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@upthecreekyetagain wrote:

We may not be in Shengen but if the guy you mention who travelled freely between Belgium and France arrived in Dover with a Belgium passport as a tourist, do you think he would have been refused entry, whether or not we were a member of the EU?

 

I don't see any connection between Human Rights and the recruitment of local individuals as terrorists.

 

I'm not suggesting for one minute that we should relax our border controls - all I am pointing out is that calls for them to be virtually closed are unlikely to decrease the risk of terrorist activities but will most certainly make it far more difficult for, and make this country less atrractive to, tourists,and business travellers as well as making imports and exports more expensive.

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The connection between human rights is as you have pointed ou,t the home grown terrorists are recruited and influenced such as where extremists are allowed to preach radical ideasbecause if stopped it infringes their human rights, google human rights and terrorists you will get my drift.

There is more likely he would have been picked up since  he was from syria, and came through greece, not sure on what passport if this was true. But two or three of them had travelled to syria in the past couple of years, there was intelligence on some of them being radicals, and also one had an arrest warrant out on them. There are many flags on them that may have been raised had there been border controls.

Im glad you are not suggesting they should be relaxed, but there are some who do.