Shut the channell tunnel?

Question

whould i be right in saying that the number of illeagal immigrants has risen and the state of our country has fallen sice the channel tunne opened, lets us get rid of ALL illegal immigrants and shut the channel tunnel also lets take a leaf out of Austrailias book and become as strict as they are with regards to access in to the UK

Answer 1

You guys have the same problem across the Pond? Well, considering the money spent on it, you can't close it. The UK joining the EU in it's freedom of travel plans is some thing you could change. It too easy to sneak into France or Spain. Once in, the barriers are too few.

Answer 2

I don't think it has anything to do with the Channel Tunnel or the number of so-called illegal immigrants. Many immigrants enter the UK legally after a long and dehumanising application process. Once in the UK legally, there are very strict regulations related to their stay here; these may include no right to work, no access to housing and absolutely no access to state benefits for very long periods of time. I do not see that "the state of the country has fallen" and you do not provide any evidence to support your assertion. It may be of interest to you that the UK is the 4th richest economy in the world, an economy greatly helped by immigrants living legally in the UK. Of course there are illegal immigrants but do not believe all you read or hear in an increasingly right wing media, illegal immigrants are a very small minority indeed. We are all responsible for the state of the UK - what is your positive contribution to it?

Answer 3

But it's not the tunnel that only has this problem but all the channel ports. In fact the controls at the tunnel are much tighter than elsewhere. I was at Calais ferry port on Friday evening and, as usual, there were maybe a hundred shifty looking characters trying to get into the back of the trucks backed-up along the motorway. And the French border control? well there were 2 of them (also as usual) not doing much - after all, if an illeagal immigrant gets in a truck, he's off French soil

Answer 4

We have to take all the immigrants because the European Community says we do.
Don't be mislead by thinking that we are run from Westminster - over 80% of the UKs laws are now made in Brussels by foreigners.
We have to do as we are told.
Prime Ministers have sold this country down the river to unelected foreigners since Edward Heath's time.
British people do not now 'own' Britain, and there is nothing you can do about it.

Answer 5

at the moment if we sent them all back, we would be branded as racist, it depends how things are worded, the best way to send them back is by wording things in a truthfull manor, and that would be on compassionat grounds, the idea would be to have compassion on say the land of poland. or any of the outhers. the compassion is when one recognises that that land is having a brain drain, and is being weekened dy the loss of so many thousands of their own tallent, if somebody attacked their country, who would defend it if they are over here, as regards the british they are a strain on us, the british are demoralised because they have lost every thing including the right to make their own laws, especialy what used to be the shop floor, they sabotaged them. send them back and strengthen their lands bring them here and weeken their lands and weeken ours also
Do you remember the anxient israelites how they were scattered from their own land and eventualy lost it completly. we britains are now being scattered abroad like the israelites, eventualy loosing britain for good, if we do loose it for good, what would happen if we tried to reclaim we would find our land full of squatters, just like the israelites, thats why we should leave the e.u.If that is not a guarentee at the next election then it will mean 5 more years of the same old treatury, send the military in and force them stop this madness.

Answer 6

Better still get UK out of the EEC and so its nationals will not be able to come freely in.

More and more countries are joining EEC and thus gives its citizens a right to enter the Tiny Island of UK.

There are about 300,000 Romanians poised to enter UK once they join EEC in a couple of months, that is not counting all the people from Turkey which is also about to join.

Answer 7

I don't know exactly how it works, but it seems as though the French are doing nothing about all the illegals camped out over there waiting for the right time to jump on a truck or train. They are quite happy to leave them be, knowing that eventually they will be England's problem and they'll save themselves the cost of proccessing them by letting them through.

Answer 8

Yes it would be good. Not only has it made a financial loss since day 1 its an open invitation to illegals. The French do not care as long as they get to the UK less problem for them.

Answer 9

a step too late, it is our ties within the european union that has slackened our borders. having said that, both from belguim and ireland are easily accessiable routes for those attempting to get in, every bit as much as the channel tunnel. our ties with the EU are holding back our ability to keep our country safe. you need to look at the promises we made with the EU to accept people from the EU as well as foreigners from outside the EU. Blame edward heath an old tory for taking us into europe, a step too far became the ethos of our present insanity with the EU and brussells. and look at belguim wanting their independance from the south, something to do with them not accepting people coming over their border perhaps.

Answer 10

The Channel Tunnel is a wonderful link with continental Europe, and I don't think it should be shut. We waited long enough to get it in the first place. The scroungers to whom you refer don't need a tunnel to get here. They will simply continue to hide in lorries which take the ferry across. Otherwise they will get on the ferries and hide on board. Where there's a will there's a way.