I feel really sorry for the lorry drivers
Only the lorry drivers?
Personally I feel really sorry for
everyone affected. The lorry drivers and all the other businesses, including Eurotunnel, who are obviously now losing huge amounts of money from the disruption, the residents of that part of Kent who are facing massive congestion on their roads - and I'm guessing it can't be good for the residents of Calais either. The tourists who are being delayed trying to travel across the Channel. And of course the migrants themselves - who are, let us not forget, the people suffering worst of all. Many have fled terrible war or persecution, been ripped off by people traffickers, and now stuck living in camps in dreadful conditions.
I don't know what the solution is - although it's obvious there's a pretty massive failing by the French authorities. In the long term, I imagine the only way to properly solve the problem is to - umm - stop the wars and persecution in Africa and the Middle East that has lead so many people to be so desperate to get into Europe in the first place. But that obviously requires a lot more international cooperation and a lot more willingness to intervene abroad than is currently the case (if it's even possible at the moment).
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I couldn't agree more. Your 'country' is an accident of birth. Why do we have any more right than anyone else to live on this particular island?
I think it's clear that the number of people across the World who want to live in the UK massively exceeds the number of people who can reasonably be accommodated here - and in that situation clearly there must be some mechanism to limit the numbers living here. And it doesn't seem unreasonable in that situation that the people with first claim to live on this island are the ones who've grown up here - for whom the UK is already their home. And in that sense I would disagree with you, and say that 'we' do have substantially more right to live here than people who have no prior connection with the UK.
(But at the same time, on any moral grounds, migrants - even illegal migrants - should be treated fairly and humanely - it seems clear to me that in many cases, thanks to considerable anti-migrant xenophobia in the UK and across much of Europe, that's not happening).
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I very much agree and the problem needs to be stopped at source with these unseaworthy wrecks destroyed to prevent them setting sail in the first place
I agree with you to the extent that in the current situation, that may be the least-bad 'solution' for the time being - and I certainly think it's worth pursuing as
part of a wider solution. But I wouldn't describe destroying the boats as stopping the problem 'at source' - since that will just leave lots of desperate people trapped in warzones or in countries in which they face persecution. Or of course, leaves them in Libya, thus in effect passing the problem on to that country, which is not remotely in any state to deal with it!