Left, Right or Middle

It is a criminal offence to enter the EU without documentation, but as the people are passing through and leaving by the time the authorities find them its cheaper to let them move on. 
What would you have us (Britain) do if the traffic was going the other way?  Please answer this. 

ZG, you say:

"but as the people are passing through and leaving by the time the authorities find them its cheaper to let them move on".

With the best will in the world, this doesn't make much sense.

Moving on. If hundreds of thousands of criminals were flocking down English beaches en route for the EU/France I suspect we would see street parties on a scale we havent seen since VE day. However, you can bet the government would stop it, there would be mobile patrols up and down the coast, foot patrols on beaches, vessels patrolling the channel and aircraft patrolling the coastline. The pro EU government would be falling over themselves to avoid annoying the EU.   

Indeed yes, I bet they would. And the UK government would obviously foot the bill. 

I bet you our government would do nothing. They don't even record who doesn't leave when they're supposed to. 


BTW, you do know you've just said France is better than us. 😅 😂 🤣

Not if it means voting Labour or Tory I am not.

Just a different least worst. 

I sympathise with much of your position. I'm just a pragmatist. 

Labour say they'll build more homes, that is the single biggest thing any government could do to help the poorest. 
Bring down rental and house prices, then even if the greedy bastards do raise interest rates so the poor have to give the rich more money they don't need. At least the amount borrowed is less. 

I like the Greens but the focus is too focused for me. Too much talk of making every home a thermos flask and no talk of making homes. 

What's your view on using tax to slow inflation rather than interest rate rises? 

Re your latter point, I have argued somewhere for exactly that. Interest rate rises aim to dampen down inflation by taking money out of people's pockets, takes little account of who is spending the most money and it misses many people entirely. Whilst others are protected  initially by fixed rate mortgages. And thus as a measure to reduce demand isa rather innefective, And the proceeds just enrich greedy bankers.

Far better to do the same thing - dampen demand by taking money out of people's pockets and thereby reduce inflation via taxation - band thus in a much more evenly spread way with those spending the most having their spending dampened down the most. And any proceeds can be spent on economically or socially worthwhile objectives rather more useful than enriching bankers.