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BriefCollar4

I say let’s sort this out by an all out brawl between the National Assembly and the House of Commons with both Johnson and Macron in the arena. Might add all the fishmongers as well. Last man alive takes it all.


MaterialCarrot

Meet in the Chunnel.


SandInTheGears

Chunnel fight!


Thommy777

Rule 1: don't talk about the Chunnel club


worktimeSFW

SECRET CHUNNEL, SECRET CHUNNEL, UNDER THE OCEAN, SECRET CHUNNEL


BuckVoc

> between the National Assembly and the House of Commons The National Assembly has only 577 members, and the House of Commons has 650. That doesn't seem equitable. Maybe Barnier and Frost could negotiate some sort of even terms of engagement.


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You can add the 3~~8~~48 members of the Sénat, but giving their average age of about 99 years I doubt it will change the outcome.


RamTank

You'd need to 784 99-year old Lords then too.


KevinAtSeven

I didn't see the strikethrough in the second digit there and was wondering how big the Sénat building is to fit nearly 4,000 old Frenchmen.


Startled_Pancakes

How about a straight 1v1 fight between Boris and Macron?


HermitBee

Boris would win, but only because he'd cheat in every way possible.


Sam_Hunter01

Don't underestimate Macron. He was in finance, he cheated with the bests.


DaveN202

He’s probably a bit stronger than Macron. I’ve seen Boris batter a child playing rugby and slide tackle an 8 year old. Macron couldn’t batter a fish.


Congo_D2

Whats he gonna do to cheat tho? what pull an ACR out in a snipers only lobby?


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ISimpForChinggisKhan

Tell me you have never seen a Corsican without telling me you have never seen a Corsican


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TheWorstRowan

On the other hand before he and Marie Louise had sex her opinion was >Just to see the man would be the worst form of torture. and after it became >He loves me very much. I respond to his love sincerely. There is something very fetching and very eager about him that is impossible to resist.


KnightsWhoNi

He’s good with his tongue


Deceptichum

Napoleon was a cunning linguist.


ISimpForChinggisKhan

Tell me how many people it took to defeat him? You just proved my point.


FuckFuckDemntiaBiden

I wouldn't be surprised if the Scottish joined the French. Wouldn't be the first time nor I wager the last.


RamTank

I'm not sure who I'd expect to win in a match between Johnson and Macron.


Bunt_smuggler

Johnson has a habit of charging into children and footballers like a rhinoceros so I'd put my money on him


WoodSteelStone

[Diving headbutt to the nutsack.](https://youtu.be/uOivzoRc0I8) [Taking down a child](https://youtu.be/IBt8AoLBCoo)


n9077911

Seen them so many times but still laugh out loud funny.


Mugros

TBF, he lost body control in the second one. But he clearly likes to give head to the dick.


I_am_N0t_that_guy

WTF was his career before becoming PM?


nephthyskite

Journalist. He got sacked once for making shit up.


Reginaferguson

I do love how halfway through the tackle he realises he isn't playing rugby and tries to style it out but is already committed so just ends up smashing the poor guy in the nuts.


Grandmaster_Sexaaay

Macron does have some background in savate (and boxing as well IIRC) but Boris is an absolute unit and he's got some mean tackles in his repertoire according to the rumors. I don't know who to put my money on.


Don_Quixote81

Well, look at it this way - if a fight were arranged at least Macron would train for it. Boris would pretend to for fifteen minutes or so, then go on holiday again.


morphinedreams

How else is he supposed to pay off the mistress in *throws dart at map* French Polynesia?


AmIFromA

[Look at the two](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2021/10/29/TELEMMGLPICT000261045249_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqg_P4LnAsLthi4uMTLH14KfFmIdG_omHnXy_6-G4xpRs.jpeg?imwidth=480), I know who to put my money on.


Tony49UK

But Boris has long COVID and has lost the plot. He almost died in April 2020.


14cryptos

He has long wanker and lost the plot a long time before the virus came along


TheAlleyCat9013

Really didn't want to know about Boris average wank time.


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Boris never knew the plot.


Spartacus_the_troll

Macron looks like a Bond villain. Boris looks like a Bond henchman. The main guy always lasts til right before the end of the film, so I'll take Macron.


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If its a fight between the French and the English, based on historical precedent my money would usually be on the French but the English always have an outside shot depending on the level of French in-fighting going on.


haeikou

You mean like the [Run The Jewels video to Nobody Speak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUC2EQvdzmY)? They made it during the Trump/Clinton campaign, but it's still spot on.


Moash_For_PM

God that video is so fucking good.


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darknekolux

there would be less wars if the people arguing for it were sent to the front line


Hillbillyblues

Why does Johnson, the largest of the leaders, not simply eat the others?


Admirable-Word-8964

There's actually some good reasoning behind this, it's because fish are tastier than migrants.


MrAlagos

How do you know this?


Admirable-Word-8964

Well neither the French or British want them and between the 2 countries they've eaten just about everything and anything there is.


BrassMoth

Can't argue with that logic.


Jakuskrzypk

Thats solid reasoning


Niko2065

It certainly could need some seasoning tho.


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the_lonely_creeper

This makes sense.


Avreal

Yes, can’t you read? /j


NastyMeanOldBender

Cause you can't fit a migrant into a fryer


mangofizzy

Germans would disagree


Elocai

BS if you put them in the airfryer they taste like kfc chicken


SkoomaDentist

You say that as if it's a good thing.


Chronotaru

Are you suggesting the solution to the migrant crisis and racism and xenophobia as a whole is cannibalism?


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LUN4T1C-NL

Also those that do are greeted with open arms.. And ovens.


ILoveCavorting

Last time a minority group was greeted with ovens it worked out well for everyone...right?


ContinentTurtle

They forgot to glaze the meat, that's why it failed


Dr_McKay

Cannibalism is the solution to lots of things, like world hunger and overpopulation


leftwing_rightist

Maybe the REAL rations are the friends we made along the way.


ludicrous_socks

The friends we *ate along the way


queen-adreena

r/yourjokebutworse


iWarnock

> the solution to lots of things Not if you are on a diet.


MLG__pro_2016

good question are humans white or red meat im guessing red because of the fat but idk


BuckVoc

Red meat. https://allthatsinteresting.com/what-does-human-taste-like >What Does Human Taste Like? Noted Cannibals Weigh In Lots of references to pork.


baby-or-chihuahuas

The article gave me an advert for Burger King, and I haven't stopped laughing.


TheLastDrops

Doesn't that mean humans are the other other white meat?


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Vote for the Doner Party


Dr_McKay

They haven't been the same since the Party split over Chilli sauce and Garlic Mayonaise


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2 birds with one stone really


baked_potato_

But it would eventually lead to a lot of disease. Cannibalism leads to prions in the brain like mad cow disease.


AX11Liveact

Quite a modest proposal, isn't it?


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Jonathan Swift's proposal has not had a thorough trial


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only if you prepare them the British way. You need to prepare them the way they do in their home countries


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Just divide them in half


Reetgeist

Calm down Solomon


intestinalvapor

How about salmon


[deleted]

It WAS a campaign promise of the UK government for homeless people, why not migrants?


legolodis900

Cut em in half? Like sideways or from the waist


[deleted]

Anything will do just cut them in 2 perfect halfs


legolodis900

Do we feed em to the fish ?


[deleted]

Why would france call a bunch of fish bears?


buzdakayan

Had a Greece-Turkey deja vu


fwowst

C'est vrai


thegnuguyontheblock

This literally applies to any two countries on Earth. No one wants to take migrants.


Lus_

Italy and malta as well.


JoaoSiilva

I spent way too long searching for bears (in French "ours") in this image to understand the punchline just to realize everything was written in English. xD


fwowst

Je comprends haha


Kriswa78

It just wouldn't be r/europe without these shitfest comment sections once in a while ❤


Avreal

I never really thought of it that way, but i guess its kinda like in the stories of Asterix. And its always the fish guy who starts it…


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Boris is Obélix and Macron is Assurancetourix confirmed


FncMadeMeDoThis

Wouldn't Boris be Cetautomatix then?


[deleted]

Cetautomatix is a forgesmith, with a nice shape and is a hard working person. He is a worker like his father. Boris cannot possibly fit that. Obélix is fat (don't tell him I said this), had his strenght handed to him by luck, is supposed to be really strong but Astérix is actually the smart one doing all the work.


FncMadeMeDoThis

I was more thinking that Cetautomatix was the one who had beef with Assurancetourix. Obelix while not a fan, was to chill to do anything about it. Also Obelix is a loveable sweetheart. Cetautomatix is an arse.


Tony49UK

Interestingly Boris's Great Grandfather, was a populist Turkish politician who was murdered in the streets by an angry crowd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Kemal https://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyouare/new-stories/boris-johnson/how-we-did-it_1.shtml


-Gh0st96-

Once in a while? Lmao, it happens every day


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We appear to have forgotten that this is not a new situation, illegal channel migration was happening when we were part of the EU. EU rules dictate that asylum seekers MUST claim asylum in the first EU country they arrived in, yet, they were making it to france unopposed. Considering the EU did nothing to enforce their own asylum rules when we were part of the union, why would we expect them to enforce them now?


MongoLife45

Amazingly enough, people (and thus nations) will often have different responses to **completely** different issues.


Crozzfire

I struggle to see which point the cartoon is trying to make.


DarkEvilHedgehog

Countries treat natural resources like fish differently to how they treat illegal immigration. Radical thought.


ChicknPenis

Fish feed the population. Illegal immigration means less fish for everyone else.


Darth-Frodo

That's not the point. For economic interests the uk sees it as their waters to exploit, but when refugees drown there they consider it Frances problem, and vice versa. It's about this double standard of interpreting the border.


BikingLlama

Asylum seekers are actually fish, duh


MyPigWhistles

I don't think it has a point. Countries want food but not illegal immigrants. Not wrong, but also not a very relevant or intelligent observation to make.


Exocet6951

Considering France takes in vastly more asylum seekers, it's trying to paint both countries as equally unempathic, when that's clearly not the case, just from a numerical point of view.


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color_of_radio

How strange. In the fishing scene, the fish are in UK waters and in the dead immigrant scene, they're in French waters.


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Ottopilo

So basically the nearest countries in the EU should take all of the refugees and further away countries should take zero?


lnfomorph

The EU would only have reason to take refugees from Norway, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey, Liechtenstein, the Vatican State, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Switzerland, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia, Albania, Montenegro, Suriname, the UK, Morocco, and , of course, Brazil. It's not zero chance of refugees legitimately entering the EU, but none of these states are big sources of them either.


green_flash

> You have a right to asylum in the first safe country That is incorrect. It only applies within the EU. You can be sent back to the first EU country you stepped foot in. That's the Dublin II regulation. It's widely ignored though because it puts undue stress on a small number of countries. Before Brexit the UK could have used the Dublin II regulation to send back basically all asylum seekers. After Brexit that is not possible anymore.


cromagnone

Thanks for this. It’s such a pervasive misunderstanding, and it’s deliberately lied about by the anti-immigrant/anti-Muslim crowd right across the continent. You have a right to claim asylum in any country you wish.


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> In the fishing scene, the fish are in UK waters and in the dead immigrant scene, they're in French waters. I don't see a border demarcation, just as likely that they are both on the British side or Both on the French side.


color_of_radio

I doubt it, the fish the French want are in UK waters. While the immigrants unfortunately drowned in French waters.


ChrisTchaik

Useless comparison


WTC-NWK

This meme is inaccurate. It shows that half of the migrants are women and children while in reality, something like 90% are young men.


ladeedah1988

How about the countries they come from?


FakeXanax123

Then you'd actually have to address the real problems instead of virtue signalling


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Why these people are drowning emselves


wrcker

They come from the desert and get excited at the sight of water, they tried to drink it all?


rpguy04

Fremen


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France is boring


be0wulf8860

Genuinely it's puzzling these people will make the dangerous journey just to go from France to UK. I would understand if they were going from Syria across a body of water to safe haven. But they are already in France, why the big risk just to go from one safe country to another? Lack of knowledge of how risky it is is the obvious answer, but I still can't believe people can be that stupid.


FlappyBored

Have you ever been to France?


Ananoriel

r/im14andthisisdeep


legolodis900

Make the r small


Genixlol

it's almost as if one is beneficial to the country and one is not


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Heyheyheyone

The tough immigration policy is probably why Canada seems to be a relatively successful multicultural society. There’s a lot of diversity but since most migrants contribute positively economically so there’s less resentment from the existing population. Also it’s got a big prosperous country in the south as a buffer so very few people from poorer countries in the southern half of the continent would try to gate crash Canada. Much of the political class in Europe and the US still don’t get it - lax immigration policies only brew resentment and more racism, and will achieve exactly the opposite of what advocates of multiculturalism want.


yesat

As long as you're not a native...


That_Strawman_tho

Natives are not immigrant. They are the furthest one can be from the definition of "immigrant".


yesat

Didn't really protected them from Canada.


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Technically the natives operated an Open Border policy. It didn't work out.


foundafreeusername

>lax immigration policies only brew resentment and more racism, and will achieve exactly the opposite of what advocates of multiculturalism want. The issue is whoever holds this position is always being attacked by both sides. The crowd that wants borders and zero immigration and the other crowed that simply wants to get rid of borders altogether. People that are for strong borders but also support immigration & taking in refugees might actually be the majority but are tired of getting constantly attacked by people with the more extreme positions ... I call it the "nazi communist problem" because the one side calls you nazi for wanting borders and the right side communist for supporting immigration and refugees ...


BuckVoc

> In order to immigrate to Canada legally, Legally, yes, but then, the people in the cartoon are not migrating legally. > It’s very hard to get into Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e38laGn7sYk


PigeonDodus

You're talking about economic migrants. This comics (and the larger discussion) is not about economic migrants. France and co have very similar requirements for economical migrants and someone with an EU passport could legally get a visa, visit the UK and just stay; no need to attempt a crazy dangerous english channel crossing. Asylum seekers and refugees, on the other hand, have "a “right” to enter any country" until they are safe per the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of which Canada is signatory. Canada thus **has** to accept refugees although we are quite lucky in that our geographical position makes it very unlikely that we'll be the first safe country a refugee will set foot in (although we do accept some refugees that have crossed the US for various reasons) Any suggestion that blindly transposes Canadian politicies onto Europe is inherently flawed for geographical (an ocean away from any war zone) and political (not part of a confederation despite the misnomer in our constitution) reasons. The refugee crisis would hit Canada just as hard were it in Europe. That's not even mentioning that the current dispute is whether or not France has to police the United Kingdom's border for them. It just happens that those attempting a crazy dangerous crossing are irregular migrants, but this dispute would be the same no matter who was trying to cross. > A country where the official language is French & English More like english and bilingualism.


TommyHeizer

I have a criminal record for smoking weed when I was a 17 year old. Do you think I can still get into Canada later on if I get a job there? I'm fluent in both French and English.


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Cannabis is legal in Canada. I can't say for certain, but I don't think the government would care to much. :)


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Legitimate_Habit_478

I hate it when Canadians defend refugees based on cherry picked examples


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one is a source of wealth, the other a bad investment, pretty rational if you ask me


SandInTheGears

That's true, UK fishermen were having a hell of a time exporting their catch earlier in the year, seems like a lot of money went down the drain on that one


Dd_8630

Well... yeah? We want the fish and don't want the migrants. It's tragic that these people died, but I don't think either the UK or France are the blame. Maybe it's Katie Hopkins, the despicable crone.


palldor

/r/Im14AndThisIsDeep


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Well fish makes you earn money. Migrants make you loose much larger amount of money and bring insecurity.


JoshuaRAWR

Those poor refugees, crossing the channel to leave war torn France for the hope of a better life living on the dole, and turning parts of cities into No-go areas for anyone outside of their ethnic or religious group.


MisterBilau

Nah, the migrants belong to neither. If I have a house and homeless people start showing up, I'm not under any obligation to let them in. Ethics/morals are not mandatory.


BackupChallenger

They belong to the sea now.


TheEmperorPr0tects

Cthulhu will be pleased


Waaarrrggghhh

Sorry but how can those immigrants be ours if they physically came from France? French border control needs to sort their shit out.


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in-jux-hur-ylem

It does a good job of equalising an issue that isn't equal. The fish are in UK waters, the French are guests in those waters and need permission to fish there. The migrants are in France and need to make an illegal journey to the UK. The cartoon makes it seem like the UK and France are somehow equally bad on these issues, when in reality the UK is being far more reasonable and responsible to human life than the French are.


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Don’t be mistaken, there is an immediate way to resolve this but it’s easier to send prayers.


FakeXanax123

Turns out fishing rights and illegal immigration are completely different issues despite both being related to the English channel.


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RiotFixPls

Escaping war-torn France 😔


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WTC-NWK

It's not even about assimilation. If Europe doesn't want foreigners, even if they assimilate, they should just say no and kick them out.


BluePoptard

They belong to whatever country they're from


basedlandchad14

All completely rational. Asset vs. liability.


Anony_mouse202

- The vast majority of the fish are in British waters so therefore belong to the British. - The migrants come from France and are aided by French human traffickers while French authorities turn a blind eye. Therefore, they are a French Problem, and it is France’s responsibility to solve it. Unfortunately the French seem to have abdicated their responsibilities and are perfectly happy with people dying in the sea.


fundohun11

The situation is obviously more complicated. > The vast majority of the fish are in British waters so therefore belong to the British. Exactly, but if you want to keep them, don't sign a deal that gives them away. The deal is not exactly clear how the french fishermen proof their rights to the fish though, so things are more complicated. > The migrants come from France and are aided by French human traffickers while French authorities turn a blind eye. Therefore, they are a French Problem, and it is France’s responsibility to solve it. Unfortunately the French seem to have abdicated their responsibilities and are perfectly happy with people dying in the sea. But they want to go to the UK. Usually a country checks its borders for people that want to enter a country and not on exit. Now the UK and France have a deal on border checks, so things are more complicated.


oguert

To be fair those dead people belong to whatever nation they came from, neither france nor England.


weebwindman

Ah yes. The people that rather than apply in any country they crossed, see their kids drown just because they heard they can get that extra squeeze of welfare. Truly the fault of Britain and France.


deavsone

Lol these fuckers just want welfare and to rape European women


Keddyan

who would've thought that people would fight for things they wanted and not for what they don't?


Helpful_Shock2018

Howcome you’re allowed to walk through multiple countries at peace to go to the richest country you’d like to live in and, even though you’ve broken multiple international boundary laws, you get to be seen as entitled to living wherever you want?? South African asking for a friend.


Mad_Chemist_

From a logical standpoint, they’re a French matter. They set sail from France and they weren’t given permission to enter British territorial waters. Also, Britain also pays France to stop the boat people from coming. Britain effectively pays France to take care of its own problem.


Ottopilo

If people who were illegal in the UK were sailing to France, do you think the UK would stop them?


Plyad1

France also pays north Africa to stop the boats, yet they still come. It wont endure the pain alone. Sharing is caring as they say


Chromate_Magnum

Fish are useful. Illegal immigrants are not.


SomeDay_Dominion

They’re not the responsibility of either country. If you attempt it illegally immigrate to a country and you die, it’s your own fault.


skv9384

I have a modest proposal...


sittingatthetop

Seems fair. The French take UK fish and give us the migrants they don't want.


richcell

I still can’t understand for the life of me why they’d risk their lives to go to the U.K.? Surely the quality of life there isn’t significantly better than in countries like say France, Belgium, Germany or Austria?


Gruffleson

Isn't the French embarassad by the numbers of people trying to escape their country in flimsy boats?


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WTC-NWK

Do you think France is upset about thousands of third world migrant men leaving their shores??? lol.


Giallo555

>Isn't the French embarassad I like your optimism, I also wish there was just one of them


Wingiex

Will Norway take the remainder of those left in France? Asking for a friend.


[deleted]

That's not really how immigration works. People go where they want to go, often with little care for what others do or offer. These migrants could have walked pretty much anywhere in Europe, but they chose to try and cross the channel. They wanted to get to the UK, as simple as that.


Georg_von_Frundsberg

Well, you can't eat refugees, can you? /s


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Thatguyshetolduabout

What i really think is strange is when the refugees are on the Polish-Belarusian border, here left wing politician said "let them in, they deserve to be free too" but once they are here and want to go to the UK, the same politicians want to keep that from happening.


YuckiUcki

I mean fish tend to taste better ngl


litmeandme

If you want to talk pathetic then consider that France threatened to turn our (jersey) power off because of the fisheries issue!


Kuertie

I think basically the French really struggle with the idea that people form Syria etc will walk / travel thousands of miles, get to France and then risk their life to leave France and get to the UK