“If they were your kids would you want them to be half helped in these countries or have all the benefits that living in the U.k would bring?”
If they were my kids, Lunol, they would be with me and/or their mother.
I’m sorry you find my remarks disgusting, but they are a matter of fact. The rules are that asylum should be claimed in the first safe country the claimant arrives in. That is never the UK (unless they arrive by air) and hardly ever France. Once they fail to claim asylum in the first safe country they lose their right to immunity from action for entering a country illegally and are simply illegal immigrants (as per Article 31 of the UN’s 1951 Convention on the status of refugees). It is the EU and its ridiculous Schengen Agreement that has given migrants the freedom to roam across the continent seeking a destination of their choice and the UK’s refusal to sign that agreement that has led to them congregating in Calais. Tough, but nonetheless a fact.
The fact that other European nations tend to ignore their responsibilities towards these people in no way shifts the burden to the UK. You may enjoy a good feeling by being taken for a ride, not only by the illegal immigrants but also France. Many people here do not. When France (and the rest of the EU) signed up to Schengen, adequate and clear warnings were voiced that, whilst the agreement would indeed provide freedom of movement for people entitled to be in the EU, it would also provide the same freedom for people who were not so entitled. Those warnings were ignored, the chickens have come home to roost and most of mainland Europe now faces a problem of epic proportions. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever why the results of their folly should be visited upon the UK.