obviously I stand corrected on some of these points, but as someone who has been stopped on a number of occasions while travelling totally legitimately with my wife and on my own, both in a car and in a van full of personal possessions, my experience is obviously different to your own.

'No point in having a law if it is not going to be enforced'

who enforces the law against the law enforcers who have been found to be operating outside the law? - I still like this judgement and I still wonder what is so different about crossing from belgium to france and from france to england?