish, it is completely untrue!!
From The Guardian..
The
French deal with Britain that keeps border checks, and thousands of refugees and migrants, on the French side of the Channel will remain in place and won’t be affected by the Brexit vote, the Paris government has said.
Under a bilateral treaty signed in 2003 known as the Le Touquet accord, British officials can check passports in France and vice-versa. This means the English border is effectively pushed back to France and migrants and refugees trying to reach Britain remain stuck in
a no-man’s land at make-shift camps in Calais and on France’s northern coast.
The French foreign minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, dismissed outright calls from politicians on the French right for a post-Brexit renegotiation of the Le Touquet accord that could push the border back to the Kent coast. “Would that also mean putting in place boats for people who otherwise risk drowning? I think we should be serious,” he said in a TV interview.
“On the question of immigration, to be clear, British exit from the
European Union will not lead to changes in terms of immigration treaties with United Kingdom ... These are bilateral treaties,” said the government spokesman and agriculture minister, Stéphane Le Foll.
Since the Brexit vote, the French government has stressed that there would be no change to the border deal with Britain. Because the Le Touquet accord is between
France and Britain directly, and not linked to the European Union, there is no automatic need to renegotiate the deal.
