350 people are feared dead...

[David Johnson]

"I wish Africa would just fuck off, they are such a drain."

Surprising. I've heard Africans think quite highly of you.

[Essex Lad]

Von Boy wrote:

> after the sad events in the Med earlier this week.. is it time
> Europe puts in place a open door policy for African asylum
> seekers etc. to safely arrive on main land Europe?
>
> Suggestions include running ferry type boats from North Africa
> to various ports... process the paperwork and then allow the
> asylum seekers to move safely & freely to the UK or wherever
> they want to live...
>
Doesn't EU law state that they should be given haven in the first country that they arrive in? That would be Spain in most circumstances.

I think the ferry boat idea is open to the most blatant abuse.

[cockneygeezer2009]

Seems intellectualism is dead on some of these posts.

[william]

Given haven in the first country.... Yeah but you see they make a move the the land of milk and honey where they get it easy.

Stop it quite easily the spanish have enough navy ability to track thouse boats pick em up and send them back. 100 % success would be possible.
If there was zero chance of getting in on a boat then they would stop trying. Stop all encouragement ie dont let em stay.

And quit giving the fuckers benefits.

[Robches]

Did you read about the Syrian refugees in Calais "demanding" to be let into Britain? This is a complete perversion of the concept of asylum. They are in a western European democracy already, but that isn't good enough for them, they insist on coming here! Since when did asylum seekers get to decide where they got offered asylum? If they try that stunt out in Australia they find themselves in Papua New Guinea. Who's got the right idea?

[cockneygeezer2009]

It's total bullshit that every immigrant or asylum seeker wants to come to the UK. That's what the bigots, the small minded and little Englanders want you to believe. How arrogant. There are other countries on the planet.

[David Johnson]

Just to back up cockneygeezer's wise words, if you have a look at Table 2 Number of Asylum Seekers in EU and EFTA countries in 2011



you will see that Belgium, Germany, France, Italy and Sweden, all had more asylum seekers than the UK and the likes of Switzerland as a proportion of their population had a lot more.

So not the land of milk and honey.

[andy at handiwork]

Sadly, almost without exception we get the usual total lack of humanity, empathy or decency.

[spider]

"Did you read about the Syrian refugees in Calais "demanding" to be let into Britain?"

Where did you read that?

Wasn't the Daily Mail was it by any chance?

If it was in The Mail it must be true. !idontbelieveit!

[Essex Lad]

andy at handiwork wrote:

> Sadly, almost without exception we get the usual total lack of
> humanity, empathy or decency.


What did you expect?