In order to get Brexiteers on her side, May is trying every political tricks in the book; promoting people to the Privy Council (no, me neither) and giving John Redwood a knighthood for "services to politics". Or voting to keep the poor in their place.
Meanwhile there has been a surge in people trying to cross the Channel, by paying gangmasters.
There are desperate people fleeing persecution in the Middle Eastern homelands, crossing Europe to get to UK.
All this is true, as is that once captured that can be returned to France under EU repatriation agreements, something that would need to be replaced post-Brexit, lest people so intercepted would have to be kept in the UK.
The Government, with the BBC helping them, have ramped up the rhetoric of this story making 200 people sound like an invasion. There has been a massive drop in refugees in the eastern Mediterranean that the conflict areas are more stable than they were. But with Trump announcing, without any implications considered, that US troops would be pulled out of Syria. Meaning there will be a vacuum, and it will be civillians who will suffer the most and so try to get out, sending a new wave of refugees into Europe.
Parliament is still on Christmas break, won't be back until after next week, and today marks the midway point in the six month ratification period. There is just three months left before Brexit, time is very much running out.
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