Another One Here For Good

[bazwillrun]

http://news.sky.com/story/1616423/channel-tunnel-walker-given-asylum-in-uk

Just great...instead of carting him straight back to France we let him stay and charge him for with "causing an obstruction to an engine or carriage using the railway, under the little-known Malicious Damage Act of 1861."

hilarious bet hes krapping himself at that lot...not...he'll be laughing at us more like, just like the rest of them.

forget the charges, just ship him back...this does nothing but encourage them to come here by any means..

An utter joke and a disgrace at the same time

[Baldric]

Don't think he'll worry that much even if they hit him with a big fine, we'll be the mugs paying it via the benefits system.

[Gladeian]

I could not agree more.
Instead of the ridiculous idea of prosecuting him here which probably helped him to stay here on remand he should have been shipped straight back to France.
What a joke we have become.

[New Judge]

Of course he has no right to claim asylum as he lost that right when he did not report to the authorities in the first safe country he arrived in. That was certainly not the UK and almost certainly not France.

There is no doubt where he came from and under the rules he should have been shipped back there forthwith. But there is less chance of that than there is of him paying any fines and costs he may be subject to.

[mushroom25]

//he should have been shipped straight back to France. //

france won't accept him. thus no carrier will convey him because they'll have to bring him straight back, at their own expense. his would be the norm if the french renege on the "Le Touquet" accord, which they would almost certainly do if we voted to leave the EU.

[New Judge]

If the UN rules were properly applied they'd have no option, mushroom.

I think I've discussed the "Le Touquet" agreement before but I do not believe that agreement would be torn up in the event of a "Brexit". France (and indeed the rest of Europe) depends more on cross-channel trade than the UK does. Furthermore the port of Calais has just announced a plan to spend 700 million euros expanding their operations there:

http://www.lloydsloadinglist.com/freight-directory/news/Calais-posts-annual-freight-record/61597.htm#.VoqiwFKWe-d

Trade between the UK and the Continent will not suddenly cease if the UK leaves the EU. In fact the chances are it will grow faster than if we remained. If the UK border was shifted back from Calais/Dunkirk/Bolougne/Coquelles to Dover/Folkestone the UK authorities would simply ensure that all illegals found trying to disembark from ships and trains were returned forthwith (as per the rules). It would be far more difficult for France to deal with this than it would for the UK and would hinder the efficiency on both sides of the channel. However there are other European gateways to and from the UK apart from the French ports and it would be commercial suicide for Calais if a sizeable chunk of their UK traffic was moved elsewhere.

In short the threat of abandonment of the "Le Touquet" agreement is a scaremongering tactic which actually holds little water.