UK/France Chunnel site of organized illegal immigrant… activity? Plot? Campaign?

I wonder how close a British finger was to the Chunnel’s Big Red Button.

France deployed 120 riot police to Calais on Wednesday to bolster security after thousands of migrants tried to enter Britain through the Channel Tunnel in recent days, with the resulting chaos leading to at least one death.

Seriously. I find it difficult to believe that the English* haven’t wired that tunnel with emergency detonators. Or have a bunker-buster handy. Something. It was a minor miracle that they dug the Chunnel in the first place.

Via Instapundit.

Moe Lane

*This might be the ghosts of my ancestors talking, mind you. They haven’t quite forgiven the Sassenach for being, well, Sassenach. It’s not so much that the Irish never give up a grudge as it is that we never bloody forget one…

11 thoughts on “UK/France Chunnel site of organized illegal immigrant… activity? Plot? Campaign?”

  1. > emergency detonators.

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    No need for something so drastic. I would think a series of heavy watertight doors would do just as well, and not have irreversible effects if they were ever deployed.

    1. I’ve long suspected that the British regard the EU as equal parts threat and opportunity .. after all, Napoleon and that Austrian chap.
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      So .. they may not have opened the doors or shut off the lights and pumps, or otherwise .. hampered normal operations .. but I’d be very surprised if there wasn’t a squad of hard men (and possibly women) ready to shoot if anyone popped up on the Brit side.
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      Mew

      1. Yes, but would the order be given?
        We know how the English look at the EU and the levels of immigration.
        But we also know their political class is much more enthusiastic about both.

        1. Which order? Kill the power to the chunnel and let it flood? Not yet. “Shoot the rioters”? That, I could believe .. and likely the officer responsible would be a private in the morning.
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          Mew

        2. Sure, the Labour Party wants unfettered immigration, but the English masses no longer are “for” it…that’s why the Tories have won such a large majority in Parliament. Plus, the sex scandals with “Asian” men has caused a fundamental change in how the English view immigration now.

  6. Is there some sort of rumor that UK welfare pays more than the French? Both countries have allowed themselves to be overrun, the idea was to replace their own low birth rates with foreign workers for the lower jobs.

    That was the original plan, at least. The revised plan seems to be simple surrender.

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