The Calais Jungle

      If you have only the slightest interest in current affairs it's unlikely you would have the faintest knowledge of the particular area of Northern France and of great discussion, known as the Calais Jungle. Certainly a cause of some embarrassment for not only France and the UK but also the European Union in general and their more or less total failure to deal with the challenges of large scale migration.
      The Jungle, being an appropriate title for such an area of tents, makeshift huts and piles of festering rubbish to form a depressing North European shanty-town. Of course the harrowing stories of crime, rape and even murder, the plight of many infants, often abandoned to make their own way. Hordes of young men, trying to stow away, in container wagons, sail to Dover, on makeshift rafts and even a case of one person trying to make his way up the Tunnel.
      There have been a host of certain "celebrities" visiting the site, shocked and anguished at the plight of the youngest people, immediately and rashly, pledging to throw open their many flats and houses to the forlorn families. We've heard stories of groups of British "Anarchists" travelling to the camp supposedly in some sort of effort to incite the inmates into some form of rebellion. Also a recent story about a proliferate number of aid agencies at the site, for good or bad, often seeking to profit from a number of government grants. Then there are all those truck drivers, constantly fighting to keep their vehicles secure and what about those people whom live in proximity to the camp?
      It's been said the camp held some 10,000 people at it's height, all seemingly with the sole desire to get to the UK although there is a interesting piece of European Law, known as the "Dublin Convention," which is meant to address this problem. The legislation states for refugees entering the union, they are supposed to register for asylum at the first country they enter. Yet certain countries who are expected to execute this piece of law have chosen to ignore or forget, any such policy.

  
      Last week saw the curtain finally come down upon the Jungle, amidst, flames, security forces and dis-organisation, with fears many will simply relocate to new jungles. Certainly new camps have already been noted, dotted around several areas of the northern coastline. For the others, the greater number, they have been removed to various regions of France, where they will be registered and settled to begin a new life. Hopefully and for everyone concerned, this will begin a new and more successful chapter, in this sorry crisis.