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The French are right about the Calais migrant crisis
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it is Britain's fault.
As long as we keep offering gilt-edged invitations and incentives to immigrants, they'll keep on coming
why is everyone blaming the French? It's not their job to stop people leaving their country
As long as we keep offering gilt-edged invitations and incentives to immigrants, they'll keep on coming
why is everyone blaming the French? It's not their job to stop people leaving their country
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No its their to stop them getting in there in the first place
We are kicking out plenty of foreigners. Michael Rosen is moaning as per usual about it.
France is a fully paid up member of the Schengen agreement. Totally free and open borders. There's not much they can do
Is it. Surely its a decision for the French as to who is allowed in their country.
As long as they are not making any claims on the state, the French may be quite happy to use them as training for their riot police.
I thought the British never admit that anyone across the channel are right about anything
Yes, the French should stop them getting into Calais and France in the first place. I feel sorry for the lorry drivers putting up with all this aggro getting stuck there for hours on end. These immigrants should be rounded up sent to where they come from, or put on a disused ferry in the middle of the Atlantic.
We don't want them, France does not want them and apparently nobody wants them, and I suggest those who feel sorry for them are 100% responsible for them.
Thousands of yards of razor wire and water cannon and the Army should be deployed doing their job protecting out country from invasion.
Time, we as a nation, stopped faffing about and done something, stop acting the fairy godmother and tell these people we do not want them here.
France is in the EU and Schengen. They have even less control over their borders than we do
The Schengen Agreement doesn't apply to North African countries only EU countries plus Norway Iceland and Switzerland
Not if they are only allowing them in so they can come into our country illegally
We should never apologise for treating people decently - if the French have a problem with that - tough, they should get their own house in order and repatriate these people back to their country of origin. That goes for most of the Southern European countries as well since they seem to be happy for them to migrant to the wealthier Northern countries.
In life we should always treat others decently. That doesn't mean we should let ourselves be used as a doormat by others willing to abuse our decency.
The UK's decency and tolerance has been abused for so long. We're killing ourselves with kindness
Dave, is that you? :kitty:
If the geography was reversed would the situation be any different? If migrants were desperate to get from the UK to France would we be doing everything we could to stop them?
problem is, countries in Schengen have no border controls with each other. Illegals can travel as freely as EU citizens.
Here's a frightening thought: imagine if the UK was not an island, and was in Schengen!
exactly. We'd be more than happy to get rid. Blaming the French for this crisis is hypocrisy.
No they don't have border controls between other Schengen countries but they do have them with non Schengen countries, they shouldn't be getting in in the first place
surely it should be a wake-up call when even the Socialist Republic of France is complaining that the UK is too generous/compassionate/tolerant!
Who is suggesting we should - under EU law illegal immigrants are the responsibility of the country they land in first - by a quirk of geography that is not the UK, unless they get here by airplane.
It is a travesty to say we are to blame because we treat people decently.
of course, but most of them appear to be getting in through Italy and other routes. So it's a failure of the EU as a whole, not France.
But since the EU is a supranational entity, no single person or nation will take the blame. And nothing will change.
Maybe we should start mining the area around the Chunnel entrance. Although some would probably claim that would violate EU human rights legislation
A line has to be drawn. If you saw a dozen homeless people in your local high street, would you invite them all to come and live in your house because it's the decent thing to do?
It would also be interesting to know how many refugees countries are taking so we can find out who is slacking in acceptance of refugees