Sven Longshanks
Daily Stormer
October 31, 2014
The mayor of the besieged port of Calais has been speaking to the traitors at Westminster and she is not happy.
She says the UK is a “soft touch” and that the benefits system acts as a “magnet” to attract kamikaze treasure hunters from all around the world, ready to risk death for a taste of the fabled “El Dorado.”
BBC:
Natacha Bouchart added that the fences placed around UK border controls set up in the city “make everybody laugh”.“These people are ready and prepared to die to come to England,” she told the Home Affairs Committee.
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Ms Bouchart estimated that 2,500 illegal immigrants were now living in Calais and that most were Eritrean, Ethiopian, Sudanese, Syrian, Egyptian, Lebanese, Iranian and Iraqi.
Calais was suffering problems from “a lot of mafia and traffickers in this population”, Ms Bouchart said.
She added: “There hasn’t been a message from the British government or anywhere else that it’s not El Dorado.”
Asked by the committee’s chairman, Labour MP Keith Vaz whether the UK was seen as “a soft touch for those that want to come here”, she replied: “Oui.”
Ms Bouchart, speaking via an interpreter, added: “You have a much more favourable regime in Britain than other countries. The second thing is the entitlement to benefits of £36 which are given to asylum seekers or migrants, which is a huge amount for people who have nothing in their lives.”
Ms Bouchart said the “real magnet is the benefits that are perceived in Great Britain”.
UKIP said it had sympathy with Ms Bouchart at having to deal with the disturbances in Calais but the UK needed to send a message that “its streets are not paved with gold”.
“From her experience it is evident that even though Britain has not signed the Schengen Agreement, this country is adversely affected by the lack of European and French action on migration,” said the party’s immigration spokesman MEP Steven Woolfe.
“However, the problem she highlights is not one of the British welfare system, but of the way in which it can be misused.
“Welfare in the UK should be there for our own citizens, who have paid in, or whose family have paid in. It is not something for anybody turning up at our borders to be able to access.”
UKIP are the only party with a credible chance that are speaking any sense at all about the immigration problem. Surely, the citizens of Calais would agree.