Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,166
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,560
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Something doesn't ring true here, if there were 9 traffickers on board there must have been a lot more that have paid for the crossing on there and speed boats are not that big.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,065
2 smugglers, 4 smugglees, 3 others presumably not on board:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-45068950(Not my real name.)
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,166
"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
jolly good show, close all med ports problem almost sloved.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
It's an issue all countries need to deal with
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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
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
its aproblem few are serious on
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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
John Buckley
- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
Keith Sansum1 wrote:its aproblem few are serious on
I would guess that actually a vast number of people are “serious” about the situation Keith, but unfortunately none in the government or opposition.
No surprises there of course, but one of the reasons that the so called far right parties are beginning to get a foothold across Europe and will continue to do so.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
They are the people that matter
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,166
"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
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
John Buckley- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
Don’t know why that headline describes them as “asylum seekers”, they’re nothing of the sort are they? Just simply economic migrants chancing their arm I would have thought.
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
If they are Christians or Zoroastrians from Iran they will have a valid claim for asylum in the UK as those minorities are routinely persecuted there, as are homosexuals. Or France. Or almost any country they will have passed through for that matter.
John Buckley- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
Bloody hell, once that free pass gem of information gets round there may well be a sudden surge of gay Iranian Christians enroute from Iran, fighting for a place in the dingy no doubt with the 25 year old bearded children.
Just saying!
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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- Posts: 8,166
Figures obtained under FOI rules reportedly show that over 34,100 suspected illegal immigrants were apprehended at ports & airports last year, 3% more than the year before.'Most were caught using carbon dioxide detectors, heartbeat monitors & sniffer dogs'
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7155146/immigrants-record-levels/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson