Britain Gives In To France Yet Again To The Tune Of £12M.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/20/uk-government-illegal-migrants-calais-twelve-million

Would they do the same if it was the UK's problem?

[ToraToraTora]

If the mainland EU protected it's borders and applied it's own rules then this whole thing would not be a problem.

[Old_Geezer]

Perhaps France would like to return the favour by pledging £12M to the UK to help deal with the problem caused by they not sorting their immigration problem out on their side of the channel ? We should be helping each either after all.

[boxtops]

I agree with TTT - it's the stupid issues of not policing mainland EU borders which has led to this situation. If France doesn't like it, they need to change things so they can stop people strolling across the Italian border and coming across France to get to Calais in the first place.

[Baldric]

The French, left to their own devices, give up the Fight far too easily, as History proves!

[boxtops]

Just think, balders, if you hadn't moved, you could have been right in the front line.....

[Baldric]

A Sniper on every rooftop Boxy ;-)

[Farriercm]

Only 12 million, ------, It cost 13 million+ for the Scottish referendum.

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe, but we didn't ask another country to fund it.

[youngmafbog]

What has the Scottish referendum got to do with this?

Governments are too keen to give our money away to foreigners.

[brionon]

The French could just look the other way and allow the would be immigrants to flood across to us,you should be thanking them. But,of course, you EU haters will never face the truth !!

[Farriercm]

Scots referendum,OG ? Another Country did help to fund it.
Guess which Country that was OG???

[New Judge]

"But,of course, you EU haters will never face the truth !! "

Well here's a few truths to be going on with, brionon.

The truth is that one of the EU's founding and most important principles is the free movement of goods, capital and labour. A result of this was that "labour" was quickly interpreted as "people" and people were allowed to move across the continent whether they were providing labour or not. This saw the borders between continental mainland EU nations all but disappear.

In 1985 this situation was reinforced when the ridiculous Schengen Agreement was signed (which, thankfully the UK declined to do). This effectively made mainland Europe (the EU nations plus one or two others) a single area as far as immigration and travel was concerned and once in that area people face no borders whatsoever.

Immigrants seeking to settle in Europe arriving from many African nations usually travel via north Africa and land in either Malta or (more usually) southern Italy. The Italians welcome them (they are "proud" to be the landing point of choice for these hapless souls). Unfortunately they are not so proud as to want to keep them and they are quickly ushered across the unmanned border into France. Those wishing to reach Utopian UK travel freely up to Calais and the French suffer the problem there we see today.

The truth is that France is suffering this problem because (a) it belongs to the EU (b) it is a signatory to the Schengen Agreement and (c) it does not insist that Italy meets its obligations to offer asylum to these immigrants as the first safe country in which they land. Suggesting that this is a problem to be tackled by the UK is completely unjustified.

They are the inconvenient "truths" of which EU haters are well aware.