Yvette Cooper calls for UN intervention over escalating Calais migrant crisis

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Labour leadership candidate blasts dehumanising rhetoric used by foreign secretary Philip Hammond as she seeks to implement ‘proper humanitarian plan’

Britain and France should call in the UN to help resolve the dangerous migrant crisis in Calais, according to Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary and Labour leadership candidate.

Cooper said intervention from the UN was necessary to end the deadlock that is seeing the French government leave people to attempt to enter the UK illegally.

Speaking to the Guardian, she proposed an agreement that would allow the UN high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) to start registering asylum applicants among those camping in Calais.

At the same time, the UK government should also accept more UN-certified refugees who may be fleeing conflicts such as that in Syria, she said.

Cooper made the proposal after Philip Hammond, the foreign secretary, drew criticism for talking about “marauding” African migrants and warning that they could threaten Europe’s living standards and social structures.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/10/yvette-cooper-calls-un-intervention-escalating-calais-migrant-crisis

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How many of these immigrants the Labour leadership planning to feed and housing? I mean from their own pocket on their own property? BTW the UN proved to be powerless, incompetent and corrupt in almost any case it intervened in the past, why anyone should accept them as judges?

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talk about political suicide. the 5% of brits who according to polls favour more immigration are all going to vote for corbyn.

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I went to Calais last April to see "the problem" with my own eyes, and it's very true it's getting worse and worse. The French police are arresting people trying to get to the UK only to set them free a few hours later, so it's useless. French or English, nobody wants to be seen as the bad guys who will send those poor people home, but they don't want to accept them at the same time, so things are only going worse.

Shops have closed in Calais. The presence of hundreds of migrants in every street is bad for business. There used to be tourists in Calais, not anymore. The UN? Gosh, I thought the UN was only active in third world countries.