Brexit poll sees 10-point 'leave' lead two weeks before vote (Britain likely to quit EU)

Chicago Tribune ^ | 06-11-2016 | Robert Hutton

[SunkenCiv]

• EU Referendum: Massive swing to Brexit -- with just 12 days to go (Link Only)

[Winniesboy]

This doesn’t necessarily follow Brexit. The UK border controls in Calais have nothing to do with the EU - they’re a bilateral arrangement between Britain and France. All UK-bound travellers have to pass through them, all EU citizens included. This is because the UK has never been part of the Schengen open-border zone. So none of this would need to change after Brexit, unless one of the two parties decides that it should. (In the case of France not,of course, improbable.)

[miss marmelstein]

Then why are we reading - from people as well informed as you - that Britain, without the EU, will be overrun with the Calais refugees? I’m not taking a stand in this, it’s none of my business, but that is what is being said by people I know who live in GB. Admittedly, most of these folks are against Brexit.

[Winniesboy]

The only explanation I can give is that your informants believe France will abrogate the bilateral agreement in a huff if Britain leaves the EU. Perhaps so, perhaps not.

[miss marmelstein]

Good enough.