You don't need a passport if your country is signed up to the Schengen agreement (UK and Ireland arent)
From Wiki
"In 2006 the directive on the right to move freely (2004/38/EC) was implemented, meaning that passportless travel is allowed in the entire European Union, if having a national identity card from an EU country. For some a passport a necessary anyway, since not all countries issue such cards for their citizens, and because Sweden requires a passport when travelling from that country to EU countries outside Schengen."
People from the EU dont need asylum to move to another EU country: they have the same human rights that the European Court of Human Rights in Spain, Holland, France, etc. If war broke out tomorrow and they fled the country, they wouldnt be seeking asylum, they'd be war refugees. It's not just word play, if someone is trying to get into UK and claiming asylum, if they are found to be lying or not suitable, they can be deported back to the country they came from. People from a EU counrty are entitled to come and go within other EU as they please.
I'm not disagreeing with you (dont think Cuebase is either, and I don't get your potato reference either), the problem is the social welfare in the UK and here in Ireland. There are NO direct flights from Nigeria to Ireland, yet we have thousands of Nigerian asylum seekers. Like someone else said, they went through how many safe EU countries to get here, why? Housing, welfare payments, medical care, right to bring family over after a set time. Look up Pamela Izevbekhai on Google, where a wealthy Nigerian with a bullshit story tries to claim asylum, goes to court 25 times (legal aid), and finally gets refused by ECHR. She's still in Ireland, but is meant to be deported soon. I'll believe it when I see it. A lot of people make a lot of money out of the asylum process, especially solicitors, and when it's allowed to drag on for years, they make more.
Anyway, blame the system. If Nigeria would give me a Ferrari, 10 bed mansion and blowjobs on tap, I'd be claiming asylum there!
It's easy to point to people who are obviosly foreign because of their skin, but there are way more homegrown welfare families who dont/wont work, but becasue they are "entitled" to benefits, it's almost seen as "not so bad". I think it is, mooching off the taxpayer with no intention of putting anything into it in income tax isnt fair on the ones who do work and pay their taxes, no matter who does it. ANd I know, they pay tax through VAT like everyone else, but where do they get the money to spend? The taxpayer.
It was worked out a while ago here that if you got all allowable welfare payments here in Ireland, a married couple with two kids would get the equivalent of €32000 if they were both unemployed. Cost of living in Ireland is way higher than the UK: I cant afford to go to the doctor or dentist at the minute cos I dont have €185 for the doc (€60 doc visit and €125 max for presciption) or €490 for dentist (400 for crown, €90 for filling), but if I was on the scratcher I wouldnt have to pay for the doc or presciption at least. But the welfare payments are much higher, €188 per week per adult I think it is now.
Should we allow genuine asylum seekers? Course we should. Should we have a controlled immigration system? Course we should. Should we have social welfare for the needy? Course we should.
Should we make sure that the people who REALLY need it get it, and layabouts are made to get off their arses and work and scammers are stopped of their benefits? Course we should!
With the politicains we have? No chance!