What do you think should happen with all the migrants at Calais.

It's not right that lorry drivers get penalised as they can't do much to stop them when the migrants are carrying knives etc.
If I was a lorry driver I wouldn't slow down on the motorway for them I'd mow them down.
The drivers should be watching the traffic not the migrants.

It's the only way to stop them apart from the French sending them back where they come from.
Who knows how many of them may be terrorists etc.

We don't want them and can't cope. The population of the UK has grown by around 20% since the 70s

BRITIAN IS FULL!!

BRITIAN IS FULL!!

What do you think should happen with all the migrants at Calais.

It's not right that lorry drivers get penalised as they can't do much to stop them when the migrants are carrying knives etc.
If I was a lorry driver I wouldn't slow down on the motorway for them I'd mow them down.
The drivers should be watching the traffic not the migrants.

It's the only way to stop them apart from the French sending them back where they come from.
Who knows how many of them may be terrorists etc.

We don't want them and can't cope. The population of the UK has grown by around 20% since the 70s

BRITIAN IS FULL!!

Part of the reason for the rise in the rhetoric, as displayed rather ineloquently by the originator of this thread, is the very poor way in which immigration was handled in the early 2000s by Tony Blair's Labour government which came about because of flawed foreign policy and the pursuit of glory in the 2003 Iraq War. A mass influx of (mainly Polish) immigrants into relatively poor communities in the east of England has had a huge impact on them, particularly after the world-wide recession which led to falling living standards and increasingly unaffordable housing. Due these issues, and unfortunately the lack of integration (at first) this has led to huge resentment amongst the indigenous population, including that of the relatively new communities that came over in the 50s and 60s post-war despite once being immigrants themselves!

The fact remains that because of lowering birth-rates our ageing population is in DIRE need of an influx of young & skilled workers from both within and outside Europe. This is in order to fill vacancies and support the ageing population which otherwise will become increasingly difficult to sustain. It is awful to see people driven to this level of desperation (as also displayed in the ongoing Mediterranean crossings) and a solution looks to be sadly decades away - the problem at Calais has been building for a long time but politicians have consistently failed to do anything beyond short-term policies that contain the problem.

With globalisation - until equality is achieved across the world the scenes at Calais are doomed to be repeated.

The hypocrisy of this government has now plumbed new depths. Earlier this year, the government's attitude towards migrants trying to cross from Africa to Italy could be summarised as "let them drown". They refused to play any significant part in any EU-wide solution. Their attitude towards migrants trying to cross from France to the UK is rather different. Now, suddenly, the EU should be helping Britain and France.

Of course, we cannot expect any sort of consistency or intelligence from a Prime Minister who de-humanises some of the most desperate people on Earth by accusing them of "swarming" to Britain. The man is beneath contempt.

It was't just our government though, it was the whole of the EU and the rest of the world. Nobody else wanted to know.

I'm so torn on this subject, but this stuff is what breeds fascism and support for UKIP. I don't mind asylum seekers if they're in danger, but they can claim asylum in so many countries, but they choose Britain. You're meant to claim asylum in the first safe country you visit, not wait and try to cross the border between the UK and France. But now because of this, in all likelihood the rates asylum seekers receive in the future will be lowered due to public pressure, and the increase that is likely, which is wrong on a human level.

What do you think should happen with all the migrants at Calais.

It's not right that lorry drivers get penalised as they can't do much to stop them when the migrants are carrying knives etc.
If I was a lorry driver I wouldn't slow down on the motorway for them I'd mow them down.
The drivers should be watching the traffic not the migrants.

It's the only way to stop them apart from the French sending them back where they come from.
Who knows how many of them may be terrorists etc.

We don't want them and can't cope. The population of the UK has grown by around 20% since the 70s

BRITIAN IS FULL!!

Cameron's comments yesterday made me thoroughly ashamed to be British, perhaps more than ever before. The fact that he seems to be about to change his mind just makes him look pathetic. Ed Miliband (remember him?) has even more reason to despair at the fact that he was perceived as being weak.

Fully agreed, actually when he axed support for Mediterranean migrant rescue in October 2014 and essentially said 'let them drown' I lost any (little) remaining respect I had for him.

You're overlooking the fact that a lot of UK people probably agreed with him then. I know several that have no sympathy whatsoever for the immigrants dying, even the two little boys, as if they'd stayed where they were, as bad as it may be for some, at least they'd still be alive.