Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
no great surprise, their numbers have been cut and checks are not made on eu nationals as far as i am aware.
the last i heard was that here in dover the custody facility was closed to save money.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
here is a parlimentry report about it all.
http://t.co/BTZexjwL3MGuest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
"The Border Force must demonstrate through effective, realistic planning that it can deliver its workload within the resources available."
This is an impossible task until staffing numbers are increased.
It must be as important to stop illegal/illict goods and people coming in trucks as it is for illegal people coming in at airports and sea-ports.
It's all very well reducing costs, but there is a limit where you can cut and then they create an impact on performance and service.
Roger
Guest 943- Registered: 15 May 2013
- Posts: 449
Just heard Charlie Elphicke on Radio Kent...He said it the last governments' fault and the figures were obtained during the Olympics when checks were relaxed..It was pointed out to him that the figures were based on days in April this year! It was also pointed out by the interviewer that 1,000 border agency staff were made redundant in 2010,Charlies' reply was that because of the financial crisis caused by the last Labour Government,, tough choices had to be made but 400 staff had reemployed back this year...
My feeling is Charlie is starting to sound like Prosser with a plummy voice...Charlie clearly had not read the report or researched it and was not on top of his brief as M.P. for Dover..You cannot keep blaming the last Government 3 years later! Financial crisis or no Financial crisis, You do not abandon our borders to Terrorists and Criminals...Absolute scandal by the Con/Lib/Lab elite...........Defend our Borders,,Vote UKIP.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 4,010
Report says Britain benefits from current rules ?
Government delays EU immigration report because it is too positive
A review into the impact of EU migration on Britain has been delayed because the Government feared it was too positive
The latest part of Whitehall's Balance of Competences study, which looked specifically at freedom of movement, had been due to be released yesterday. But, according to reports, it has now been shelved until next year because Theresa May, the Home Secretary, takes issues with its findings.
Amid concerns that much of the evidence submitted was broadly positive about current rules for freedom of movement, The Times suggests Ms May believes the study underestimates the problem of people coming to Britain to take advantage of the welfare state, which is central to the Government's rhetoric about cracking down on migrants. Mrs May believes that the EU free movement rules make it too easy for European migrants to come to Britain to establish residence and benefits entitlements.
The review, compiled by civil servants in departments across Whitehall, was commissioned with a view to providing supporting evidence for David Cameron's plan to negotiate a new settlement with Brussels before holding an in/out referendum if re-elected in 2015. Julian Huppert, the Liberal Democrat MP, said there was strong evidence that Britain benefited from the current rules, adding: "I hope that the report will confirm that."
Full report Independent.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
You have no shame reg that the public haven't been given a say on this issue
Why is the labour party so afraid of democracy?
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 509
How much longer are they going to fall back on that 'mess the last government left us in' ? No one can take them seriously anymore if thats the best they can come up with, the previous government having been left with the legacy of the mad bat's policies, and her being left with whatever Harold Wilson did, which takes us back to churchiil, spending all that money on the war, so it must be his fault.
Guest 943- Registered: 15 May 2013
- Posts: 449
Reg, no criticism of your chum, Charlie Elphicke?? Same old Labour, Same old Tories. ?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
same old bullsh#t from them all including ukip.
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
- Posts: 1,071
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41029999
Border Forces foiled an average of 153 attempts by migrants trying to get to the UK from France every day last year. More than 56,000 attempts were made by people trying to get into Kent from French ports and terminals in 2016.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Perhaps you should take heed of what your congregation have already posted on this subject today your grace? However as a man of the cloth you probably know what is best for us lost sheep.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,163
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