Last time I checked France take 4x the refugees/migrants/people that we do. If some migrants want to come to the UK for reasons such as language or family what is the point in France stopping them? The UK border force also operate in France, if the French were being as difficult as the right wing element claim, they'd pull the rug on that one. I'm bored of hearing how it's the fault of the French, migrants are "illegally" travelling none of it is true. The right wing element should be delirious we have had a right wing government for a considerable period of time. All I hear is them blaming others and moaning?
Took or were a transit point?
The root cause is global inequality.
There is zero desire to change that at supranational level.
The EU, NAFTA, Trans-Pacific and all the others are all protectionist trading blocks which keeps loads of countries very poor.
And that's before we get to the exploitation of the mineral wealth of some nations and the piss taking, fraudulent politicians which run them who take back handers from corrupt private companies.
Poor people want to move to areas with more wealth and therefore we have migration; create wealth in those places and they stay.
Far too many powerful people unaffected and probably benefitting from the global movement of people for it to change, especially as it will mean losing some of our own living standards as part of the deal.
File it under 'too hard to deal with' like climate change and the rest.
Meanwhile, 31 people dying is an acceptable price to pay to keep up the pretence that we and the French are doing something about it.
Nobody who can do anything about it anywhere genuinely gives a shit.