Manston

[cruiser2]

There is a lot of talk about the conditions at the Manston centre.

But no one is mentioning the conditions in which the immigrants have been living in France while they have ben waiting to get acros the Channel.
Would be intersting to see what they are like compared to Manston

[miasmum]

Good point Cruiser

[Osc]

Very good point - is that Manston the former RAF airfield? For a very short time, there was a flight from Dublin to Manston and we used it when going to a Femail meet in Canterbury many years ago.

[jenniren]

Good point Cruiser.

It's not on the airport Osc, they are using the Defence Fire Training and Development Centre. It's to the north of the airport, quite near the aviation museums on Manston Road. It's always remained heavily protected - with barbed wire fences and much of it obscured from view from the road. The airport itself has been left to fall into disrepair since it closed a year or so before we moved down here. There's been a split between locals as to whether it should be reopened. Every time it's given the go ahead it goes back to court. The main problem is it used to operate with 5/7 or so planes a day, the new owners of the land intend to make it a freight hub with 70 plus planes a day. A lot of people who live nearby don't want it and I don't blame them, the noise would be awful. Luckily we don't live under the flight path.

[cromwell]

Well let us use the correct terminology. They are not "migrants", they are illegal immigrants. They have committed a crime by entering the country as they have. They could sleep on the beach for me.
Most of them are working age men, not poor women or cutesy little children.

It really upsets me that the only thing our politicians get upset about is the poor conditions they live in. If so many of them weren't breaking the law, perhaps the conditions might be a bit better.

[Kaz]

I’ve moved this to the News board, but left a link on Cafe.

[Suff]

If so many of them weren't breaking the law, perhaps the conditions might be a bit better.

If they weren't breaking the law and every international refugee treaty to boot, nobody would be talking about "conditions".

Let's take these politicians to the camps in Turkey and compare "conditions". Turkey is meeting its international obligations by setting up these camps and making sure the refugees survive until they can go home again.

Perhaps if we created similar "camps" Britain would not be a target for illegal immigration? After all we know it is within international law; Turks don't live in these conditions.

[medsec222]

I did hear a suggestion that if migrants were not processed quickly enough they might be eligible for compensation of up to £6,000 each. I hope this is not true.

[victor]

The first thing that needs stopping is the Border Force taxi service
bringing them ashore.
Tow them back to France

[Suff]

Remember the Aussies and the "sinking" boats? They Aussies said "so you sink not our problem". There is no problem with people trying to force the Aussies to take them because they are "in distress on the high seas" any more. They know the response. ""We didn't ask for you and if you sink it is your problem".

The world ummed and ahhed and "condemned" them. But in the end the problem went away and Australia is not suffering from either illegal immigrants or sanctions for not taking them.

Food for thought.