How to P"""" off the French

[west didsblue]

If the policy was 100% successful then they spent navel resources turning back a grand total of 800 people over seven years.

What’s the point other than to play silly buggers with boats?

How would belly button fluff turn migrant's boats round?

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Oops Sorry

The Chinese scramble to mine Africa

25-fold investment jump in less than a decade. That's how fast China's gaining control over Africa’s mining industry. And Beijing's only pushing harder now.

www.mining.com

Over the last few decades, China has built itself a very solid powerbase by investing in countries in Africa (see also Cuba, Venezuela), with a huge amount of the US national debt in there as well.
Putin has largely followed the same approach of gaining influence stealthily in regions of interest to them.

 

[ganganvince]

If the policy was 100% successful then they spent navel resources turning back a grand total of 800 people over seven years.

What’s the point other than to play silly buggers with boats?

To discourage others from trying and allow migrants classed as the most in need to enter by the correct channels.

 

[BobKowalski]

How would belly button fluff turn migrant's boats round?

Lol. Got me there :)

 

[BobKowalski]

It’s all getting a bit surreal...

 

[Chris in London]

It’s all getting a bit surreal...

Well if Boris tells them it’s not divisive that’s alright then. The French are bound to accept Boris’ word, aren’t they?

 

[smudgedj]

Thatcher requested France not go through with the sale of Exocet misses to Peru for fear they would end up in Argentine hands. France complied.

The US put pressure on Thatcher to abandon plans to retake the islands and instead allow a third party peace keeping force. Haig, if you recall, was dispatched to try and mediate a peaceful resolution.

This is all a matter of record.

Lol Requested. - That’s not Mitterrand’s recollection.

 

[BobKowalski]

Lol Requested. - That’s not Mitterrand’s recollection.

I think you are getting confused by the porno version - Lady Snatch Eats French Pussies.

 

[smudgedj]

I think you are getting confused by the porno version - Lady Snatch Eats French Pussies.

"the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe"

 

[BobKowalski]

"the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe"

It’s a great line, and demonstrates that Mitterrand wanted nothing more than to be humiliated and chastised by Thatcher. The idea Mitterrand would have crossed Thatcher over the Falklands is absurd. He adored her.