FRENCH officials have been blasted for spending British taxpayer cash on “pathetic”; road barriers in a bid to stop small-boat crossings.
They are aimed at preventing people smugglers taking boats, motors and life jackets to beaches.
Two have been installed, including the one pictured here, at Les Hemmes de Marck, a mile east of .
But it is on a road surrounded by flat fields with nothing to stop simply driving around it.
And the barriers are in use only at night.
Reform MP said: “They only close them at night, so free entry to the UK from dawn to dusk?”;
And , chairman of MigrationWatch UK, said: “The French are wasting our money.
“The smugglers will drive around it, it’s pathetic.”;
The barriers are funded by the UK via a treaty that sees us handing £476million to the French.
Marck mayor Corinne Noel said: “Smugglers generally deposit equipment at night, so our goal is to keep the area accessible in the day.”;
The start of this year has seen the most migrant arrivals — almost 6,500 — since records began in 2018.
