Janice Atkinson (ENF). – Madam President, last week Frontex guards dressed up like paramilitary forces and deported 200 migrants from Greece: clearly a staged show of force to pretend the EU-Turkey blackmail deal is a success. The same day as 200 migrants were deported, another 300 entered Greece. Do you really believe the people are being fooled so easily?

The truth is that since the blackmail deal, another 5 000 migrants have been smuggled into Greece. We had a million migrants enter the EU last year alone. How are you going to hold back the next tsunami of migrants? We have to take back control of our own borders. It is truly worrying to see the UK border forces committing to this farce. Our own border force is understaffed and underfunded. Other countries have hundreds of patrol boats; the UK’s coastguard has a mere five, two of which were sent to the Mediterranean. This is a symbolic gesture but has left the UK’s borders open and vulnerable. The money – the British taxpayers’ money – given over to Turkey for this blackmail deal could have bought 80 Border Force cutters to keep my country safe. We cannot let this happen. We have handed our keys over to the EU, so therefore we must Brexit.