Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Rival protests in Dover as more migrants and refugees cross the Channel" video.
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Migration will continue while the UK remains attractive. The effects of civic-19 and brexit will be to produce a short term severe down turn in the economy. While the UK economy is being rebalanced, unemployment is going to be very high, with insufficient jobs for the indigenous population, so illegal migrants will find it near impossible to obtain legal gainful employment.
It could be argued that those who arrived here unlawfully have already shown disrespect for UK laws and may be prepared to continue to do so. If migrant numbers are to be reduced, those who arrived illegally should be deported at the earliest possible moment, and should receive none of the benefits give to residents and those who arrive lawfully. Those crossing the channel in small boats are not refugees, they are economic migrants, who must view the UK as a better option than any of the other safe countries they crossed to get here.
Rumours that the streets of the UK are paved with gold have never been true, but during an economic depression we will be lucky if the streets remain paved with anything other than pot holes. The government must stop an industry developing to support illigal migrants, that includes property developers and landlords who profiteer from local councils by providing accommodation for migrants. Arriving in the UK unlawfully should be an immediate bar to ever gaining UK citizenship.
Though out the above, I have been at pains to make a distinction between those who are legal migrants and refugees. and those who arrive unlawfully. Migrants forcing there way into the UK from the EU cannot be described as refugees or desperate people, nor are they victims, they are making a choice to leave a safe country to come to the UK without permission to enter, that makes them criminals, and they should be treated as such.
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