howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1
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sad really
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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and 1 in 4 of the 'kiddies' was over 18!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/748938/child-refugees-gain-entry-uk-home-office-over-18-gain-entry-uk-migrants-calais-jungle
(the sound you hear in the background is STILL the rest of the world laughing at us!)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Bob Whysman
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'The Guardian named Mrs Moiseley as one of ‘Six Women who made 2015’
Just a little more than the recommended 5 a day Captain!
........impressive!
Do nothing and nothing happens.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Not altogether surprising as they must have lost so much business due to the reputation of the ports.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4202110/Calais-hotel-owners-held-people-smuggling.htmlCaptain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Bugger. Looks like the supply of poor little kiddies stuck in that well known underdeveloped country known as France is drying up before I managed to get one.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/08/dubs-scheme-lone-child-refugees-uk-closed-down
Perhaps I'll have to go to Malawi like Madonna to get some? They look a bit more exotic but have lovely big eyes and are quite photogenic and will show more easily how much I care as they won't look like my natural children!
http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/madonna-overjoyed-as-she-confirms-adoption-of-twin-girls-a3462086.html
Thank goodness we have got problems much closer to home sorted out!
http://www.adoptionuk.org/press-media/adoption-facts-and-figures
(Please, please, please could we have an emoticon for satire/irony/sarcasm etc?)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Not. Our. Problem.
I. Honestly. Don't. Care.
I sometimes wonder how we'd take it if we had regular visits from journalists and politicians from France moaning (for example) about the homeless in Dover?
Personally I'd tell them to bugger off and put their own house in order as it is non of their business, especially if they came loaded with tents, food and clothes, acting as a magnet to homeless people from all over the country.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:Not. Our. Problem.
I. Honestly. Don't. Care.
I sometimes wonder how we'd take it if we had regular visits from journalists and politicians from France moaning (for example) about the homeless in Dover?
Personally I'd tell them to bugger off and put their own house in order as it is non of their business, especially if they came loaded with tents, food and clothes, acting as a magnet to homeless people from all over the country.
It. Is In. Our. Interests.
Fact 1
Large numbers being attracted back to Calais.
Fact 2
It is known that very unpleasant chaps that have have been fighting for ISIS/IS in the middle east are now returning with sole purpose of causing as much indiscriminate carnage in the UK as they can.
Put the two factors together and it is not rocket science to work out that latter are reliant on the former being in large numbers so that they can hide amongst them. People who have survived Russian bombs in Syria and Iraqi special forces in Mosul will find it a doddle to enter the UK.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Howard, I can assure you that I am more than aware of the position relating both to Islamic Terrorism and Immigration matters, regularly talking to people involved on 'our side' and listening to experts rather than reading the rubbish in the popular press (FWIR I shall be in the HofC next week for the launch of a new report on "Islamist Terrorism:Analysis of Offences and Attacks in the UK")
You are getting noise and signal confused.
#454 Stet.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button
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Irrespective of your motives, there are basically 3 ways of getting into a country you think will not welcome you. 1: evade control points (e.g. come via Deal beach). 2: go through controls disguised as someone else. 3: go through controls pretending you're not there (i.e. clandestines). I don't see why the 2 groups in post 455 should be connected, even if they use the same methodology.
Oh, I guess I left out two ways - 4: swamp controls with your numbers; 5: go through unmanned controls.
(Not my real name.)
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Button wrote:Irrespective of your motives, there are basically 3 ways of getting into a country you think will not welcome you. 1: evade control points (e.g. come via Deal beach). 2: go through controls disguised as someone else. 3: go through controls pretending you're not there (i.e. clandestines). I don't see why the 2 groups in post 455 should be connected, even if they use the same methodology.
Oh, I guess I left out two ways - 4: swamp controls with your numbers; 5: go through unmanned controls.
Correct. Been there, done that, no longer have tee-shirt but kept hi-viz jacket in back of car in case of breakdown!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 687- Registered: 2 Jun 2009
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Security in Calais is a joke. If you are in what is called a 'hard sided' vehicle you will be physically checked, but in a soft sided one which are by far the majority you go through an alleged x ray. The vast majority are still not secured from intruders before entering the docks.
I will keep saying this until I am blue in the face '' NO VEHICLE SHOULD ENTER CALAIS UNTIL THEY ARE FITTED WITH SECURITY CORDS''
In the past a message of this nature would soon reach those of influence and acted upon, but sadly this no longer happens.
Button- Location: Dover
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Memo to self: must ensure UK (re-)joins Common Transit following Brexit and that seals are applied at place of last loading!
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
