Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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I'm only surprised that he didn't 'identify as female' and ask to be put in an all girls school!
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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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Apparently a stolen Boulogne fishing boat just drove into Dover Harbour last night with 17 migrants on board!
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/breaking-incident-at-harbour-193310/
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Here's their track to Dover from Boulogne. The silly buggers forgot to turn off the AIS transponder!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Still no excuse for this.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Stone me! They turn out to be Iranians (yet again)!
As we all know most of the migrant traffic is being run by Albanian organised crime (who used to run the migrant camps the other side).
Meanwhile there are thousands of Iranians in Albania who are members of MEK (over 2,300 members of the MEK are living inside a heavily fortified base that has been built on 34 hectares of farmland in north-west Albania) - who are not nice people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran
Now do you see what's going on?
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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I’m surprised the boat wasn’t immediately investigated by coast guards for crossing the separation lanes at a 45 degree angle.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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I suppose they will now be granted asylum instead of being sent back to France. We are much to soft anyone who comes as an illegal should be sent back to the country they came from or their homeland.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Woke up to hear of ANOTHER 'migrant' boat in the channel this morning! (14/11)
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Brian Dixon
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Do we know if the fishing vessel that arrived today was also stolen? Is there a procedure for getting the boats back to the owners quickly as they are probably making repayments to the bank whilst unable to work?
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,938
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Do we know if the fishing vessel that arrived today was also stolen? Is there a procedure for getting the boats back to the owners quickly as they are probably making repayments to the bank whilst unable to work?
They’re probably making more money having their boats ‘stolen’ Howard, or they could wait for Theresa Mays Brexit sell out as I’m sure she will make some arrangement that suits them.
We also have many fishing boats laying idle due to the minuscule fishing rights our fishermen have in British waters.....perhaps we could donate these to their cause?!
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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And again! ?s=19
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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Perhaps the tanker is heading for the Arabian Gulf. If so it can drop its passengers off at a suitable Iranian port.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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I don't think they've been in Iran in many years.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Here we go again!
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Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Idiot journalists! This has got NOTHING to do with Brexit.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/16/migrants-pile-dinghies-cross-channel-dover-panic-sets-brexit/
(FWIW
TWO Border Force coastal patrol vessels in Dover tidal harbour this p.m.)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"