What is to be done about Calais

[spadriver]

Just watching the huge immigrant problem at Calais.Some are alledged to be carrying knives so Truck drivers are reluctant to leave thier cabs.
So what next? Free very high pressure underbody truck wash or some other deterent.

[anothernameitist]

Calais is in the northern part of France, so these "migrants" have to travel through France to get there, but the English get the blame for them been there.

Get the CRS in, do a proper job and trash the site where they are camped, whilstthey are at it trash the migrants too!!

[spadriver]

Yes quite, French are rather like Pakistanis, its never thier fault.;)

[robemcdonald]

spadriver said:

Yes quite, French are rather like Pakistanis, its never thier fault.;)

WTF?

I a travelling to France on the Eurostar with car and family this weekend.

This is really spoiling the holiday at the moment as my wife is very concerned with being able to get back because of more problems.

What it has to do with Pakistanis is anyone's guess though. You don't work for the mail do you?

[johnS2000]

What would happen if everybody stopped using Calais and went to/from other ports??

[anothernameitist]

The migrants would move to that port.

It won't happen though, you would never get everyone moving to a longer crossing.

All this about the migrants is hyped up by the press and some truck drivers.
The main problem is the Eastern European drivers are the ones that are target on a regular basis for a lift. not many British truck drivers get asked for a lift.

Why we as a country should help France is beyond me, if the French want to rewind a few hundred years to when Calais was English fair enough. Calais is French the problem is Frances' not ours.

[heebeegeetee]

anothernameitist said:

The migrants would move to that port.

It won't happen though, you would never get everyone moving to a longer crossing.

All this about the migrants is hyped up by the press and some truck drivers.
The main problem is the Eastern European drivers are the ones that are target on a regular basis for a lift. not many British truck drivers get asked for a lift.

Why we as a country should help France is beyond me, if the French want to rewind a few hundred years to when Calais was English fair enough. Calais is French the problem is Frances' not ours.

The reason they're in Calais is because of us. IIRC France didn't go in for the warmongering and regime changing like we did, and clearly France doesn't give benefits away like we do.

I've head one migrant in Calais say that in England he wouldn't be living in a forest like he does in France, and I suspect he may be right.