windmiller wrote:PDQ Mobile wrote:Our National borders are not "wide open" in any sense.
There are people that have the right to cross them but they are subject to normal passport checks. And we share info across borders and countries.
Did you not know?
Do you never travel?
As for locking doors etc, if you can be bothered to look, the aspect of criminality has come up on here before.
The statistics show that EU citizens in the UK are less likely to be in prison than UK citizens in terms of percentage of the relative populations.
Yes our borders are not wide open, silly me.
I suppose they were closed to these fine fellows of humanity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-englan ... e-mansions
That there have been criminal groups from other nations or ethnic groups is not in doubt.
There have been dreadful gang offenses in several major cities.
Most of which had nothing to do with our membership of the EU but more to do with our colonial past.
The perpetrators were by and large UK citizens.
The link you offer to show how our "wide open borders" causes more crime is from April 2012!!!
Wow.
Could you find nothing more recent?
You have not even attempted to answer "slowsters" simple question. Why not?
Therefore I must conclude on this evidence that you have no solid argument and are merely a member of that group that hates all things across the channel, no matter what evidence is provided that there are significant benefits to close union with those (by and large) fine and tolerant peoples.
Do you prefer Trump?
A man that really does not have much grip on anything, except the odd cat.