What Can Realistically Be Done About The Calais Migrant Camp?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37217192
Cooperation is better than bickering but how can us and the French resolve this issue?

[youngmafbog]

The EU is responsible and we are soon to be out of it.

If the chunnel is a big problem then close it.

For shipping put border security on the boats. Any illegals not allowed to disembark and returned to the last safe country they came from. France.

The only way to deal with this is show we (and France) are not a soft touch, otherwise the numbers currently there will become minuscule compared to the problem that will arise.

We could of course help ourselves here by not giving every Tom Dick and Abdul free housing, clothing, mobiles, cars and everything else before dealing with our own peoples problems. Asylum seekers should be kept in camps until their papers have been properly processed and they have a job that will pay for them with no benefits. Where countries then are deemed safe they should be shipped back.

[anotheoldgit]

All illegals should be sent back immediately, no putting them into holding centres etc until their request at asylum is processed, in fact our country should not be bothered with asylum seekers since there are plenty of safe countries they can settle in en route to the UK.

The Normans constructed moats around their castles so as to keep invaders out, we are an Island fortress and the Channel, North Sea, Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean are our moat which should keep all invaders out, just as they did during WW2.

[ichkeria]

All well and good AOG, but what if those countries don't want them?
As I've said before, if the UK was the 'first safe country' we would be pretty annoyed if we were inundated with refugees.
We might even say 'well, they don't even want to be here so send them to the country they want to go to' ;-)

[anotheoldgit]

ichkeria

/// All well and good AOG, but what if those countries don't want them? ///

Then it is not our problem, it is the problem of that country, it is the right of these people to claim asylum in the first safe country and if that country turns down their applications for asylum then they are perfectly within their right to send them back from whence they came.

/// As I've said before, if the UK was the 'first safe country' we would be pretty annoyed if we were inundated with refugees. ///

Well fortunately we are not, at least not until such time as the whole of Europe becomes a war zone.

[ichkeria]

It IS our problem, partly, tho. It's everyone's problem, and pretending or claiming that it is not is not going to make it go away.
The jungle in Calais primarily affects the locals ( and the inmates) but it also affects us

[-Talbot-]

Yes Ich, I have had bits of trouble from them on my travels.

[anotheoldgit]

ichkeria

/// The jungle in Calais primarily affects the locals ( and the inmates) but it also affects
us ///

Yes it does affect us i.e. it affect the carriers who transport goods from the continent, it effects those who travel from Calais vie the ferries or the tunnel, it effects the authorities of the South coast towns who have to process those illegals who manage to cross over the channel.

But the problem of all those people congregating in the 'Jungle' is the problem the French must sort out and not us.