The sensible solution would be for every point of entry and exit to scan their passport and take some biometrics (finger prints, photo and retinal scan) and put an end to this nonsense.
This need only apply to passport holders from a particular list of countries.
Under EU and international law, you can only claim asylum in the first "free" country that you reach having fled your own.
Hence if you are in France, you can't under any definition be a legal asylum seeker in the UK unless you are native of France and seeking to escape from there!
Hmm. Then it could be done when they enter a country that has support for this procedure. That would include Italy and Greece. Then if they are refused asylum, or behave illegally (includes trying to cross a border illegally, as in getting on lorries etc in Calais) they can be sent back to wherever they were before before entering. Which would most likely be Libya.
So if they destroy their papers before getting on a boat to cross the Med, it doesn't make any difference.
or a 12 bore
2nd option:
An EU funded "Refugee Island" somewhere in the middle of the sea.
It might still be considered a better bet for some real refugees, but once word got around it should deter some of the piss taking economic migrants.
Indeed. Didn't someone suggest buying one of the Greek islands for this purpose? The proceeds of the sale would help Greece with its economic crisis - killing two birds with one stone!
Well, there you go. I was really referring to farm animals when I wrote "electric fences only work for animals . . .". The fact that non-human primates can circumvent them serves to illustrate the point.
So you believe "footwear" prevents a person from earthing out? Interesting....
Indeed. And rather begs the question as to how they got to France. Chances are that they first landed in Greece or Italy - so that's where they should be claiming asylum.
Trouble is that once inside the Schengen area, they can go where they like with no checks. The first thing for the EU to do should be to suspend the Schengen agreement and bring back border control!
Still, I expect it will work on the chavs (being a step down from Orangutangs!)
The date and time were right, but in US format just to confuse you ;-)
(was required to workaround a bug in something I was using)
I bet there are a large number of humans without the skill or wit of a primate though ;-)
Perhaps just perhaps a concerted effort by other counties to sort out the problems in their own so they might not find the UK that attractive.
Never happen tho;(...
Yeah, but the kind of people he's trying to keep out aren't as intelligent as these apes so it should work fine.
We all know that's not going to happen. There are forces at work over which we have no control (and precious little awareness) that are working flat out to flood europe with non-europeans.
Oh!
Was having this conversation with a friend just the other day. We reckon St Kilda would do nicely.
I am grateful we are an island and I say take full advantage of that fact.
, they'd ruin the place - how about Rockall?
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