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incursion of 2000 monday.
incursion of 1000 and one death last night.
tonight?
tomorrow night?
next week?
on the basis that water can't be shovelled with a pitchfork, what's the betting that Cameron's "government will do everything it can to combat the crisis" pledge will mean dismantling the border? it will after all make all the current issues go away overnight.
incursion of 2000 monday.
incursion of 1000 and one death last night.
tonight?
tomorrow night?
next week?
on the basis that water can't be shovelled with a pitchfork, what's the betting that Cameron's "government will do everything it can to combat the crisis" pledge will mean dismantling the border? it will after all make all the current issues go away overnight.
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The French have military and police forces and - of all things - a tunnel entrance must surely be the easiest thing in the world to 'defend'. A ferry terminal, too, occupies a relatively small area, so fences and passport checks should be quite effective in barring entry to anyone who does not qualify for further travel through it.
Why is it that we see so many films of slow-moving lorries approaching Calais being surrounded by migrants and broken into with nary a policeman in sight?
The fact that so many of these desperate people WANT to come to the UK does not alter the fact that they are actually IN France and, thus, the responsibility of the French authorities.
Why is it that we see so many films of slow-moving lorries approaching Calais being surrounded by migrants and broken into with nary a policeman in sight?
The fact that so many of these desperate people WANT to come to the UK does not alter the fact that they are actually IN France and, thus, the responsibility of the French authorities.
The French need to get a grip here. If it was an airport that was being besieged 24 hours a day, the riot police would have been out in force. After all, the French Police have not normally been know as shy and retiring have they !
I have listened to the Today Program this morning, and it was reported that people are walking down the railway tracks, trying to get into the Tunnel. If they are caught by the Police, they are then put into a bus, driven a few km back from the coast and let out again. So these people then walk back down the track and have another go. This is ludicrous !
I have listened to the Today Program this morning, and it was reported that people are walking down the railway tracks, trying to get into the Tunnel. If they are caught by the Police, they are then put into a bus, driven a few km back from the coast and let out again. So these people then walk back down the track and have another go. This is ludicrous !
Funding a few more wire fences are just going to provide more targets for the wire cutters. These groups are acting illegally and need to be dispersed. If the French just leave them it'll just get worse and worse and the end result will be troops having to be brought in to clear the result; because no one given authority was strong enough to use it to clear the issue when it should have been nipped in the bud.
Shame on the French authorities.
(Maybe we should just block our end up at Dover and go back to sailing more ferries.)
Shame on the French authorities.
(Maybe we should just block our end up at Dover and go back to sailing more ferries.)
Apparently there is a plan being discussed to remove them
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This whole thing mystifies me, can someone answer these questions please:
1) why do they no apply for asylum in France
2) Why do we even talk to any that make it here, rather than just send them back
3) Why do France not stop them getting into France at all?
4) Why do we not enforce the only useful EU law, that they must apply in the first safe country?
They need to install automatic steel shutters on the tunnel entrance that open and close in between trains.
1) why do they no apply for asylum in France
2) Why do we even talk to any that make it here, rather than just send them back
3) Why do France not stop them getting into France at all?
4) Why do we not enforce the only useful EU law, that they must apply in the first safe country?
They need to install automatic steel shutters on the tunnel entrance that open and close in between trains.
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Isn't it time to call a spade a shovel. Let's stop all the pretence, if the immigrants are black then they have come from the African continent, never mind where, transport them back to Africa to find their own way home, if they managed to do it one way they should have no trouble getting back. Anyone causing disruption at the ferry terminals should be arrested & deported, what is so difficult about that ?
