Channel Tunnel - Migrants - Think Tank Solution

Pat Riley · Jul 29, 2015

According to the Daily Mail, a government think tank has tabled a proposal to solve the current migrant problems at the French side of the Channel Tunnel.

It involves placing a temporary barrier at the English side of the tunnel. A concrete bung in the tunnel itself. Then, allow as many migrants as wish to, to enter the French side of the tunnel until the tunnel is at maximum capacity.

Then place a similar temporary barrier at the French side.

Transfer all carriage, freight and passenger travel to the established surface operating Ferry lines.

The final phase of the proposal revolves around setting up a committee to review the impact of the measures and determine a timescale for removal of the temporary barriers.

Pat Riley · Jul 29, 2015

Which reminds me of a game I played with me brothers when we were all emmigrating to escape the troubles, the famine, the violence and the social injustices at home. Never liked Liverpool anyway.

So we’re at sea for weeks and nothing to do. We used to climb up one of the big funnels with a jar of those cocktail glace cherries we’d nicked from the lounge bar. When we got to the top we used to spread ourselves around the circumference of the funnel and then take it in turns to throw the cherries at each other and try and catch them.

We called it cross funnel cherries.

timsk · Jul 29, 2015

What amazes me is why the migrants think the U.K. is so much more desirable as a place to live than France - or other parts of Europe they've travelled through in a bid to reach our shores. Jeremy Vine is discussing this issue on Radio 2 today and someone phoned in suggesting putting up a giant poster of Piers Morgan on the French side of the tunnel. Should do the trick.

Mr. Charts · Jul 29, 2015

"What amazes me is why the migrants think the U.K. is so much more desirable as a place to live than France"...... because if you are fleeing deprivation and looking for a better life, you know that a lawless strike-ridden socialist land like France is the last place to settle

Richard

Forexmospherian · Jul 29, 2015

The Euro tunnel need another new entrance on the French side to assist the immigrants to leave Calais - and then we need to put a "U bend" in the new part and direct them back 30 miles south of Calais along with a big notice saying - "Welcome to Little Britain "

Pat Riley · Jul 29, 2015

Apparently they started pouring the concrete at the UK end, but it was too wet and some UKIP protestors jumped onto it. So it just ended up as a slurry with a fringe on top.

(I can keep this up all day and all night if necessary...)

timsk · Jul 29, 2015

Mr. Charts said:
. . . because if you are fleeing deprivation and looking for a better life, you know that a lawless strike-ridden socialist land like France is the last place to settle

That as may be Richard, but the wine is cheap as chips and the croissants are to die for. I went on a booze cruise last month and was really quite taken with the place! Weather's better too for the most part.

Mr. Charts · Jul 29, 2015

These people are desperate enough to have travelled thousands of miles under terrible conditions and to be risking their lives.
I think we should welcome them to the shores of Scotland's people's democratic socialist state.

Pat Riley · Jul 29, 2015

Mr. Charts said:
These people are desperate enough to have travelled thousands of miles under terrible conditions and to be risking their lives.
I think we should welcome them to the shores of Scotland's people's democratic socialist state.

Don't you think these people have suffered enough? Floods. Drought. Starvation. Casual violence. No work. No money. No prospects. Desolate landscapes. Speaking a language that few understand nor care to.

And you want to add to their problems by putting the migrants there?

Forexmospherian · Jul 29, 2015

Pat Riley said:
Don't you think these people have suffered enough? Floods. Drought. Starvation. Casual violence. No work. No money. No prospects. Desolate landscapes. Speaking a language that few understand nor care to.

You are being a bit harsh on the Scots here Pat ;-)

Mr. Charts · Jul 29, 2015

Pat Riley said:
Don't you think these people have suffered enough? Floods. Drought. Starvation. Casual violence. No work. No money. No prospects. Desolate landscapes. Speaking a language that few understand nor care to.

And you want to add to their problems by putting the migrants there?

True. That's unkind of me. Perhaps they should go to the Free State :clover: where the people are so nice. Or perhaps not, it would be too much of a culture shock for the immigrants going to such a beautiful wet and green land having come from dry barren countries.

Pat Riley · Jul 29, 2015

Mr. Charts said:
True. That's unkind of me. Perhaps they should go to the Free State :clover: where the people are so nice. Or perhaps not, it would be too much of a culture shock for the immigrants going to such a beautiful wet and green land having come from dry barren countries.

They'd all be welcome here for sure, but we're all so tightly packed in that we have to wait for one of us to go on holiday before another one can come home. Have ya ever seen the holding pattern over DUB? It's like a bee swarm.

Mr. Charts · Jul 29, 2015

It's only the banks of the River of Liffey (the only river made of pure Guinness in the whole wide world) that are crowded on an evening (and afternoon....and morning) as the locals imbibe unplumbed depths of their finest brew watching the world drift past. The rest of the country is empty.

hhiusa · Jul 29, 2015

Why should they be allowed in? In a more microcosmic scenario, let us say you always keep your house spotless and your neighbor never does. If every time your neighbor comes over to visit, he leaves a mess in his wake, how long before you disinvite him? Now multiply that concept by several million.

Splitlink · Jul 29, 2015

Pat Riley said:
According to the Daily Mail, a government think tank has tabled a proposal to solve the current migrant problems at the French side of the Channel Tunnel.

It involves placing a temporary barrier at the English side of the tunnel. A concrete bung in the tunnel itself. Then, allow as many migrants as wish to, to enter the French side of the tunnel until the tunnel is at maximum capacity.

Then place a similar temporary barrier at the French side.

Transfer all carriage, freight and passenger travel to the established surface operating Ferry lines.

The final phase of the proposal revolves around setting up a committee to review the impact of the measures and determine a timescale for removal of the temporary barriers.

I am thinking tank solution.

Pat Riley · Jul 29, 2015

Splitlink said:
I am thinking tank solution.

Arf!

Bloody Podemos lefties. Want to nuke every problem.

If the 5,000 migrants were blonde Estonian beauties we'd have Eddie Stobart convoys doing televised mercy runs on a humanitarian basis with Ant & Dec doing the 'charidy' hotline numbers for donations.

Britain's Got Tallinn?

hhiusa · Jul 29, 2015

Pat Riley said:
Arf!

Bloody Podemos lefties. Want to nuke every problem.

If the 5,000 migrants were blonde Estonian beauties we'd have Eddie Stobart convoys doing televised mercy runs on a humanitarian basis with Ant & Dec doing the 'charidy' hotline numbers for donations.

Britain's Got Tallinn?

They would most likely come here legally anyway. They only call you an immigrant if you are from an undesirable country. "have no skills for offer, yes NHS very appealing"

Blonde blue eyed Scandinavians! Where do I sign up?

Pat Riley · Jul 29, 2015

hhiusa said:
They would most likely come here legally anyway. They only call you an immigrant if you are from an undesirable country. "have no skills for offer, yes NHS very appealing"

Blonde blue eyed Scandinavians! Where do I sign up?

This thread is intended for intelligent people with a wry sense of humour and the ability to express themselves skillfully and with articulation.

Are you lost?

hhiusa · Jul 29, 2015

Pat Riley said:
Arf!

Bloody Podemos lefties. Want to nuke every problem.

If the 5,000 migrants were blonde Estonian beauties we'd have Eddie Stobart convoys doing televised mercy runs on a humanitarian basis with Ant & Dec doing the 'charidy' hotline numbers for donations.

Britain's Got Tallinn?

This is what you call skillful articulation?

Pat Riley · Jul 30, 2015

Ai Weiwei seen at entrance to tunnel at Calais.

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