Wes Tender

The bit in capitals was the comment by Hypochondriac referring to the immigrants into the UK from the EU via their freedom of movement policy, i.e. legal immigration. So as I said, MLG failed spectacularly by producing some unfunny comedian's video from before we had even voted to leave the EU, to answer posts about illegal immigration by boats across the Channel from France, via wherever As for your last sentence, yes, there is a large distinction, although I am not surprised you cannot seem to grasp it. Personally I have nothing against economic migrants who we invite here because they have skills and qualifications that we need, or in taking our fair share of proper refugees on humanitarian grounds. Most of those coming here from Eastern Europe via the EU policy, or in boats across the Channel from France do not fill that criteria. And who is this Weston Ender you refer to? Reading comprehension lacking today? Weston lives in Weston Super Mare, I live in west End. Is that clear now?

A spectacular failure from you, putting up a very dated 2013 "comedy" routine about immigration from the EU allowed under their freedom of movement of peoples policy, in response to the posts about illegal economic migration form all over the place. It seems that you don't know the difference between the two.

Of course there is a massive difference. Some on here would happily adopt the Angela Merkel policy of allowing anybody to come here who wants to. Perhaps they might like to help ease the situation by taking a few of them into their own households, so that the rest of us are spared some of the expense in housing them in hotels, feeding them, giving them spending money, allowing them access to free healthcare, education, etc.

Many of the arguments debated here.

A Ministry of Defence Source? You mean some Civil Servant sat behind a desk in Whitehall? Of course, it could be that some of that tiny minority of what you describe as "desperate souls" are in fact terrorists.

I have just heard that the Navy have appointed somebody to head up the operations to stop these illegal immigrants in the Channel. Great news

The hype before Brexit wasn't all concerned about illegal immigration; it was largely concerned with uncontrolled immigration from the EU as part of the free movement of peoples, one of the mainstays of the EU's Single Market policy. Regarding whether it is in France's interest to make it easy for them to come over here, then of course it is. Then France doesn't have the responsibility to accommodate and feed them whilst their status is determined. Whether they are genuine refugees, or economic migrants, we have the right to return them to France and should pursue a policy of doing so right away. Using the Royal Navy to prevent them entering our coastal waters should be seen as good training for when they will have to keep the fishermen of other countries out too.

Priti Patel is furious at the situation and has ordered officials to draw up plans for the Royal Navy to patrol the Channel and have the ability to turn back boats. The tide of illegal economic migrants isn't going to be stemmed when those who get halfway across the Channel tell their compatriots that they are welcomed by the Border Forces and transported by coach around the country to be accommodated in smart hotels. If International law dictates that genuine refugees have to declare that they are seeking refuge in the first safe country they arrive in, then why do they then subsequently cross several other safe countries to come to the UK? No, the majority of these so-called refugees are economic migrants. They have been primed by the immigrant smugglers to throw away their identity papers and to tell cock and bull stories about how their lives were imperiled in their own selected war-zone country. We can learn a lot from Australia and the methods it employed to halt their illegal immigration. Isolate any who make it over here in remote secure camps, or onboard specially re-purposed obsolete ships moored well offshore while their true status, origin and identity is determined. Word will soon spread that the UK is not the soft touch that it had been.

Your hotel will be half full of illegal immigrants put there by Border Force, so it will feel as if you are abroad.😉

Flesh out...bare little. Have you been looking at too much porn? 😉

The way that are dealing with the increasing flow of illegal immigrants coming across the Channel is a disgrace. Unless we take positive action to deter them like sending them right back at the shortest available opportunity, the trickle will become a flood.

Or those on mass demonstrations on racial matters, and those attending illegal rave parties etc.

As a Conservative, of course I share your opinion that market forces and supply and demand will determine where people go for their holidays. The same thing applied to the fall in the value of the pound post the referendum vote, when there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth about how the cost of foreign holidays would increase. Hoteliers and restauranteurs in countries like Spain and Italy which have a heavy reliance on tourism reduced their prices rather than face a substantial drop in trade. The tourist trade from abroad to the UK rose and with full occupancy, there was even some scope for price increases My views on this have not changed one jot before or after Brexit, but I'm pleased to see that on matters like this, you share them.

What messes? If you go back to the original post, you might detect a winky thingy at the end of it. I took that to mean that it was a light-hearted, tongue in cheek post. The subsequent posts responding to it are the ones looking for the (anti) Brexit angle. But posts looking for an angle on Brexit on a thread called "Brexit-enter at your own risk"? Whatever next?

A very good article in Conservative Home yesterday about exactly this subject and the title is self-explanatory. Naturally I already held the view that the likes of Parris were not to be taken seriously by the Party. He would feel far more at home in the Lib Dumbs nowadays.

It seems that you have difficulty in understanding what he did say. He certainly never said that he'd trade infections and deaths for an angle on Gibraltar or rioja tariffs.

WSS clarified his opinion in a couple of responses to questions asked about his original statement that you quoted. Why don't you reference those instead of attempting to put words into his mouth? Your response followed this comment from him:- Which part of that do you disagree with?

Your thought processes are truly bizarre if you can translate what WSS said into what your interpretation of it was.

You remoaners just love a straw man response, don't you?

Where did he suggest that?

Where did he suggest that?

I thought it was pretty spectacular and out of nowhere. If you think that there were better goals we scored this season, then the question begs to be asked, how come none of them made the vote. Naturally, had Rashford, Martial, Kane, Mane, Salah scored that goal, of course it would have featured.

What a farce that Che Adams' goal against Man City didn't make it to goal of the season. It was certainly better than most of MOTD's candidates. Oh well, the reason is simple; we are not a glory club and he is not a high profile player - yet.

Basing it on our fitness levels maintained during the lockdown, which have potentially been the best of any team in the PL, I'm not worried about our fitness levels dropping much. It seems to me that either the players themselves have been very disciplined in maintaining their fitness, or the club had some regime in place to ensure it. It has been instrumental in our strong finish to the season, and I'm confident that it will give us an edge again going into next season.