Calais Migrants

Imagine living in Syria, if that is at all possible.

You have your government, the people who are meant to protect you, chemical bombing you, and when you try and flee the chemical bombs you run the risk of bumping into ISIL or ISIS, who sometimes bury people alive, including women and children, Crucifixion, or burning.

Can anyone blame these people for fleeing? No.

I wouldn't a child of mine growing up in a country like that either.

However, here's where I get confused.

The EU states that the first European country you step foot on, is the country you claim asylum.

So firstly, how are they getting through all these other countries and making it to Calais? Why aren't the other European countries doing more to stop this?

Secondly, what is so special about the UK that people are willing to risk their own lives, and the lives of their children, to make it here?

Some believe it's our benefit system, others believe it's our housing (not that there's enough houses to go round), others believe it's to escape the horrors of their native countries, and some believe it's because they're pretending to be asylum seekers, and actually they're ISIL wanting to plant a bomb.

France, buy and large, is a safe country, they have jobs, housing, health care, why are people so desperate to get here?

What can they get here that they can't in France, or Germany, or Belgium?

Why aren't other countries within the EU doing more to stop the migrants from moving from country to country?

Why does the EU look to us to take the brunt of this mass migration? Especially as we're one of the smallest countries within the EU.