Nigel Farage Is Angry That France Has Taken Control Of Its Borders

The Brexiteer accused European countries of acting like "thugs and bullies".
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If there’s one thing the UK is learning at this very moment, it’s that it is most definitely possible to be part of the EU and control your own borders.

This is being amply demonstrated by France, which has banned lorries carrying freight from Britain amid fears over the new mutant coronavirus strain.

It’s even written in lights on big signs at the Port of Dover.

Police and port staff turn away vehicles from the Port of Dover in Kent.
Police and port staff turn away vehicles from the Port of Dover in Kent.
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If this sounds eerily familiar, it’s because Brexiteers have spent the last five years harping on about just how important controlling our own borders is.

We've just spent 5 years at war with each other, devalued the £ by 20%, savaged our economy, quit the world's largest free trade zone, created a mountain of red tape & flushed £200bn down the drain to 'control our borders'. 6 EU states just did it in 24 hours with a press release

— Howard Goodall (@Howard_Goodall) December 21, 2020

At the forefront of the Brexit charge was one Nigel Farage.

The British people voted to Leave so that we can control our borders like every normal country in the world does.https://t.co/tyQMR0iNj5

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) July 20, 2016

Yet now that France has done just that, Farage is more than a little annoyed, accusing European countries of acting like “thugs and bullies”.

We are dealing with thugs and bullies who want to make us sign a bad deal.

Time to walk away, to hell with the EU. https://t.co/6LFjA3mvaq

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) December 20, 2020

His tweet drew a scathing response.

Wonder how @Nigel_Farage explains Canada, Chile & El Salvador cutting us off too? Are they also ‘thugs and bullies trying to make us sign bad deals’ - or like our neighbours in Europe, simply nations trying to protect their citizens? https://t.co/sme6IdfWyA

— Ian Birrell (@ianbirrell) December 21, 2020

Yesterday you were wanking on about how China let the disease spread and now you’re crying your tits off about France closing their borders because of a potentially fast-spreading new strain in the UK, you grifting charlatan bag of shit.

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) December 20, 2020

Nigel Farage complains that the EU have closed borders against the UK.

Nigel Farage campaigned for decades for the UK to close borders against the EU.

Nigel Farage is a bit thick, isn't he? #BrexitIsland https://t.co/k2ycn4w5xz

— Jane Carnall (@EyeEdinburgh) December 21, 2020

Farage wasn’t alone in his Brexiteer outrage – Tory MP John Redwood called the chaos “bad news” and then suggested we pave one half of the country while using the other half to grow all the fruit and vegetables we import because they aren’t suited to a British climate.

French closure of ports owing to CV19 whilst we are in the single market is bad news. Time to use the lorry parks we have built. We rely on imports too much. Let’s grow and make more at home.

— John Redwood (@johnredwood) December 21, 2020

Another Tory MP, Andrew Bridgen, called the move a “massive overreaction” and accused “dictator” France of “trying to hold the UK to ransom”.

He then suggested there was a grand fish-based conspiracy and not just general concern over the spread of an even more contagious strain of a highly-contagious virus.

Massive over reaction by France in closing borders and interrupting trade due to the new strain of Covid 19. Trying to hold the U.K to ransom is the modus operandi of successive dictators we have defeated. Definitely something “fishy” about all this.

— Andrew Bridgen (@ABridgen) December 21, 2020

In the latest developments, France appears set to end a ban on hauliers crossing the Channel that was imposed due to fears about the spread of the new coronavirus strain.

Its transport minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said a protocol would be adopted at an EU-wide level “to ensure that movement from the UK can resume”.

The UK has been cut off from large parts of Europe – and some other areas of the world – as authorities imposed bans on passengers because of concern about the more infectious mutant coronavirus.

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