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Small boat arrivals at Gosport tonight - huge police motorcade

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PassMeTheInternet · Yesterday 22:49

This is the police escort for the latest small boat arrivals at Gosport tonight.

What on earth is going on with this country?

I don’t know how to link a video from Twitter. The videos show the full extent of the operation.

Small boat arrivals at Gosport tonight - huge police motorcade
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SoBoredOfSelfDoubtHowToGetOut · Today 06:08

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CoventryCity · Today 06:08

Slightyamusedandsilly · Today 06:00

Exactly. If you asked every #metoo victim, that would be the overarching finding.

You might want to ask yourself why that is? Why is a woman statistically more likely to be raped by a man she sees every day, rather than a man she might never see? It's a real fcking puzzle, ain't it?

whoopsnomore · Today 06:08

PassMeTheInternet · Yesterday 23:27

Does it look to you like the government are trying to stop the boats or encourage the boats?

I mean, once I saw they have pyjamas ready for the “asylum seekers“ I had real trouble believing they are not being welcomed.

Well the figures seem to demonstrate a dramatic reduction in the numbers arriving, so yes, actually.

Bitsostuff · Today 06:10

Valeryvictorious · Yesterday 22:55

Yet our NHS is struggling and needs more funding. And don’t get me started on defence.

But there’s money to protect illegals entering the country and then we will be housing them and generally looking after them.

There’s something seriously wrong here.

So seriously what do you think we should do with them? Shoot them at sea? Feed them to the mob? Hunger games?

whoopsnomore · Today 06:11

Yello24 · Today 05:43

Nothing to do with Brexit. Zero. There is always this comment on these threads. The traffickers have simply realised that boats work better than Lorries. We had no effective laws to stop this when in the EU and that hasn’t changed. It’s not about laws. It’s already illegal to cross a border in this way.

Before Brexit, there was the Dublin Agreement - https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9031/ Have a wee read.

Slightyamusedandsilly · Today 06:12

CoventryCity · Today 06:08

You might want to ask yourself why that is? Why is a woman statistically more likely to be raped by a man she sees every day, rather than a man she might never see? It's a real fcking puzzle, ain't it?

It means that I'm more in danger at home than from 'men on boats'. Get a grip. It's logical. Stop demonising.

Slightyamusedandsilly · Today 06:15

whoopsnomore · Today 06:08

Well the figures seem to demonstrate a dramatic reduction in the numbers arriving, so yes, actually.

Thank you!

Boat arrivals massively down.

Racist, right-wing hype massively up.

It's almost like actual boat arrivals wasn't the real reason racists are racisting, isn't it. A conundrum!

RVectensian · Today 06:16

JemimaTiggywinkles · Yesterday 23:00

Maybe if our upstanding citizens could behave like humans rather than animals the police wouldn’t need to be there. But when we are required to close lifeboat stations because of horrendous thugs the police are going to need to do all sorts of protection work that should be completely unnecessary.

People who have crossed in small boats should be detained and processed properly. Such a shame that police protection is required in order for immigration officials to carry out their duties.

Agreed

CoventryCity · Today 06:17

Slightyamusedandsilly · Today 06:12

It means that I'm more in danger at home than from 'men on boats'. Get a grip. It's logical. Stop demonising.

I see we won't get far with logic here.

Tiredtyre · Today 06:19

hmmdunno · Yesterday 23:11

Rubbish. The RNLI have been targeted, even boats slashed, by thugs. It’s perfectly legitimate for police to respond to highly coordinated criminal activity. Unfortunately there are many who would like to see societal breakdown and promote these right wing conspirancies. Radicalised by Facebook.

Radicalised by murders and rapes of our own people, in our actual lives.

Radicalised by our country falling apart in front of our eyes.

They are asking our kids to go to war now, the only adverts focusing on the Britsih. But they will not protect our kids in their own lands.

Slightyamusedandsilly · Today 06:19

CoventryCity · Today 06:17

I see we won't get far with logic here.

Oh the irony. A Tommo / Farage supporter attempting to invoke logic.

Rainallnight · Today 06:19

Fact alert!

The migrants were diverted to Dover by Border Force. The police presence was for the protesters. So we can thank them for diverting police resources, OP. @PassMeTheInternet

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/22/far-right-activist-daniel-thomas-slashes-dinghy-with-blade-while-rescue-worker-onboard

Slightyamusedandsilly · Today 06:20

Tiredtyre · Today 06:19

Radicalised by murders and rapes of our own people, in our actual lives.

Radicalised by our country falling apart in front of our eyes.

They are asking our kids to go to war now, the only adverts focusing on the Britsih. But they will not protect our kids in their own lands.

Radicalisation BY native Brits into far-right rhetoric and violence. This is the threat now.

Slightyamusedandsilly · Today 06:20

Rainallnight · Today 06:19

Fact alert!

The migrants were diverted to Dover by Border Force. The police presence was for the protesters. So we can thank them for diverting police resources, OP. @PassMeTheInternet

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/22/far-right-activist-daniel-thomas-slashes-dinghy-with-blade-while-rescue-worker-onboard

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Exactly.

menopausequeen · Today 06:21

JemimaTiggywinkles · Yesterday 23:00

Maybe if our upstanding citizens could behave like humans rather than animals the police wouldn’t need to be there. But when we are required to close lifeboat stations because of horrendous thugs the police are going to need to do all sorts of protection work that should be completely unnecessary.

People who have crossed in small boats should be detained and processed properly. Such a shame that police protection is required in order for immigration officials to carry out their duties.

Such a shame that local people don’t benefit from police protection

SeriaMau · Today 06:21

PassMeTheInternet · Yesterday 23:01

The size, expense and amount of prep planning going on here is incredible. Someone on Twitter said it’s bigger than the police escorts he’s seen when nuclear weapons are transported.

Imagine if all this money and manpower was put into stopping the boats?

Yes just imagine.
Now tell me precisely what you would do to stop the boats crossing?

LakieLady · Today 06:22

PassMeTheInternet · Yesterday 23:06

No idea why you think ordinary people protesting makes them “like animals”. They are concerned people worried about what is happening to their country and worried that the government is doing nothing to stop boatloads of young undocumented men from cultures completely different to our own arriving.

No need to use dehumanising language.

They are "concerned people" who would happily see, and be complicit in, other people drowning. If that's what being "concerned" means, I'd prefer people not to give a fuck, frankly.

The RNLI are bloody heroes and to put them in jeopardy too is beyond vile. I was so angry that I've set up a standing order donation for them now.

sesquipedalian · Today 06:22

@ whoopsnomore -
According to Migration Observatory, the numbers returned under the Dublin agreement were “an average of 560 a year between 2008 and 2020.”

Tiredtyre · Today 06:22

Bitsostuff · Today 06:10

So seriously what do you think we should do with them? Shoot them at sea? Feed them to the mob? Hunger games?

We should stop them coming over.
We do not need to accept the French bringing them to the RNLI to collect and ferry to the UK.

We have ro pay for these foreign men. They leave dead women in their boats, burned and raped and murdered. Children too. But are they punished?
The Government knows bad agents use this method ro get in to the UK.

This is a clear and present danger. A country with no borders is not a country.

Slightyamusedandsilly · Today 06:24

menopausequeen · Today 06:21

Such a shame that local people don’t benefit from police protection

Exactly. Stop the protesters. Put the police back where they belong, supporting the communities they work in.

CoventryCity · Today 06:24

Slightyamusedandsilly · Today 06:19

Oh the irony. A Tommo / Farage supporter attempting to invoke logic.

Oh - where is there a 'tommo / farage' supporter? You must tell me since you seem to know stuff I do not!

And btw - you're so obviously lacking in the ability to understand proportionality (or lacking the desire to, who knows), there's not much point engaging with you further.

EveningSpread · Today 06:25

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Tiredtyre · Today 06:27

SeriaMau · Today 06:21

Yes just imagine.
Now tell me precisely what you would do to stop the boats crossing?

Why should she tell you? Why do you not tell us, precisely, why you are happy for foreign men to break our borders?

Why you are happy to pay for these foreign men, rapists, murderers and terrorists hidden amongst them.
Why are you happy to see our country fail?

Countries such as China and Iran and Russsia organise infiltration and bad migration to weaken a country. It is a tactic of war.

If you are too stupid to understand, you have my pity. If you support this for any other reason, you are a danger to the general public and you do not stand with Britain.

Slightyamusedandsilly · Today 06:27

SeriaMau · Today 06:21

Yes just imagine.
Now tell me precisely what you would do to stop the boats crossing?

I'd stop the protesters and stop the need for a massive police presence and preventing safety at sea (RNLI not safe). It isn't just immigrants that need the RNLI you know.

CoventryCity · Today 06:28

LakieLady · Today 06:22

They are "concerned people" who would happily see, and be complicit in, other people drowning. If that's what being "concerned" means, I'd prefer people not to give a fuck, frankly.

The RNLI are bloody heroes and to put them in jeopardy too is beyond vile. I was so angry that I've set up a standing order donation for them now.

I agree with you about the RNLI needing money. What I really want to know is why is the RNLI run on donations / volunteers? It should be a gvt service, like the NHS. Same for the Air Ambulance service

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