To think that UK bound lorry drivers should boycott Calais?

[Libitina]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33240475

The local police would soon do something to protect them then. If it was my husband (he's not a lorry driver) I would be so worried about his personal saftey. How long before someone is hurt or killed?

And I wasn't disputing what you were saying Aermingers I was just comparing your experience with my parents experience 2 days ago. Merely commenting that my parents saw the same yet things have calmed down a lot more over the extra 2 days. Therefore after Tuesday's madness things are not as bad as the media played them out to be (even if it was as bad as the media portrayed in the first place).

Cool Harleen. It was weird, I went through East Germany to West Berlin then West Berlin to East Berlin when I was a kid. It was similar, very alike. It was weird. But having seen it today I honestly believe the French are doing the best they can.

There's not just one camp, but several - most don't (or haven't in the past) had any state funding buy various charities are active there. There are also many, many informal settlements of just a tent or three especially on relatively inaccessible (to the public) pieces of land like the side of dual carriageways in the area, around Dunkerque as well as Calais. (I imagine that some migrants prefer to go it alone because of the risk of violence in the camps.)

But that's been the case for a long time now - a few years at least?

bellegold do you honestly suggest that people fleei g persecution from their own governments should provide some official paperwork from the state their fleeing from confirming their official status as persecuted person? Can you really not see the big fat flaw in your thinking?

Widow which country did you originally emigrate from and how many economic migrants/asylum seekers has your country taken on?

I've emigrated from Germany. You can find figures on refugee distribution across Europe here: data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.REFG/countries

What's the relevance of your question?

I asked the question widow because you have a country to return to if you are no longer happy with how things turn out in the UK if every economic migrant was given free access to the UK.
I suspect Germany is in a similar situation or worse. I doubt that many of your fellow Germans are 100 per cent delighted with accepting mass immigration with no controls from the med.

Technically yes, of course, I have the right to return to Germany. If I wanted to and was happy to leave my children behind. I really would not want to leave the place I've called home for a decade and I sure as hell would never leave my kids.