Is this a good way to spend your money?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/arti cle-1197875/Britain-gives-French-15m-police-bo rder.html

Ultra well off Britain gives poor hard up France �15million, to police their own border.

[Gromit]

To Governments, �15million is piffling amount, they probably spend more on paperclips.

If the French fail in their duty then the illegal immigrants come here and will cost us more. It is far better to stop more on the French side than have to deal with them if they get here.

It may be unpalatable for some, all legal means of preventing illegal immigrants reaching these shores should be tried.

[jake-the-peg]

This might be a ridiculoously old fashioned idea but I always thought a border by definition was between two countries.

I think we might wan't to be nice to the French.

Judging from the letters to Le Figaro a lot of people want to pack a train full of Afghans and send them straight over to us.

Strangely they think that we may have had something to do with Afghan refugees.

Can't imagine what

[jake-the-peg]

I'm just imagining an alternative universe with a large camp of Algerians in a camp in Dover that we're keeping out of France.

Ohh the threads here would be screaming!

[paraffin]

For that kind of money we could easily finance the 24/7 machine gun towers I advocate peppered around the coastline of the UK and which could be manned, say, by retired SAS, Marines, Paras etc.

The hitherto impotent immigration authorities could be assigned offices at all our major ports, particularly Dover, for example, where on the spot decisions can be made and the unsuccessful apprehended applicants immediately sent back.

Simple, really. Save all this hassle, wouldn't it?

[Gromit]

machine gun towers?

When they come via channel tunnel, under the sea?

Not your best thought out plan para.

[paraffin]

And you reckon I hadn't thought of that, Gromit? I'd have you and jake manning the Chunnel turret!

[Gromit]

You haven't thought it out have you.

That would be like putting King Herod in charge of the creche and Emperor Nero in charge of the matches.

[paraffin]

Yes, but I do have rather a warped sense of humour.

[Kidd72]

I say cattle prod us on the way out , then it would be case of 'if you've not been cattle prodded then you can't come in' ;-/

[rov1200]

Maybe its an admission that we can't stop the flood of these immigrants ourselves. Our borders are so porous we are the world's laughing stock. We could give that �15m to the immigrants so they go home but there are no takers.

Maybe if they offered British residents a resettlement allowance many would jump at the chance to emigrate.

[bentaxle]

I don't know why they are worried about the tunnel for ,I live on the coast and you can walk on and off the docks nobody takes any notice