Quote Originally Posted by alh_p View Post
Not sure that's really the point... The UK's non-membership of Schengen is why there are seperate camps near Calais. If the UK were part of the Schengen agreement, it would just mean there would be fewer people camped out near Calais. All you really have to feel smug about is the channel
but that is exactly the point.

while they are camped outside calais they are not in dear old blighty!

the border-hoppers are prevented from hopping the border, the channel on makes the legal enforcement more effective.

Quote Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy View Post
Neither did we.
that was mainly because ireland didn't want to threaten the open-borders business with the UK was it not?