Monday 29 August 2016

France, home to the Sorbonne & rational thought

Britain's new Home Secretary Amber Rudd is in Paris tomorrow to discuss the jungle at Calais where 9,000 people, almost all young men, are trying to enter England illegally. If they succeed, they are never sent back to France. If, on arrival, they were immediately deported the jungle would soon close. Every year 30,000 people are refused entry to the UK. (Chris Huhne's 2010 figure.) My Japanese girl friend and I were sent back to France on 12 August 1979. Please see this blog's "Inhuman Wrongs" in 2008. If the people at Calais were granted asylum in France they would then be able to buy a ticket and come to the UK. Anyway, what's wrong with France? England's King Henry V liked it so much he wanted all of it (according to Shakespeare).