Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,100
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
i see the daily fail is winding up people again.
How I Wrote Elastic Man- Registered: 5 Dec 2020
- Posts: 106
so (if true) the UK collects illegal immigrants from French waters
At the same time it has been holding and returning legitimate travellers from the EU at the border
Suggests to me the main issue with migration/freedom of movement was, and still is, incompetent government
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
The government is terrified of the courts and the courts are the first resort of the asylum seekers.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#24 only if they get landed here in the first place.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Pass further along the bus please!
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
When they see these pictures the useless or should that be crafty French must be clapping their hands and saying "good that got rid of another lot".
The other day I read the RNLI were getting abuse for helping to rescue those in these boats, but what are they supposed to do ignore them and watch people drown which is completely against their ethos.
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
Jan, I am not sure the word is crafty more like sensible.
Perhaps if we stopped putting them in 4 star hotels and putting them at the front of the benefit and housing queue then they would stop coming.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Yup. Spread the word that Shorncliffe Barracks awaits and the flow will stop tout suite.
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,938
Button wrote:Pass further along the bus please!
The singing lifeboatman with arms outstretched:
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
Many people thought voting for Brexit would resolve this issue
How disappointed they must be
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
predictable keith
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
All covered in previous boat people thread, including the usual suspects who implied that leaving the Dublin Agreement wouldn't make any difference!
How many did we return before we left the EU? And how many have we returned since?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
good question ray.
Guest 4468- Registered: 2 Sep 2021
- Posts: 1
hm, that made me doubt some things
Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,938
Quote from BBC link: The government has authorised the Border Force to turn away boats - but only in limited circumstances and if Home Secretary Priti Patel personally approves each caseUnquote.
Not going to happen on 2 obvious counts:
1. Unless Priti Patel is manning a border force boat how long will it take get her approval?
2. Just the threat of throwing a baby/ child overboard by the immigrants will stop any attempt to turn a dinghy back.
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Same subject, same BS. Total inability to face up to the consequences of their own actions.
Last year the Home Office said that after Brexit transition, the UK "will be able to negotiate its own bilateral returns arrangements" with EU member states. You'll hear precious little about that now.
Just more utter garbage for the gullible.
