Channel Tunnel Calais Crisis

[mushroom25]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33699141

incursion of 2000 monday.
incursion of 1000 and one death last night.
tonight?
tomorrow night?
next week?

on the basis that water can't be shovelled with a pitchfork, what's the betting that Cameron's "government will do everything it can to combat the crisis" pledge will mean dismantling the border? it will after all make all the current issues go away overnight.

[Zacs-Master]

As,I've,said on the TWR thread, the Govt have pledged £7m for a security fence.

[Zacs-Master]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1435209.html

[Quizmonster]

The French have military and police forces and - of all things - a tunnel entrance must surely be the easiest thing in the world to 'defend'. A ferry terminal, too, occupies a relatively small area, so fences and passport checks should be quite effective in barring entry to anyone who does not qualify for further travel through it.
Why is it that we see so many films of slow-moving lorries approaching Calais being surrounded by migrants and broken into with nary a policeman in sight?
The fact that so many of these desperate people WANT to come to the UK does not alter the fact that they are actually IN France and, thus, the responsibility of the French authorities.

[mikey4444]

The French need to get a grip here. If it was an airport that was being besieged 24 hours a day, the riot police would have been out in force. After all, the French Police have not normally been know as shy and retiring have they !

I have listened to the Today Program this morning, and it was reported that people are walking down the railway tracks, trying to get into the Tunnel. If they are caught by the Police, they are then put into a bus, driven a few km back from the coast and let out again. So these people then walk back down the track and have another go. This is ludicrous !

[naomi24]

This situation cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely. Both the French and the British need to make a firm decision. These people clearly don’t want to stay in France and we don’t want them to come here so the only option is to transport them back to where they came from.

[Old_Geezer]

Funding a few more wire fences are just going to provide more targets for the wire cutters. These groups are acting illegally and need to be dispersed. If the French just leave them it'll just get worse and worse and the end result will be troops having to be brought in to clear the result; because no one given authority was strong enough to use it to clear the issue when it should have been nipped in the bud.

Shame on the French authorities.

(Maybe we should just block our end up at Dover and go back to sailing more ferries.)

[ChillDoubt]

Let's be honest here, the French aren't even vaguely interested in stemming the flow. The more that make it through, the less of a problem they have.
This has to be cut off at source and it's time to get draconian.

[ChillDoubt]

Forgot to add, anyone who claims to be bewildered and aghast at the rise of the right and far right in Europe really needs to wake up and smell what they're shovelling.

[gangesboy]

Apparently there is a plan being discussed to remove them
http://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-daily-telegraph/20150729/281517929824386/TextView

[ToraToraTora]

This whole thing mystifies me, can someone answer these questions please:
1) why do they no apply for asylum in France
2) Why do we even talk to any that make it here, rather than just send them back
3) Why do France not stop them getting into France at all?
4) Why do we not enforce the only useful EU law, that they must apply in the first safe country?

They need to install automatic steel shutters on the tunnel entrance that open and close in between trains.

[ToraToraTora]

gawd help us the brains trust has awoken!

[fiction-factory]

Thatcher would have dealt with it wouldn't she, Bouncer.

[sandyRoe]

If these people destroyed their papers where would they be removed to? There's talk of West Africa but many come from troubled Somalia and Eritrea.

[ToraToraTora]

Sandy, well back to France for a start.

[whiskeryron]

Isn't it time to call a spade a shovel. Let's stop all the pretence, if the immigrants are black then they have come from the African continent, never mind where, transport them back to Africa to find their own way home, if they managed to do it one way they should have no trouble getting back. Anyone causing disruption at the ferry terminals should be arrested & deported, what is so difficult about that ?

[ToraToraTora]

…..and F\F\S electrify those effing fences!

[anotheoldgit]

Get out of the EU post haste, before the French cotton on and grant them all French citizenship, we would then have no alternative but to allow them in as EU citizens.

The thought of that is frightening.

[whiskeryron]

Hear,Hear AOG I'm with you there