Record number of migrants crossing

[A Quiet Monkfish]

You may have noticed all the recent headlines about the shortage of workers in hospitality, haulage, care, food processing, agriculture etc. Chances are a lot of these people will end up doing those jobs, so this is a good thing.
All the evidence shows that migrants contribute more to the UK economy than they take from it, although you won't find that in the Mail or the Express.

All migrants aren't the same. Amongst those coming via France are convicted child rapists who last week successfully appealed their deportation, at £1000's of your taxpayers' money. I'm not sure whether you're suggesting child rape extortion, murder are good for the economy - the Mail and Express don't think so

[jeepster]

All migrants aren't the same. Amongst those coming via France are convicted child rapists who last week successfully appealed their deportation, at £1000's of your taxpayers' money. I'm not sure whether you're suggesting child rape extortion, murder are good for the economy - the Mail and Express don't think so

I am sure there would be jobs for them in the Met police, they are not doing so bad on rape, murder and the like.

[Eric Cartman]

All migrants aren't the same. Amongst those coming via France are convicted child rapists who last week successfully appealed their deportation, at £1000's of your taxpayers' money. I'm not sure whether you're suggesting child rape extortion, murder are good for the economy - the Mail and Express don't think so

I am all for deporting dangerous criminals who have no right to be here BUT we need to be careful that we don't grab for the bluntest instrument possible to tackle this. Priti Patel has proposed a system where by anybody who has been convicted of any crime by any legal system in the world would be deported (there was some flimsy promise to look at individual circumstances but we know how that goes from experience). Ask yourself this, how many legal systems around the world would you trust to give a fair verdict?

[Eric Cartman]

I am all for deporting dangerous criminals who have no right to be here BUT we need to be careful that we don't grab for the bluntest instrument possible to tackle this. Priti Patel has proposed a system where by anybody who has been convicted of any crime by any legal system in the world would be deported (there was some flimsy promise to look at individual circumstances but we know how that goes from experience). Ask yourself this, how many legal systems around the world would you trust to give a fair verdict?

There was meant to be a 'any crime with a prison sentence of >1 year' in there somewhere. Too late for a sneaky edit.