Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#1
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#2
I fail to understand with so many ships that plough up, down and across our narrow bit the Channel how these inflatables fail to get "seen" until they reach our side. I know the French stop some but definitely not enough of these illegals.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#3
I fail to understand why they want to come here in small inflateables
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
#4
We went to Calais yesterday on the 0740 sailing. Within half an hour we had seen 2 Border Force cutters heading to Dover with inflatables in tow.
Jan, a boat that’s only 2 feet above the water is incredibly hard to spot, even from quite close in calm water. When the seas are 3 or 4 feet high (as they often are) it’s nigh on impossible to spot them from the bridge of a big ship.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#5
Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 454
#6
They are also So small difficult to pick up on Radar..
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#7
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#8
Newly elected Dover & Deal [sic] MP Natalie Elphicke ...said: "The French have been given tens of millions of pounds of British hard-earned taxpayer money to stop illegal departures from their shores. I want to know where the money has gone."
Fair question. Given that, on 22nd January, Captain Haddock said: "For God's sake, 'our' Charlie is now calling for aerial surveillance! Doesn't he realise that the ONLY powers the French have to stop them is a law which makes it illegal to go more than 200 metres offshore in an unseaworthy craft! (NO, I'm not joking)",
I guess it went on making the craft seaworthy.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#9
I share the lady's frustration:
https://mobile.twitter.com/NatalieElphicke/status/1242810948869656577.
Do you think she's implying a container village in Port Ramsgate?
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#10
You'd think they would have to sit higher up to see anything:
(from today's Times)
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#11
Home Office confirmed 201 migrants crossed Channel in small boats yesterday
It takes total number of people to have made the journey so far this year to 4,349
Fortunately DDC is ahead of the game and is building 50 'affordable' homes so that's alright then!!
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/work-begins-for-50-affordable-homes-248390/"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,709
#12
Saw what you did there
Juxtapose two totally unrelated facts in the hope that the casual or uninformed reader will conflate the two - how very politico of you
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alexiatrade- Registered: 10 Oct 2018
- Posts: 89
#13
People move around this Planet......
so long as they are an economic asset it will never cease....
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#14
Ross Miller wrote:Saw what you did there
Juxtapose two totally unrelated facts in the hope that the casual or uninformed reader will conflate the two - how very politico of you
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#15
So, the thing we should remember here, Labour may have failed whilst in Govt.
But with all the promises made by the Tories
It's as bad if not worse .
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Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,709
#16
Bob we have been running out of space for the best part of 50 years plus according to anti-immigration campaigners yet we still seem to find spaces to build places for people to live.
Also as you gleefully pointed out not that long ago the death rate in Dover District outstrips the birth rate and mused on the need for more housing.
You have also alluded to the "benefit" of all those Covid deaths freeing up housing
So what is the real problem here?
As an ex-Home Office employee you know that even when we were able to return undocumented immigrants we rarely if ever did. clearly a failure of policy and implementation and as such shouldn't you and your fellow travellers be stoking anger at the government rather than the migrants?
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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#17
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#18
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#19
So this govt , like other UK govts have failed
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#20
Getting ridiculous
