Holiday Getaway Chaos At Calais

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3174189/Holiday-getaway-chaos-Calais-Migrant-activity-causes-five-hour-delays-thousands-families-head-continent.html

I wonder if even the most devout libertarian, would say after sitting in a 5 hour traffic jam on the way to his or her continental holiday,

"Well these poor desperate people are only coming here for a better life"

[THECORBYLOON]

BOUNCER, if there is a ban on water cannons, it's in Great Britain, not the UK.

[jourdain2]

I've just read a post from my ex-coiffeuse and friend. She posted a set of cartoons going the rounds in France. The ordinary French (I assume she and her wide acquaintance and family count as ordinary) are fed-up to the back teeth with immigrants, the trouble they cause AND the amount of money they get from the French state. The farmers are simmering sullenly and are about to explode (that was the basic theme of the cartoons) as grants to immigrants exceed the average agricultural wage.

Now, someone may be able to take this to pieces, I'm reporting what I've read and been told by French friends. Point is, that it's not just this side of the Channel.

I would support a huge effort to divert all ferries to Dunquerque and another port to push the French government to an effort to save a chunk of their economy. The problem is that the right to strike is so ingrained that it is impossible for the French to even think of curbing it - no matter how much it inconveniences them.

[ubasses]

I am probably being too simplistic here, but sitting in traffic queues for hours/days must be costing the haulage industry a fortune. Surely it would not cost any more, in the end, to boycott Calais and use the Ostend or Dunkirk routes to Dover. Surely it is not beyond technology to have lorries with remote internal locking systems that can be operated from the cab so that the immigrants cannot just open them from the inside and climb in.