Some beefing up still required here on the England/Scotland borderLord Nazh, our American colleague, draws a distinction between being against immigration and being against illegal immigration:
Illegal Immigration is the problem. In a running argument with a friend of mine, I support the border fence, he detests it. He says it will not stop the flow of immigrants, is too expensive, etc. I say the point is not it 'stopping' the flow, but slowing it. Trying to divert the people that want to come into this country into the places where they are EXPECTED to cross legally and to try to halt some of the 'not known' crossings we have now.
Actually, they're all getting into it now: Iran against Pakistan, Saudi-Arabia against Iraq and England against Scotland although clearly the English effort has some way to go before the rampaging Scots are finally fenced out [or in, depending on which side of the border you land].
A friend of mine used to joke that we should have passport control half-way down Wales, so different are the northerners there deemed to be from the southerners.
ReplyDeleteBorder fences are horrible things, though perhaps necessary, for, with the best will in the world, a country can't just let in everyone who wants to come. Here we have almost daily tragedies of people trying to get into "fortress Europe" via Sicily: they drown in, or die on the way and are thrown into, the rough sea off Lampedusa.
Thanks for not using a picture of Hadrian's Wall James.
ReplyDeleteIt annoys me when people say the wall marks the border between England and Scotland. It doesn't, never has and hopefully never will.
Hadrian's Wall is in England, by quite a long way.
We're not too worried about rampaging hordes of Northumbrians.
ReplyDeleteWe've still got Trident up here...
Lady and gentlemen, the battle lines are drawn. Bannockburn and Culloden, here we come.
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