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Originally Posted by Damien

Well what are the controls? The French have ID cards and also have a more regulated business environment which makes it harder for quick jobs to be done easily. The 'black market' he refers to are simple cash-in-hand jobs and such that are around.

Maybe the reason there is less of it in France is that their controls amount to really high unemployment rates irrespective of your nationality.

Either way I don't see how any of this helps. The solution needs to be addressed at the root. No matter how well we fortify Calais the migrants will still go there. Before too long France will say enough is enough and revoke the agreement to have our border there and then the problem will be at Dover.

Maybe we do need to look at ID cards again and introduce more 'controls'.

What will having an ID card resolve? and which 'controls' would you like to see introduced?

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Originally Posted by Taf

I believe I added a space between the figures and "pa".

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I do not begrudge genuine asylum seekers anything. I was just stating how much it cost us each year, during a time of less for all (except the rich perhaps).

Do you think that Jobseekers have it much better in the UK? After all they have to pay for their gas, electricity and water from their £8.27 per day (under 24 years of age) or £10.44 per day (over 24 years of age).

My water bill is £1.67 per day, electricity and gas £3.65 per day. So that would be £5.32 gone before I thought of feeding and clothing muself as a unemployed person. That would put me worse off than an asylum seeker!

An unemployed person is quite within their rights to seek employment in the EU member states..... Or to present themselves at another country to try and claim asylum

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Originally Posted by Taf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33754595

That's not small change for a cash-strapped country. £18,720,000 pa.

So cash strapped we can lose £1bn over night.....

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/20...-sell-off.html

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33769906