Peter K (Fionn)

Nit-picking? Or purely looking at things realistically? The Authorities have tried to crack down on this twice according to BBC reports (Not by Gilligan).

Take a look on any beach and tell me who should be there and who shouldn't. Cockling is licenced but it is all but impossible to regulate and police - that is the reality.

You ask the question - "God knows what miseries these desperate people fled from," Probably the same as around a billion of their fellow countrymen find tolerable.