lincstash - As with the other thread on which you've been posting various diatribes about the ghastliness of the EU, you're peddling a myth here that immigration from the newer EU member states was somehow imposed by the EU on the UK.
In fact, it was up to each of the 15 old EU member states to decide when to lift immigration restrictions on nationals of the new member states. The UK was very unusual in that the British Govt chose to lift the controls from those countries' accession to the EU, rather than waiting a few years to do so, as the majority of other members decided to. Oh, and absolutely nothing to do with the Lisbon treaty. A clear example of how national governments still retain autonomy about most things which matter most to their populations, eg tax policy, health policy, education policy, foreign and defence policy (NOT true to say that the EU decides on the last 2, by the way - Member States remain in the driving seat).
Oh, and I suppose that immigrants are all bad unless they're the 5.7 million British people living in other countries?
And human rights are a bad thing, too, in your view. The European Convention on Human Rights is nothing to do with the European Union. And it's nonsense to say that foreigners have more rights than British people. THe point of non-discrimination in the EU is that British people should enjoy the same rights (and have the same responsibilities, by the way) as other European in other EU countries, and other EU nationals enjoy the same rights when they're here.
Yes, it's very true that Bulgarian and Romania were supposed to have done more against organised crime and corruption before they joined the EU. But it was each individual govt of the old EU member states that agreed to them joining when they did, NOT some mythical monolithic entity called the EU that foist them on us. Oh, and EU enlargement is something on which there has been party political consensus in the UK for years and years, so you can't just blame the Labour govt as any other colour of British govt would have taken the same decision.
And you seem to have forgotten to respond to Vesela's point about this operation being a great example of what can be done through cross-European police cooperation, which you, presumably, oppose.
Yes, organised crime and child-trafficking are hideous, but your whole tone is so self-righteous as though there's no one like this in the UK at all. For example, who do you think the clients of any of these children who might have ended up in prostitution are? Who buys pirate DVDs that are also part of the financing cycle of organised crime? Brits need to take some responsibility for what goes on here instead of just pointing the finger at people who have, for centuries, been oppressed and denied rights in their own countries.