What is the answer?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=509833&in_page_i d=1770&in_a_source=

Should we give the French the good old Agincourt two fingered salute.

[tiggerblue10]

Another good excuse from the French Authortities no doubt!

[jake-the-peg]

You clearly have no concern for the potential health effects on Lorry drivers using the port day in and day out do you?

I wonder what you'd say if the Government xray'd you every time you went down the road!

Actually I've got a pretty good idea what you'd say!

[ludwig]

On one hand you've got to admire the french because they're happy to do what suits their own interests and tell everyone else to f off.

On the other hand you've got to hate the french because they're happy to do what suits their own interests and tell everyone else to f off.

[anotheoldgit]

Oh Jake are you as thick as you make out to be?

Don't you think that the driver would step aside while his vehicle was being checked?

If you are really concerned for the illegal immigrants, which I think is your real concern, here is an excerpt from the report.

"Anyone scanned receives a radiation dose equivalent to less than a thousandth of the background radiation they would normally receive in a year".

[sp1814]

I wonder what'll happen if a consignment of shop mannequins comes through the port?

Imagine the (slightly) hilarious results.

[Lonnie]

Love ludwigs answer, however, the answer wold be for the border guards to take their time thoroughly searching each and every lorry, let them block back all the way to Paris if necessry.
Imagine the chaos.

[delboy3]

What is the answer?

The answer is to stop reading this bullsh1t excuse for a newspaper.

[jno]

so what exactly stops them doing the scanning on this side of the channel?

[Oneeyedvic]

I think the problem jno is that if we stop them this side of the channel then they are in the UK and must be treated by us as asylum seekers / illegal immigrants.

If they are stopped in Calais then they are the problem of the French and not our problem.

[Oneeyedvic]

I would just be interested to find out if this is true though.

There seem to be only 6 references to it via Google- and they are either the Mail / Standard (same paper) or other papers which credit the Mail.

[jno]

thanks, Vic. But as it is our problem, perhaps we should deal with it.

If it's happened outside the pages of the Mail.

[jno]

might tend to slow the trains down, Invisible - so I bet the ferry companies like the idea, though.

[Gromit]

You can give the French the good old Agincourt two fingered salute, if it will make you feel better. What will that achieve?

[jno]

bear in mind that the Agincourt reference is an urban myth

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/plucky ew.asp

[Gromit]

A British Government source said...

Another source in the immigration service added...

A Home Office spokesman said...

A lot of unattributed sources in that Daily Mail report. The DM is not usually so reticent about naming names, I wonder if they are unsure of their facts?

[jake-the-peg]

No AOG I'm not that thick - In fact I used to work for the atomic energy authority as a physicist and I know very well about gamma rays - which I suspect is more than you do!

I'm frankly quite appalled at some of the things being said about this.

Ask yourself why radiographers wear lead overalls and recall (hah!) how much more penetrating gamma rays are!

I don't believe a damn word about that background radiation stuff, because the energy of the radiation is not comparable.

[tiggerblue10]

Lol @ Newsdesk.

Well I do like to liven thinks up in the News section. I should also purchase a Speak and Spell but won't as Newsy gives free lessons ;-)