France takes part in Silly Week

From The Metro:

Illegal asylum seekers are to be offered £1,700 to go home in a last-ditch effort to rid Calais of its infamous 'Jungle'.

Town official Pierre de Bousquet said the 500 migrants staying at the camp needed to realise Britain was not 'Eldorado' where they could live in luxury.

He wants to give them cash and a flight back to where they came from. In most countries where these people are from, €2,000 is not nothing,' he said. Closure of the camp was inevitable, he said. 'The situation is unacceptable. Patience has its limits.'

You could also see this as an extra incentive to make the journey to the camp, I suppose.