France Threatens Britain with a Migrant Flood

France Threatens British with Wave of Immigrants

The French warned Britain recently that they would end border controls and allow hordes of migrants to flood Britian if voters decided to leave the European Union.

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron also said France would open its arms to British-based banks wanting to stay in the bloc, in comments published just before Prime Minister David Cameron met President Francois Hollande at an Anglo-French security summit.

Cameron has made protecting security a key argument in his campaign to keep Britain in the European Union in a referendum on June 23 and suggested last month that refugees living in a camp in the French town of Calais could flock to England if British voters decided to leave.

After meeting Cameron in Amiens, 120 km (75 miles) north of Paris, Hollande also said there would be consequences for Britain if it left but did not want “to exert pressure on the British people”.

Britain’s eurosceptics said the warnings were stage-managed, coordinated by the British government and part of a campaign of scare tactics to win the EU membership referendum.

Peter Bone, co-founder of “Out” campaign Grassroots Out, called Macron’s argument preposterous.

“If asylum seekers start arriving at Dover, we will send them straight back. As an independent nation, outside of the EU, we will control our own borders whether the French government likes it or not,” he said in a statement.

A British exit would rock the EU – already shaken by differences over migration and by fragility within the euro zone – by ripping away its second-largest economy, one of its top two military powers and by far its richest financial centre.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Europe could become less stable if Britain leaves and that the bloc could also become less competitive.

Much of big business supports Britain staying in and according to a Reuters poll, foreign exchange strategists said Britain’s economy would be worse off if the country left. None of the 45 strategists polled by Reuters this week said the economy would benefit if the “Out” campaign wins.

But opponents of EU membership, including Cameron’s main Conservative party rival, London Mayor Boris Johnson, said a vote to leave was Britain’s chance to break free.

“Let’s believe in ourselves again, rather than clutching the skirts of Brussels,” Johnson wrote in The Sun newspaper.

So even in the European Union we see that the waves of immigrants represent a clash of wills between big business looking for cheap labor, and citizens who are concerned about sovereign integrity and the ability of citizens to have more control over the limits government.

The United States should take note that a larger government bureaucracy such as is in place with the European Union is never to the benefit of the populace, and that the government elites, in this case leaders in other countries, are willing to do damage in order to maintain control over those whom they purportedly are trying to help.

Source: uk.reuters.com