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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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Tiredtyre · Today 08:52

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Tiredtyre · Today 08:53

SevenYellowHammers · Today 08:45

Genuinely asking, do you go down to the beaches to watch the boats unload and take note of the demographics on it?

Genuinely asking - do you?

Tiredtyre · Today 08:54

BIossomtoes · Today 08:49

Is there any evidence of this? A link to a reputable source perhaps?

Do your own research

Catsandcheese · Today 08:55

moonraker0 · Today 08:45

Nothing like a spot of virtue signalling to make your day brighter. Most people don’t care who you donate your money to but it must make you feel so better to tell everyone how good you are.

Have a great day 😊

RumPidgeon · Today 08:55

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Replacement migration is a demographic concept analysed in a 2000 United Nations report that explores the volume of international migration needed to offset population decline and ageing caused by low fertility rates.

MaturingCheeseball · Today 08:58

Follow the money:

Who is making a great deal of money from coach hire? Providing clothes for the men? Interpreters, translators, legal advice.

Clearsprings the housing organisation is making millions.

Catsandcheese · Today 08:58

BIossomtoes · Today 08:49

Is there any evidence of this? A link to a reputable source perhaps?

These are in short supply, sources are usually just somebody off twitter.

BIossomtoes · Today 08:59

Tiredtyre · Today 08:54

Do your own research

In other words no.

TallulahBetty · Today 09:01

And as usual, it is young men. No signs of women or kids.

This isn't asylum - this is an army.

Tiredtyre · Today 09:02

BIossomtoes · Today 08:59

In other words no.

No, it means what I wrote. I do not do double speak.

moonraker0 · Today 09:02

BIossomtoes · Today 08:49

Is there any evidence of this? A link to a reputable source perhaps?

A quick google search will throw up news articles reporting this happening to women trying to cross the channel and get to the Canary Islands to name a few.

BIossomtoes · Today 09:05

TallulahBetty · Today 09:01

And as usual, it is young men. No signs of women or kids.

This isn't asylum - this is an army.

But I thought women were being murdered on boats? And a baby died earlier this year. I’m confused now.

EasternStandard · Today 09:06

moonraker0 · Today 09:02

A quick google search will throw up news articles reporting this happening to women trying to cross the channel and get to the Canary Islands to name a few.

Yes it’s easy for the people asking to do it.

AnonyMumAuDHD · Today 09:06

What I don’t understand is: they are in inflatables. These are inflated on the French shores. Why don’t the French simply take a knife to them at the shoreline to deflate them, before anyone has boarded, before anyone is at risk. If you disable the boats at source, no-one can board them?

2dogsandabudgie · Today 09:06

pulpJarvis · Today 07:13

This really. Very few boat crossings this year.

A few means hardly any, so that isn't true. Whilst the numbers crossing have fallen, over 17,000 have still come across in small boats so far this year. That's a lot of people to suddenly find accommodation for.

No one NEEDS to make the crossing. There are criminals making huge amounts of money from it.

Dollymylove · Today 09:08

PickAChew · Yesterday 23:13

Imagine if the police and RNLI were allowed to get on with their jobs of escorting those immigrants to the processing centres without having to put all those extra resources into herding protesters, including children who want to drown them.

Imagine if our borders were properly policed and intruders sent back immediately

EasternStandard · Today 09:09

AnonyMumAuDHD · Today 09:06

What I don’t understand is: they are in inflatables. These are inflated on the French shores. Why don’t the French simply take a knife to them at the shoreline to deflate them, before anyone has boarded, before anyone is at risk. If you disable the boats at source, no-one can board them?

They do, for a few, but often people on it mean they can’t.

Now boats are leaving from much further away to avoid that anyway. The one in the op was at sea for 30 hours.

5MinuteArgument · Today 09:10

TallulahBetty · Today 09:01

And as usual, it is young men. No signs of women or kids.

This isn't asylum - this is an army.

Yes, and as long as the pull factors are there, they will come. Accommodation, food, clothes, ready access to doctors and dentists, activist lawyers, much higher acceptance rate for asylum claims than France, endless appeals, little chance of being deported.

The government are worried about the growing anger about all this and that's why they're going to clamp down hard. Which will just create more anger.

ednaclouda · Today 09:10

Valeryvictorious · Yesterday 23:02

Yes, that’s exactly where the money should go.

i'm sorry if i'm gonna be roasted
we're an island we cant take any more

angelos02 · Today 09:10

Dollymylove · Today 09:08

Imagine if our borders were properly policed and intruders sent back immediately

Which is exactly what should be happening. But the government aren't doing anywhere near enough. For ages I've been wondering why they are allowing it. I'm not a conspiracy theorist on anything else but this one has me wondering. More immigration in 20 years than in the previous thousand. Very strange. Can't blame Brexit either as it is happening all over the West.

EmeraldRoulette · Today 09:12

I don’t have the BBC

I am hearing this morning that BBC are reporting the local residents of the area as being stupid because they “mistakenly” thought the boat was landing there

It was

The local MP, Caroline someone, actually asked the home office for it not to!

And that explains why I don’t have the BBC.

AnonyMumAuDHD · Today 09:13

EasternStandard · Today 09:09

They do, for a few, but often people on it mean they can’t.

Now boats are leaving from much further away to avoid that anyway. The one in the op was at sea for 30 hours.

But they don’t climb on them UNTIL they are inflated, do they? They need to get them AS they are being inflated? And/or before they reach the shore for people to climb on them? Ie they need officers in the water along the shore proactively disabling the boats.

ETA I see from google that there is a taxi boat system to get them out to the boats now, but there must be something that can do to prevent those? They need a large task force to act on this even if just for a few months to break the business model.

CoffeeAndACroissant · Today 09:14

The police can't win.

They escort them in and then you get nonsense posts like this with people spouting all sorts of drivel about conspiracy theories to bring people in etc etc.

They don't escort them in and then either one of two things happen

The migrants make it safely but undocumented / unregistered, free to do whatever they like.

The migrants don't make it because some racist thug takes knives to their boats, as happened the other day, and the police are villified for letting it happen. Meanwhile RNLI volunteers are once again put in harms way because these "concerned citizens" are actually violent bellends who would happily rape their wives and girlfriends whilst shouting loudly about brown sex offenders.

FirmSnake · Today 09:14

SevenYellowHammers · Today 08:52

100% to paying more tax, donations, volunteer work- what ever is needed. I live in a tiny 2 up 2 down with two other adults so would struggle with an another, but definitely I would give short term shelter to someone with none.

Nothing whatsoever stopping you from doing all of that. You don't have to wait to be told.

EasternStandard · Today 09:16

AnonyMumAuDHD · Today 09:13

But they don’t climb on them UNTIL they are inflated, do they? They need to get them AS they are being inflated? And/or before they reach the shore for people to climb on them? Ie they need officers in the water along the shore proactively disabling the boats.

ETA I see from google that there is a taxi boat system to get them out to the boats now, but there must be something that can do to prevent those? They need a large task force to act on this even if just for a few months to break the business model.

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Often they leave the shore before that. Plus as more people are picked up it’s not always safe to join the chaos with a knife or whatever is used to slash it.

On the taxi boat issue they’re now leaving from much further away so the length of coastline is pretty big.

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