It's a disgrace that Britain is not welcoming the Calais refugees

- Family and friends in Britain.

- Don't speak French but speak English.

- Perhaps they have had a bad experience with the French authorities and feel scared. Also France is demonstrating a lot of right-wing policies at the moment and maybe they think they will have a more tolerant and multicultural future in Britain.

Because they are refugees.

- Family and friends in Britain.
- Don't speak French but speak English.
- Perhaps they have had a bad experience with the French authorities and feel scared. Also France is demonstrating a lot of right-wing policies at the moment and maybe they think they will have a more tolerant and multicultural future in Britain.

Why? How many safe countries did they pass to get to Calais? Hell they're in FRANCE right now and they're still not satisfied. Sorry, but they don't have my sympathy. If they were real asylum seekers they wouldn't have travelled across Europe to get to where they are. This is economic migration, and I'm glad Britain isn't falling for it.

strong debating skills.

I ask again:
How do you know they are refugees and not criminals on the run wishing to have a new identity in Europe?

1. Then they can go and visit them, either way this isn't a valid cause for migration if they're adults.
2. Then they can learn French, they've been there long enough.
3. And Britain doesn't have a prolific right-wing scene? Have you ever heard of UKIP?

That fact of the matter is, none of these are valid cases for asylum. A genuine refugee accepts accommodation where they can get it that's safe. It doesn't matter how much more they like country x than country y, if country y is safe and you arrive there first then that's where you stay. They have travelled through a lot of countries to get to France, we have no responsibility to accept them. They're safe, and that's all that counts.

Thats chicken and egg though. About 40% of them will be refugees, so oys a question of being able to sort them from the economic migrants. Thats what you have an asylum system for.

Ummm, if they're trekking the thousands of miles beyond the necessary for safety you have to be brain dead to be able to say they aren't economic migrants while keeping a straight face.

Because britain is known for its tolerance right? This is the same britain that has bombed these afghans right out of their homes. Also, you are correct in an above comment about them having family in the UK, a lot of them do including minors. These same people chatting s**t about them coming here for benefits we all know are simply racist idiots, as if people would travel on foot through continents and countries where the situation for refugees is much, much worse and then live in a camp which we have documented proof of it being basically less than a shanty town simply to come in and claim benefits. God forbid if they actually get in and start working - then theyre stealing all the jobs! A quick look here and there even if only on TSR can you show you the extent of hatred and racism that runs deep in a certain demographic who have caused the biggest problems on the planet and yet deflect blame here there and everywhere. They also, coincidentally are the ones super quick to respond to each and every thread on any type of ethnic minority business here in TSR, in other words, racist failures unemployed living their life on state paid internet.

Thats chicken and egg though. About 40% of them will be refugees, so oys a question of being able to sort them from the economic migrants. Thats what you have an asylum system for.

Thats chicken and egg though. About 40% of them will be refugees, so oys a question of being able to sort them from the economic migrants. Thats what you have an asylum system for.

Not really true. An individual can seek asylum where they wish, its just we have the channel which acts as a natural barrier against anyone making a claim.

No, it isn't just an issue for mainland Europe. That's why we're fighting ISIS to cut the head off the snake, and taking refugees from camps in the Middle East so they don't have to make the dangerous journey across the Med. But my original point still stands: what is wrong with the previous 10 countries that they've walked through to get here? They want to come here because they can get generous benefits if they're unskilled, or higher paying jobs than in Eastern Europe if they are skilled. Before you (if not you then someone else) say "what's wrong with them wanting a better life?", absolutely nothing. But with that attitude we'd have to invite a billion Africans, hundreds of millions of South Americans and many others. It's just not physically viable, a nation state's primary responsibility is to act in the interests of its own citizens. We have to be pragmatic about this crisis, not ideological.

I couldn't agree more than it is a disgrace. The problem with the country is we are letting a few hundred thousand racists in the North control us, like when they dragged us out of Europe. Britain has a long history of accepting people from war torn countries and the fact that we are turning are backs on these refugees will be judged very badly by future generations. Britain does not need less immigration, we need MORE immigration. Quite frankly people need to drop this fear of Muslims and unite around a fear of; this nasty, ideologically right wing government, the British right and UKIP voters (I know that's the same as the British right but they just make me so angry)

Unfortunately, they don't want to register for asylum.

I couldn't agree more than it is a disgrace. The problem with the country is we are letting a few hundred thousand racists in the North control us, like when they dragged us out of Europe. Britain has a long history of accepting people from war torn countries and the fact that we are turning are backs on these refugees will be judged very badly by future generations. Britain does not need less immigration, we need MORE immigration. Quite frankly people need to drop this fear of Muslims and unite around a fear of; this nasty, ideologically right wing government, the British right and UKIP voters (I know that's the same as the British right but they just make me so angry)

They do its just in the UK, which theres nothing in law to prevent them from doing so. Hence the impasse.