The Calais problem (merged)

[Dubai Blue]

Really don't get the fuss over the use of the word "swarm". Saw some of the people complaining about it on Sky News last night and thought I was watching an episode of Brass Eye. Surreal.

 

[Mike N]

So, what is our fine Government going to do about it? Cameron's big idea the other day was more fences. Today, hot from the Cobra meeting, his idea is more fences and more dogs!

Good God.

 

[warspite]

Fences are a waste of time they just cut through them, a Berlin style wall needs building all the way around the terminal and beyond
If they are genuine asylum seekers they would claim asylum in the first safe Country they land in, listening to some of those interviewed they make it clear they all want to get to the UK for housing, jobs and benefits, well i'm sorry but we have enough problems of our own with these Tory fuckers in charge without more burdens on our overstretched services

 

[Blue Maverick]

We could let them onto a ferry say we are going to UK then just head to the Mediterranean

 

[blueish swede]

or let them on a ferry, take them to the UK and process their aplications for asylum the way a decent country would.

 

[Rascal]

We bomb foreign lands and wonder why people want to leave them. We help create the likes of ISIS and the Taliban and wonder why people want to leave there. As a former Imperial power on whose empire never set and on which we built the wealth of the nation we wonder why those people look to the "colonial" master when times are hard.

The claim asylum at the point of entry to the EU is silly,because If granted they can come to the UK on an EU passport without risking there lives.

Germany has taken 176,000 asylum seekers, the UK just 24,000. Whether we like it or not people on this planet see the UK as a bastion of fairness and justice ( they should read here and that notion would soon be banished from there heads) Im quite proud of how the UK is viewed abroad but our current Government is doing its best to make us look a total bunch of selfish inward looking twats.

 

[MCFCTrick]

or let them on a ferry, take them to the UK and process their aplications for asylum the way a decent country would.

Now compare the size of the countries to see the problem with these stats. The UK is too small to take more ...

 

[W12]

or let them on a ferry, take them to the UK and process their aplications for asylum the way a decent country would.

Or maybe its that most wont claim asylum but will just disapear into the underworld and the black economy. No pun intended.

 

[yorknomore]

We could let them onto a ferry say we are going to UK then just head to the Mediterranean

Is the correct answer :)

 

[blueish swede]

Now compare the size of the countries to see the problem with these stats. The UK is too small to take more ...

5% of the land area of the United Kingdom is built upon. 2% is housing, the rest industry, business, transportation etc.
You could put 10 cities the size of Manchester in the UK without anybody noticing.