Encore Beyond Belief

The Daily Telegraph, 30 December 2008, page 13, Headline: "Calais opens shelter for British-bound migrants"
"There are currently an estimated 2,000 migrants sleeping rough in the Calais area, with most claiming to come from countries such as Afghanistan and Eritrea."
If they are in France illegally it's up to the French to deport them.
Monsieur Le Pen said, while leader of the Front Nationale, that if he came to power he'd deport such people to Britain. This is because Tony Blair accused him of being a racist.
On BBC Radio 3's Belief (30 December 2008), the novelist A.N. Wilson said that no one has a feeling of identity in this archipelago any more.
That, doubtless, is why many Scots vote for the Scottish National Party.
Meanwhile, scarcely a day goes by but that we hear of British soldiers dying in Afghanistan.
All of which reinforces my belief that the European Court of Human Rights acted wrongly when it determined in favour of three women (29 May 1985) whose complaint was that their husbands were not allowed to live and work in the UK.
The UK's problems are peculiar to itself, and the Council of Europe was set up to ameliorate (and/or prevent) them - not exacerbate them.