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Are you happy that all economic migrants who wish to live in the UK, get that wish granted?
As long as they are prepared to be good citizens of this country and play their part.
As long as they are prepared to be good citizens of this country and play their part. I could be considered a migrant as I wasn't born in the UK.
And you would have no objections for an immigration camp being built next to your property to hold several thousand people whilst they wait an indeterminate time to get jobs and housing?
A refugee is a person who ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country…’(Definition quoted from the 1951 Refugee Convention)Legally, an asylum seeker is a person who has applied for asylum in the UK and is waiting for a decision on his or her claim. A refugee on the other hand has already received a positive decision from the authorities on his or her asylum claim. So, strictly speaking the migrants in Calais are neither refugees or asylum seekers from a UK legal perspective – at least as long as they remain in French territory..However some of the will be economic migrants.The term economic migrant is often confused with the term refugee, but economic migrants leave their country due to bad economic conditions, not due to fear of persecution on the basis of race, religion, or ethnicity.
We haven't such camps in the UK have we?
It's not really the EU 's fault.They would still be there EU or not.They want a decent life where if they fall ill and need treatment they get it.IMO them wanting to come here so badly makes me realise how fortunate we are in the uk, and how our society looks after us.It's not perfect, but it's more then they get in the places they have come from.It's a pity some other countries arn't stable and pleasant places to live.We are so lucky.
And living in a Jungle!
That's because of our self serving leaders, over the odd hundred years or so have created these hell holes for their/our profit and gain. The EU is to blame as well as it has been inward looking, using its power to make trade only profitable to its self and to hinder good trade deals with other countries/continents like Africa. Their chickens are coming home to roust!!!
No, other countries like France and Spain also colonised countries, but they don't have our welfare system and the immigrants arn't looking to stay in those countries.
Well, that explains a lot!!!
Meaning?
Your whole attitude. You probably have very little psychological connections to this place and so are quite happy to give it away free of charge. Like politicians throwing tax payers money around because it has no costs to them. People all always generous with other peoples' possessions.
Of course they are still refugees!
This country is built on migrants very few can trace their ancestry back to the original Anglo Saxon occupants, as most are incomers.
You are talking through your bottom! I have every right to live in the UK having a British passport and have lived here for nearly three quarters of my life, 47 years to be exact. I am half English, a quarter Channel Islander and a quarter Irish. I wouldn't wish to live anywhere else and have plenty of psychological attachment to the country, my husband and children are English. This country is built on migrants very few can trace their ancestry back to the original Anglo Saxon occupants, as most are incomers.
So if 5 million came in each year and some parked outside your house or begged in your high street and so on and littered the place up and lived like pigs and smelling like them etc., you'd be quite happy about it?
hmm, of-course France, Spain .. also Italy, Germany have plenty of people looking to immigrate .. in general. 3rd world immigrants tend to prefer to go to the countries that colonised them, mainly due to family members already there, language and other cultural issues. Also they may well feel they have a right too. I don't think they are intending to live on "benefits".
You are unpleasant! I hope you never have to escape from a war torn country and live in the conditions those poor people have to endure.
Not sure about that suggestion. We have immigrants here from almost every country on Earth, and we certainly didn't colonise them all. If you are a migrant you will choose a country you perceive to be able to offer you the most advantageous options. I don't think the high number of Syrian or Afghanistan would-be migrants are a throw-back to our colonial past. As I said before, France is a desirable new country for either asylum-seekers or economic migrants, and France has a colonial past, but it doesn't seem to be an over-riding fact with the migrants in Calais, for example.
