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No. 27 The United Kingdom is becoming the dumping ground for Europe’s petty criminals.
Not too long ago we had the spectacle of Europeans staying at the Sangette transit camp in Northern France. Nightly sorties were attempted to get to the UK via the Channel Tunnel. Since the enlargement of the community (25) the UK appears to have relaxed all controls on population movement from the East European countries. Along with this migration come the petty criminals that have finished up in our prisons, receiving full board and lodging at the British tax-payers expense.
It would seem logical that our MEP’s start to move for legislation within the European Union to return all nationals to their own countries if breaking the law (imprisonable offences) in any of the 25 member countries. How each individual country treats these miscreants is their own affair, but it seems highly unreasonable that the UK prison service should be saddled with other countries (EU) criminals. We have an already overburdened prison population and it makes no kind of sense that we should accept responsibility for detaining such miscreants.
The sooner relevant legislation is passed in Brussels the sooner a sensible system can be in place to ensure that any Europeans that are looking for a soft touch will be deterred from coming to the West European countries unless they have serious intentions to support themselves and not become a burden on the state.
The Human Rights Act was not intended to be an umbrella for miscreants to use at will in order to flout European law. There can be no argument against return to their country of origin if they break the law.
It would seem logical that our MEP’s start to move for legislation within the European Union to return all nationals to their own countries if breaking the law (imprisonable offences) in any of the 25 member countries. How each individual country treats these miscreants is their own affair, but it seems highly unreasonable that the UK prison service should be saddled with other countries (EU) criminals. We have an already overburdened prison population and it makes no kind of sense that we should accept responsibility for detaining such miscreants.
The sooner relevant legislation is passed in Brussels the sooner a sensible system can be in place to ensure that any Europeans that are looking for a soft touch will be deterred from coming to the West European countries unless they have serious intentions to support themselves and not become a burden on the state.
The Human Rights Act was not intended to be an umbrella for miscreants to use at will in order to flout European law. There can be no argument against return to their country of origin if they break the law.
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