Let UK do its own border dirty work - Controlling back door entry to UK

TWO of the wildest claims knowingly advanced before Britain voted on EU membership in June were that secession would give Britain an extra £350m a week to spend and that independence would return control of Britain’s borders to the people of Britain. 

The £350m-a-week claim has been sent back to the colourful, exciting place the bewildered go to renew their fantasies; like a child’s letter to Santa Claus it served a passing need even if only to distract and defer reality. It was and is complete bunkum. Now the claim about Britain taking control of their borders is another of the red-white-and-blue porkies used to mislead the British electorate. Britain wants to shift frontline immigration controls to our ports and airports if the reintroduction of a hard border between the Republic and the North is to be avoided.

It might be sensationalist, though not by any means as sensationalist as some of the claims made by the “Leave” campaign, to suggest that this push-back-the-perimeter idea might mean that the appalling refguee camp at Calais — The Jungle — might move to Clones or some ailing border community looking ever-more like a ghost town because of the post-Brexit vote collapse of sterling.