Asylum seekers/Refugees Calais

[gingernut]

Can someone please explain why the asylum seekers/refugees in Calais are so desperate to come to the UK instead of staying in France?
What does the UK offer them that France doesn't?

[Mr Z]

Everything?

[theone]

In France they are housed in camps until the asylum decision is made.

In Britain they are in detention centres.

[rob murray]

If camerons wrong......why not welcome every single one of them into Scotland eh ?

[tonkatojo]

If camerons wrong......why not welcome every single one of them into Scotland eh ?

It would probably be a bit lively in Wick if the paper controversy is still live.

[rob murray]

It would probably be a bit lively in Wick if the paper controversy is still live.

Plenty of space in north highlands and a government thats keen on dishing out freebies....weather nay force them south into England.....

[golach]

Scottish snp msp's are discussing Identity Cards

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...itics-31715798

[cptdodger]

Maybe I'm being naive, but I do'nt have a problem with Identity cards, but then I'm one of the few people that do'nt have a passport or a full driving license. I refuse to pay £72.50, and also the cost of travel to Dundee to have an interview (I have never had a passport, I was on my dads) just to get a passport which I am not going to use. It certainly makes my life difficult trying to prove I am allowed to be in the country I was born in, the last time I went abroad was when I was 9, I'm 52 now.

I just thought it would make my life easier having an Identity card, but then, I do'nt have a problem with a national DNA database either, which I think they were trying to introduce a few years back.

[rob murray]

Scottish snp msp's are discussing Identity Cards

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...itics-31715798

This not what the url outlines...it illustrates access to an identity database that can be accessed by 120 organisations....one word....why ?

[theone]

This not what the url outlines...it illustrates access to an identity database that can be accessed by 120 organisations....one word....why ?

For the same reasons the SNP are appointing 'state mentors' to monitor every child as they grow up.

To allow the populace to be monitored.

The monitoring isn't a problem necessarily, it's how the information gathered is used that is the question.

[Mr Z]

Mignonet: England to blame for Calais crisishttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33760591

[BetterTogether]

So the Mayor of Calais is laying sole responsibility on the UK Govt, rather than the French Governments inability to deal with the immigrants already within their own borders and attempting to gain access to another EU country. Mind I suppose there would be those who may well be happy with ID cards for everyone to stop the black market in labour and cure the problem.