Nope, their second language is English, that's why they head for the UK. Meanwhile the French take in far more than the UK. In fact the UK is ranked 14th in Europe for the intake of these unfortunate people.

"When compared with EU countries, the UK ranked 14th out of the individual countries in terms of the number of asylum applications per capita."

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A rep from one of the charities said they were horrified to see the French authorities watch the boat leave!
It is our problem as well though - it is a Europe wide issue which needs to be solved somewhow.
Immigrants coming to our shores is nothing new and we should do our bit but this way of travel is lethal and at the same time these poor people (most of the time) are also paying a ton of money to unscrupulous criminal gangs in the first instance.
It is all so sad but the French appear to be helping these poor people try and reach the UK and this is plain wrong.

All the UK has to do, to stop this, is simply go and pick them up.

Correct and the fact that France takes in and settles far, far more than the UK makes it even more of a no brainer in moral terms. Unfortunately the brexit mantra of chest beating and attempting to give the UK a 'bully boy' image by the current 'government' has caused the death of women, children and even very sadly a pregnant woman. Utterly shameful and in full view of the rest of the world.

Reuters filmed French police watching a dingy with 40 onboard, including children, yesterday just outside Calais. So not sure what help the police needed, but the evidence they're doing little as it's continuing today.

Nope, their second language is English, that's why they head for the UK. Meanwhile the French take in far more than the UK. In fact the UK is ranked 14th in Europe for the intake of these unfortunate people.

"When compared with EU countries, the UK ranked 14th out of the individual countries in terms of the number of asylum applications per capita."

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