And what about when the next lot want to do the same? I read on here that there are something like 65 million displaced people in the world right now. How do you differentiate between the ones at Calais now and all the others how would come, given half a chance? What about all those landing daily the Greek Islands right now? What if they they hear the good news and all pitch up at Calais, or hop on a fifty quid Easyjet flight from Kos to Stansted and voila? Let's face it, I doubt they want to hang around in Greece for too long as things stand - not much opportunity to be had there right now, is there?
There are millions of people here now already complaining that they are on a low income with jobs that offer no security topped up by tax credits. They'd pay their 57p out of money that is already given back to them in the form of in-work benefits, which is real terms means someone else is paying 57p twice. A few hundred thousand more migrants and that's a pretty tricky balancing act you've got going on there. Presumably if there were better paid, more secure jobs out there people in the UK would already be doing them, right? So what jobs do we give all the migrants wanting a chance to prove themselves and work for a better life?
All you people queueing up to show your 57p, are you prepared/able to put in the money and keep putting it in for the other 65 million, should they arrive at Calais? And if not, on what grounds? Actual eligibility doesn't seem to be an issue for you, so at what point do you personally say 'No. Enough now.' I am really keen to know. Because there are many millions of others globally who may not be displaced now but they will be. Or they are living somewhere with few opportunities and dreaming of a more prosperous, safer life somewhere else. How many lots of 57p can you afford?
Do you think allowing all the people in from Calais, no questions asked, (regardless of whether or not they are in need of genuine asylum or are just opportunistic young men who heard that our streets are paved with gold) will do anything at all to dissuade hundreds of thousands more from trying, once word gets back that if you just keep bugging us or literally repeatedly running at the border, we give in because we are compassionate? Not to mention the security risk of giving in to such tactics.
I think a good number of the people at Calais are (for example) north African men who are not fleeing war, just demoralised from living somewhere where life is tough and political regimes are corrupt and sometimes brutal. And indeed west African men who went to Libya, Tunisia and Egypt as economic migrants and when that went tits up they were no longer welcome so rather than go back home (where there are currently no major wars as far as I know) they are looking for the next place to find work. No-one can argue that they've been dealt a crap hand in life compared to us, but so have billions of people globally. How is it our responsibility to 'solve' that by letting anyone come here just because they want to? 
And how long would the UK stay such an apparently attractive prospect if we did just that? It would implode socially and economically within 5 years.
Sentimental grandiose gestures of support (by giving er…57p 
) are all very well but I'd rather focus on why so many people want to leave the countries they are from and support them to bring about positive change and stability wherever possible. I'd rather we took away foreign aid from China and India (they REALLY don't need it, if they don't prioritise and direct their own wealth appropriately and keep their own house in order that has to be their problem, not ours) and gave more to African and Asian countries that do need it and can be trusted and supported to spend it wisely, while tightening up on immigration and eligibility here.
A further influx of largely unskilled workers with language and cultural barriers who all need jobs, housing, schooling and medical care is not something we are in a great position to give and KEEP ON giving ad infinitum. At least not to the high standards that we have come to demand and expect of ourselves. It is totally unsustainable. Christ, most people on here complain endlessly about austerity and the standard/availability of social housing, education, cuts to health care now so how much more thinly do you seriously think we can keep spreading the same amount of money?
For example we currently take responsibility for agreeing to house anyone who has children with them rather then see them sleep on the street. We currently agree to educate free any child who is here for whatever reason, regardless of their parents' status. We currently agree to fund children from poor backgrounds through university. We currently agree to take care of everyone's health and medical care regardless of their income or lack of, and regardless of their immigration status. If they are here, they get the healthcare. Free. We make a pathetic show of looking like we try to recover money from those not eligible to use our NHS, but it's just for show. Unless it's an easy target with a strong paper trail and a healthy bank balance behind them. Which it usually isn't.
We agree that families should not live in (by our own stringent definition) overcrowded or inadequate housing and we do what we can to move them to bigger/better accommodation wherever possible. If they have 8 children we give them a house (or at least we attempt to give them a house) that adequately sleeps eight children - as is their right according to our own rules. It's hard now - how much harder are we prepared for it to be, without compromising our (relatively speaking) very high standards, which is, after all, the reason people want to come in the first place?
If we allowed all the would-be migrants of the world a chance to come here for a better, safer life how on earth do you propose we keep the economic see-saw balanced and maintain the standards we've set ourselves as a highly developed first world nation? Unless we want the UK to become covered in shanty towns, or get rid of the NHS? I am really keen to know if anyone has any workable answers to this, that actually stack up.
All this 'What borders? I see no borders' nonsense is the stuff of a six former's ideological rantings. Someone tell me how it actually works in the real world please.