"Unofficial" Population Policies?
The video embedded above raises inchoate questions about unofficial or quasi-official UK and French policies on migrants. On the arrival of the super-dinghy in Portsmouth that spurred anti-migrant demonstrations over the weekend, Grannyopterix says at 4:20, The important thing for a non-Brit to know, any Brit who has taken a ship between Dover and France knows that this neck of water is where the Atlantic and the North Sea bump into each other. It is notoriously rough and dangerous water. And this dinghy went from here, down here, along here, and up there. That's a long journey, and it's not like the short route, is it? . . . It would have had to have been escorted. Apparently it took ten hours for that dinghy to get from here to there. That requires a certain amount of planning and support, I'd say. OK, so, they went from Gravelines to Portsmouth, and started off by the French police. Now, after that, when they landed in Portsmouth, there was this entire line of buse...