Calais anarchy - just as well Le Mans was last week!

[jazzdevil]

The news from the other side of the ditch is ridiculous... it's borderline anarchy over there!

MyFerryLink workers striking about their ferries being sold off by Eurotunnel (who were ordered to downsize their operation by the competition commission) to DFDS. So in protest and apparent fear for their jobs, they set tyre fires up at the entrance to Eurotunnel...!

The footage showing the traffic backlog as a result and the swarms of migrants around cars and clambering into moving trucks from the hard-shoulder of the motorway is genuinely disturbing... and yet I am at an absolute loss as to what Europe can do about that part of the problem.

[jazzdevil]

Lensey said:

My Mum & Dad were stuck in the middle of it yesterday, they were on their way back from Le Mans in the Camper, they said it was quite scary, there were constantly having the migrants trying the doors and windows...

This was what a guy on the news who was interviewed mentioned - he said the fear element was ridiculous. He was in an MPV bringing his child and wife's elderly mother home and they were all frightened about how things would/could escalate.

I fully appreciate that there's a problem and it's not clear how it can realistically be resolved. I think there's still a naive part of me that wonders why the UK seems to be so much more appealing than any of the other European countries...

madmacmcmad said:

With the worlds population doubling in the last 50 years and with no signs of slowing down, this is only going to get much, much worse. It is unsustainable. Without being inhumane, there is NO solution!

It's astonishingly scary to admit that you're probably right

Edited by jazzdevil on Wednesday 24th June 12:42