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Calais goes UP IN FLAMES: Migrants fight to get into UK as ferry workers block harbour
Express ^ | Jul 31, 2015 | MARK REYNOLDS, ROB VIRTUE

Posted on 07/31/2015 8:51:58 PM PDT by george76

FLAMES filled the air in Calais after striking French ferry workers blocked roads with burning tyres leaving the port now resembling a WARZONE.

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Fires, which are currently blocking access to the harbour, have plunged the crisis zone into further chaos.

It comes after Britain's borders faced more disruption last night as hundreds of migrants including children stormed the Eurotunnel.

David Cameron has said Britain is threatened by a “swarm” of foreigners and the migrant crisis in Calais was likened to a “warzone.”

Migrants were pictured clinging to a lorry as they left the port of Dover, while others in Calais were seen clambering over fences with children in tow.

More than 4,000 increasingly aggressive and desperate migrants largely from war-torn failed African states have stormed through fences in a bid to clamber aboard trains to ‘El Dorado’ UK

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Eurotunnel earlier revealed that since the beginning of the year it has blocked 37,000 migrants trying to make their way to Britain and that in the last month nine people have died trying to cross the Channel.

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The Road Haulage Association (RHA) warned that the lives of lorry drivers were now in danger because French police were simply no longer able to cope.

The RHA’s chief executive, Richard Burnett, said: “It has become clear that the French authorities in Calais simply cannot cope. This has become an untenable situation and is obviously now beyond the capabilities of the French police. The RHA strongly repeats its request, made in June, for deployment of the French military to contain, segregate and control the migrant threat.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; britain; calais; calaismigrants; campofthesaints; europe; eurotunnel; migrants
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To: LouAvul

George Bush? Please. Try George Soros.


21 posted on 07/31/2015 9:22:26 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: All

Maybe those half-sissies will finally shut-up about how great it is in the UK without access to firearms once they have a bunch of reckless illegal’s invading them.


22 posted on 07/31/2015 9:23:56 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (I stopped drinking the Trump Kool-Aid July 25th and will support Ted Cruz for POTUS)
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To: All

Maybe those half-sissies will finally shut-up about how great it is in the UK without access to firearms once they have a bunch of reckless illegal’s invading them.


23 posted on 07/31/2015 9:23:56 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (I stopped drinking the Trump Kool-Aid July 25th and will support Ted Cruz for POTUS)
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To: tumblindice

Dock a ship in Calais with signs that say “free passage to England”. Turn left and head to the most southern port on the western side of Africa. Boot their butts off.


24 posted on 07/31/2015 9:24:22 PM PDT by biff
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To: george76

Europe is sinking fast…they better do something about it NOW.


25 posted on 07/31/2015 9:25:42 PM PDT by toddausauras ( Leftplosion.)
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To: george76

Interesting - Britain must offer a lot more freebies than France.


26 posted on 07/31/2015 9:25:47 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: george76

If there were no restrictions, the whole of sub-Saharan Africa would empty out within five years time. Europe would enjoy putting up with hundreds of millions more uneducated, unskilled, mostly uncivilized, unassimilable immigrants. Wouldn’t that be great! /s


27 posted on 07/31/2015 9:26:16 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Leaning Right
"George Bush was the worst US president, ever."

Oh good grief...what baloney.

28 posted on 07/31/2015 9:28:17 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: george76

Bring back the benevolent dictator, installed by the CIA, to these African nations.

He can restore order so these people don’t feel compelled to leave.


29 posted on 07/31/2015 9:38:38 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: driftless2
George Bush is a good and honorable man. But he bet everything on “islam is a religion of peace”, and he bet everything on nation-building in the Middle East.

Both bets have failed, spectacularly. Sooner or later, helicopters will take off from the roof of the US embassy in Kabul, just like as in Saigon. And the same will most probably happen in Baghdad.

Radical islam is emboldened. The Arab street sees islam as being the winner, long-term. And the Arab street is probably right.

It pains me to say it. I respect George Bush. He had the best of intentions, no doubt. But he lit the fire. Stable regimes have collapsed. Refugees are on the move. And the entire West will pay dearly for this.

30 posted on 07/31/2015 9:38:58 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: arthurus

Reminder to self to read that book.


31 posted on 07/31/2015 9:40:23 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: biff

It might be easier to just flood the Chun—Eurotunnel.


32 posted on 07/31/2015 9:42:38 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: dinodino

Hit em with the 50


33 posted on 07/31/2015 9:43:49 PM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: Southack
It has everything to do with bush. His refusing to defend the borders. His constant insistence that we accept his "will" and be compassionate "conservatives."

You're a fool if you don't recognize his role in all of this. Just another mindless, diapered bushbot.

Man, you people are worse than disgusting. You're ... just ... stupid.

34 posted on 07/31/2015 9:44:05 PM PDT by LouAvul (There is no more GOP. There is RAT, and RAT lite.)
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To: Leaning Right
I don't think there was an ounce of honor in him. His stabbed his constituents in the back, grew government larger than any of his predecessors, opened the borders to let in third world animals that we, even here on FR, begged him to stop.

But jorge did what jorge wanted, his base notwithstanding.

35 posted on 07/31/2015 9:48:29 PM PDT by LouAvul (There is no more GOP. There is RAT, and RAT lite.)
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To: Leaning Right
Absolutely correct. Obama isn't doing anything alien to his base. He's following the party line.

George Bush betrayed his constituents and flaunted his arrogance. His arrogance concerning education, big government, the borders, the third world invasion. And then his wife revealed how she felt about abortion, homosexuality, and we just knew we'd all been duped.

36 posted on 07/31/2015 9:52:04 PM PDT by LouAvul (There is no more GOP. There is RAT, and RAT lite.)
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To: LouAvul
It has everything to do with bush.

Yes! As I noted in an earlier post, Bush is a decent and honorable person. But he made many major mistakes, both domestically and internationally. If we conservatives cannot acknowledge that, then we are doomed to repeat those mistakes. It's just that simple.

37 posted on 07/31/2015 9:55:22 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: LouAvul
I don't think there was an ounce of honor in him (Bush).

I suppose here we will gently disagree. IMHO, Bush made decisions like a well-intentioned but naive 10-year-old would. Be compassionate, and hope for the best. I'm no great fan of FDR. But if FDR had Bush's philosophy, we'd all be speaking either German or Japanese.

38 posted on 07/31/2015 10:00:22 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Leaning Right
I don't agree that Bush is honorable. He was elected by voters who beg for small government and secure borders. He absolutely turned his back on us and grew government bigger than ever. He infused liberal precepts into public education. He not only refused to secure the borders, but punished our law enforcement who tried. And all the while the third world animals were streaming across the borders, he was chastising us for not being "compassionate" (conservatives).

He stabbed us in the back. Repeatedly. And followed his own anti Conservative and anti America agenda.

He is why Obama got elected, and that's neither the definition of decent nor honorable.

39 posted on 07/31/2015 10:02:30 PM PDT by LouAvul (There is no more GOP. There is RAT, and RAT lite.)
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To: george76

More than 4,000 increasingly aggressive and desperate migrants largely from war-torn failed African states have stormed through fences in a bid to clamber aboard trains to ‘El Dorado’ UK

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Send them to Vatican City.


40 posted on 07/31/2015 10:06:29 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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