I’d like to see a penalty charge attached to that. Say, £10k deducted for every refugee that reaches the UK by crossing the channel. That’s fair, isn’t it? We'd have 'saved' £2,870,000 yesterday alone!
The UK has paid France over £100m - which has gone to improve security at the tunnel and Calais port. Also I think patrols on beaches.A bit less than the £100m a monkey was quoting here the other day then.
But not per year.The UK has paid France over £100m - which has gone to improve security at the tunnel and Calais port.
And will turn the UK into a poop hole instead?Won't make a difference, the French will just take the money and let them come anyway.
If the UK border force located in Calais was less hostile there may be less dangerous crossings happening.
I can't blame the French, the migrants have turned Calais into a poop hole
Since the UK won’t collaborate and agree on taking a fair share, France won’t care….why should it, it already takes 5x more asylum seekers than UK.
Anyway, the numbers of asylum seekers isn’t a crisis the numbers are smaller than they used to be.
This is just another diversion tactic by this right wing populist govt…..it’s desperate to hide its pandemic and Brexit failures
They have the space. France could take in 70 MILLION more people and it still wouldn’t exceed the population density of the U.K.Since the UK won’t collaborate and agree on taking a fair share, France won’t care….why should it, it already takes 5x more asylum seekers than UK.
And will turn the UK into a poop hole instead?
it's a very difficult balance,
Calais is now a shanty town of tents and crime.
there really is no need for the asylum seekers to insist on coming to the UK, when they land they will find very quickly they perhaps had the incorrect view of what was waiting for them at the other end.
frances plan is to make them uncomfortable in the hope they will disperse elsewhere, which i do sympathise with.
asylum seekers especially failed ones, appear to be a problem no one really wants to take responsibility for, and with so many human rights acts and other laws, even if they fail their application you cant get rid of them, so why not just grant them it anyway?
personally i have very conflicting views both right and left leaning, but am trying to take a balanced view
The irony is over here of course we are all riddled with endemic institutionalised racism (the white Brits only of course) whilst every other nation joining us are perfect. One could argue many come from war torn countries used to fighting and civil war one could argue they too are blighted with similar negative traits to which we really don't want here is a civil war from there over here. But hey thats of course stereo typing racist etc..
Such hypocrisy.
So does the UK.They have the space.