Is the UK now giving off strong Third World vibes?

I don't think you have any understanding of why the refugees go to Britain. It isn't because of poor conditions in France by any means.

Britain pays France to try to control their borders, the UK is no more capable of doing it now than they were in the EU. The difference is that France has no need to bother what Britain does with "asylum applicants" now as they cannot become citizens of an EU country because of UK government incompetence.

The clue is in their inability to set up customs to inspect imports.

Read my post again. I gave the quote in italics, and after the word Quote.

The French cannot even stop thousands of poor refugees leaving their shores in dangerous little rubber boats, never mind care about intercepting Russian jets off our west coast. France is such an awful state that the British are having to give them hundreds of millions of pounds to try to stop the refugees leaving France for England. Quote " March 10 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday that Britain will give France 480 million pounds ($577 million) over three years to invest in police, technology and intelligence to help reduce the number of asylum seekers arriving on English shores in small boats from France."

I meant to say "double quotation marks", not "italyics".

Same difference, as it is after the word quote.

The French cannot even stop thousands of poor refugees leaving their shores in dangerous little rubber boats, never mind care about intercepting Russian jets off our west coast. France is such an awful state that the British are having to give them hundreds of millions of pounds to try to stop the refugees leaving France for England. Quote " March 10 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday that Britain will give France 480 million pounds ($577 million) over three years to invest in police, technology and intelligence to help reduce the number of asylum seekers arriving on English shores in small boats from France."

Britain giving France 480 million pounds ($577 million) over three years to invest in police, technology and intelligence is a lot of money. It is a pity that France has those dirty canvas tented slums, the likes of which you would only see in deprived parts of Africa and the middle East. Imagine risking you life to leave that?

Talks between EU members on illegal immigration are via the EU, whereas illegal immigrants leaving for Britain is not an EU issue. Since Brexit Britain is effectively a dumping ground.

If they have committed no crime, why disturb them?

Maybe EU countries value humanity above what some place looks like. It isn't France that wants to opt out of the ECHR you know?

I would imagine that just leaving them reduces the cost of court cases and eventually they will no doubt arrive at their desired destination.

France has a duty of care if it takes someone into custody or indeed if it does anything to condone or encourage the camps. It cannot be very popular with the French anyway as while in the EU the blame for the migrant crisis was put squarely on the EU and France in particular. It must be nice to see the chickens roosting and getting paid for it too.

The migrants were and are a Tory PR exercise.

One of the attractions of HS2 when Stoke put in for a station were the number of extra people it would bring in to expand the population of the place.

Expand the population when the IQ zero's are all parading up and down asylum seekers accommodation :-)

Whatever, we seem to be worse in Ireland, even though you may sneer at the British. If you google "literacy in Ireland", it says "The OECD Adult Skills Survey shows that 17.9% or about 1 in 6, Irish adults are at or below level 1 on a five level literacy scale. At this level a person may be unable to understand basic written information. 25% or 1 in 4 Irish adults score at or below level 1 for numeracy."

Surely literacy is a sign if a country is third world no not, the subject of this thread?

If you believe nothing you hear and half of what you see then those boats are going in one direction in the channel.

you learn to read in primary school, not secondary school. It still does not explain the poor performance of Ireland versus the UK in regards to literacy.

britain decided to privatize it's rail in the early 90s, slowly began doing it from around 1994 and completing it in 1997, nothing to do with EU rail directives which do not mandate privatization but private access which is very different.

that was it's choice and they did it as they wanted to get out of paying for it, trying to have the private sector take it on and pay for it all.

a few years and a couple of serious rail crashes later, the private track operator collapsed and that part is back in state control, with the british government now paying up to anything from 4 to 6 times more for the whole operation then it did under british rail.

the only thing ireland has a derogation on is tendering out of services but quite frankly, given the flop of that in germany, that derogation is likely to remain and that part of the rail directives is likely going to be dropped eventually.

but what we do have to do and we do do it, is allow any private operation that wants to operate here of their own accord, to do so, they just won't bother because the yield isn't there and the track access charges are the second highest in europe.