Austria Acts.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

[anotheoldgit]

Sorry wrong link before.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4663920/Austria-control-Italy-border-send-armoured-vehicles-block-migrants-ministry.html

[agchristie]

Not the type of response that Italy was hoping for in its appeal to Europe...

[ToraToraTora]

Italy and indeed the rest of the EU would do well to follow the Austrian example.

[anotheoldgit]

Don't expect an easy solution from the EU.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4666072/EU-tells-Britain-Med-migrants.html

[douglas9401]

Is this not what you do when faced with invasion?

[anotheoldgit]

douglas9401

And indeed that is what it is, but why do some prefer to call it a migration but not an invasion?

[ummmm]

Because it's not an invasion.

[webbo3]

umm, \\ Because it's not an invasion.//

From here.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/04/austrian-troops-to-stop-migrants-crossing-border-with-italy


\\A record number of people are expected to cross the Mediterranean sea in 2017, with arrivals 20% higher than this time last year. Since January, 85,183 people have arrived in Italy, compared with 71,279 last year, according to the latest data from the International Organization for Migration. A total of 2,150 are reported to have drowned in the central Mediterranean this year.//


85,000 since January, sounds like an invasion to me.


Dave.

[ToraToraTora]

of course it's an invasion, what else could it be?

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

Then what is it?

The English Oxford Dictionary seems to think so.

/// An incursion by a large number of people or things into a place or sphere of activity. ///

/// An unwelcome intrusion into another's domain. ///

[vulcan42]

An invasion certainly, in the same article the UN admit seven out of ten coming from Libya are not refugees.

[HansUrbancka]

I am watching Wimbledon tennis on TV and it is the case that the courts have been' invaded' by plagues of Flying Aunts.

Italy is being invaded by illegal immigrants and we could be on the list to be invaded by what the EU would have us believe are legal immigrants, because they have entered a European Country and are free to go wherever they like within Europe.

I hope I am using, correctly, the words' invade', 'invading', because I think ummmm does Not really know the true meaning of the word.

Hans.

[cassa333]

Does the EU just want to offload as many as possible on the UK to ease the problem that they will have in 18months time?

This will show how firm the PM is willing to be with the EU.


However from your first link. The man in the blue polo shirt should be ashamed of himself.

[Jackdaw33]

Flying aunts? I'm trying to picture that.

[albaqwerty]

flying aunts, Jack, they're the ones playing Quidditch in the old Wizards Home

[HansUrbancka]

Hi jackdaw.....now you know that my spelling is atrocious and that there are some wirds which are not corrected by my chell specker.

Hans.

[ToraToraTora]

there's flying uncles now!