Thousands of people have been loaded onto buses outside the squalid Calais migrant camp and taken to asylum centres dotted around the French countryside in a bid by the government to shut down the so-called ‘jungle’ once and for all.

Nicolas Sarkozy, who is hoping to be chosen as his party’s candidate for the presidential elections next year, has attacked the French government’s plan for Calais – accusing them of having dismantled “nothing at all” in rehousing “11,000 unfortunate migrants.”

He told France 5:

“When I left the presidency, there were fewer than 1,000 migrants in Calais; now we talk about 11,000.

We haven’t dismantled anything at all. We’re taking the 11,000 unfortunates there, and spread them out in France.

Are we going to give them papers? I don’t understand this government’s politics.”

He said that 90 per cent wanted to get to Great Britain, and only 5 per cent were eligible.

He also said, falsely, that Britain returns migrants to Sudan and Eritrea.

“Great Britain sends the Sudanese back to Sudan; the Eritreans back to Eritrea. Germany does the same.

Parts of these countries are at war.”

When told by his interviewers that, according to the spokesman for the interior minister, the majority were eligible for asylum, Mr Sarkozy replied:

“If they were eligible, why keep them for five years in the Jungle?

If they were eligible, they should have been given their papers.”

 

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Why keep them for five years?

Why indeed,  Mr Sarkozy, why indeed.

(Oh, and Jeezus… Get over the whole Channel rivalry and stop shitting on the U.K. for no other reaso n than its there. Jeezus…)