I agree pr00ne that we should admit those that we want to, whether we do so for humanitarian, economic, or for whatever other reasons. While we are in the EU we cannot do so freely. We need to regain control of our own immigration policies and not have them dictated to us from the EU, which is not united and never will be.
It could be argued that had we made peace with the Nazis in 1940 instead of choosing to resist and then to contribute to their defeat, that we could have become far more powerful than we are today. The deal offered was for us to continue to dominate the British Empire while Germany dominated all Europe.
That may well have been a false prospectus but many were lured by it then, just as they are today by the false prospectus that is the EU. It claims (and for which it received the Nobel Peace Prize) to keeping the peace in Europe since WW2. It didn't, NATO did. It claims that political union will follow monetary union. It won't, far more likely instead that it will erupt into outright hostilities.
Now we have the great challenge of our age, that of the haves and the have nots. Whatever the solution to that conundrum, it will not lie within the EU which is unable to resolve the economic imbalances within its own countries, sorry regions. If we send troops to France in order to forcibly repel impoverished and desperate migrants it will end in disaster for us and justification for the French. As Exascot says, it is their problem and they should enforce their own security in their own country. We can supply the kit but they should supply the protection needed to install it, otherwise the Chunnel should remain closed until it can be secured. There is a cost to national security, and that will be a part of it. We have always had to pay that price and, as long as we wish to be free of the domination of others, we always will.
Last edited by Chugalug2; 30th Jul 2015 at 12:36.