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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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WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 10:12

TemperanceWest · Today 10:03

You asked about the live feed from last night that I mentioned. I think you misunderstood. It wasn't from Twitter:

www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/26570976.six-arrests-gosport-migrant-protest-police-probe-small-boat-slashing---live/

Thanks, I did read that last night.
I was meaning more the OP's opening post with just a screenshot and going on about Twitter, and subsequent posts then being like "so and so said on Twitter...."

PassMeTheInternet · Today 10:12

WeAreNumpties · Today 02:56

I am sick of reading and hearing about this shit. People are being radicalised and have started believing absolute bellendery like we are being replaced and we're all going to be sent to fight in Ukraine or the vaccines for covid contained nanobots that are changing our bodies in some nefarious way. This country has been looted by the rich over decades but the middle class and working class are worrying themselves to orgasm about migrants.

I am as white as a lily and keep getting random people (usually tradesmen in their fifties and sixties) trying to persuade me we are being invaded - they usually start off with shite about vaccines but it swiftly moves to immigrants. What they don't realise - until I tell them - is that my family were immigrants in the 1970s and they weren't 'nice white' immigrants either, they were brown immigrants from Asia. They were screamed at and spat at in the street even though they came here legally and were hard-working taxpayers. Racists always find a way to be racist. At the moment they're all pretending it's about illegal immigrants, soon it will be all immigrants, then it will be disabled people, then it will be the women these fuckwits all claim to be 'protecting'. By all means vote for the Leopards Eating Faces Party. Enjoy your faces while you can.

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I don’t think just insulting people has the effect it used to tbh

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Dollymylove · Today 10:12

Nutmuncher · Today 10:01

If these men have wives and children in their original country what happens to them?

Women and children are expendable. Plenty more where they came from. Seems to be plenty of lefty virtue signallers who would welcome them in (like the PP upthread with the tiny house) so lets hope they are true to their word.......wont hold my breath though!!

Lifelover16 · Today 10:12

MarthaBeach · Yesterday 23:11

'Ordinary people' who were (in Portsmouth) all men, dressed in black with black balaclavas. Like something out of a dystopian nightmare. Of course the police have a duty to prevent violent disorder, it's their job.

They could prevent violent disorder by stopping illegal migrants in the first place. People have had enough.

NancyThompson · Today 10:14

@notwhingingjuststatingfacts almost all are allowed to stay, even the UN has expressed concern at the high acceptance rates in the UK, and according to a whistleblower, only about 1% of claims are likely genuine, possibly less.
Hence it really being worth the effort to make the risky crossing.

PassMeTheInternet · Today 10:14

notwhingingjuststatingfacts · Today 03:07

Women are far more at risk from men that they know than foreign men. Always have been.

You need to do pro rata, as you know.

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WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 10:14

CoventryCity · Today 10:11

Ok ok. People can’t handle the truth or humour. I suppose it’s why the comedians are having problems these days. Gervais like Rowling is wealthy enough not to care though, thankfully.

What I mean is I understand what you’re saying @WouldYouLikeAnyToast @EmeraldRoulette . You’re right. It’s a state of affairs that is contrary to everything in which I believe. The truth and humour. Bloody depressing that so many people are quashing both of these things these days.

There's nothing wrong with humour. You're completely missing the point. SAY that it's a joke, add CONTEXT.

CoventryCity · Today 10:16

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 10:14

There's nothing wrong with humour. You're completely missing the point. SAY that it's a joke, add CONTEXT.

No no. I didn’t miss that. I’d just hope it’s not necessary to tell people it’s joke. Kind of ruins it.,Thanks for proving My point..

ITMA2000 · Today 10:17

GiaGia16 · Today 09:59

oh I’m sure the asylum seeker wouldn’t mind a small house. Go for it @SevenYellowHammers

They are offered newbuilds, 3-4 bedroom. There was a protest recently about this (Stoke Heath: Home Office says new homes should not house migrants - BBC News ).
But there is no reason they should be offered sub-standard accommodation- the UK is the 6th wealthiest country in the world.

samthepigeon · Today 10:18

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?

You do know this is a new thing, right?

PassMeTheInternet · Today 10:18

Chickpeacurrywithrice · Today 05:33

I mean if some racist on twitter said that, some faceless keyboard warrior it must be true!

It’s not sure calling people “racist” is really working any more.

Many of the people posting videos on Twitter are named non-anonymous accounts.

But ok, pretend it’s all lies …

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LizzieSiddal · Today 10:18

Violent white Men in balaclavas just wanting a fight. Most of them, when arrested already have form for DV. They’d all be football hooligans if it was still a thing.

And they remind me of that environmental group who kept closing roads and stopping ambulances, not many people supported them and the same goes for these violent thugs.

2dogsandabudgie · Today 10:18

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.

Posts like yours are meaningless. It's easy to say stuff and come across as virtuous.

samthepigeon · Today 10:19

moonraker0 · Today 08:37

We are not blind, there’s hardly any women and children ever on the boats.

No one wants to see anyone drown, the point is they are safe in France so they put themselves at risk needlessly to come to the country of government handouts.

I wonder if we don't see the boats with women and children because it doesn't fit the narrative? Just a thought.

listitorchuckit · Today 10:19

SevenYellowHammers · Today 10:04

Climate migration is going to be horrific. They aren’t just going to be desperate, they’re going to be angry with us. A multi pronged approach of tackling CC, global mitigation of CC, and getting procedures in place to receive and relocate large numbers of people in place.

Angry with us, more than they'd be angry with China, USA and India ?

Frequently Asked Questions
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By total annual emissions the UK now accounts for roughly between 1 percent and 1.5 percent of the world total. China produces more than twenty times the UK’s output, the United States about ten times more, and India roughly five times more.

The UK can do so little, and we're already fudging our numbers by outsourcing anyway.

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 10:19

CoventryCity · Today 10:16

No no. I didn’t miss that. I’d just hope it’s not necessary to tell people it’s joke. Kind of ruins it.,Thanks for proving My point..

Surely you're not daft enough to know that the written word doesn't always convey tone, that visual jokes don't always transfer if you haven't seen the original sketch and are going off the words you're seeing written in front of you?!
Not everyone's seen the same programmes or videos as you.
Honest to God, why am I having to point this out lol

Coatsoff42 · Today 10:20

So much money and police time spent on this. Spend the money solving the problem and the police time on crimes that are going unsolved for everyone. It’s being weaponised by unscrupulous people for their own ends.

cornflakecrunchie · Today 10:20

I'm so angry about it that I can't even comment.

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 10:22

samthepigeon · Today 10:19

I wonder if we don't see the boats with women and children because it doesn't fit the narrative? Just a thought.

Then when you do see news reports on FB about a child drowning (I did a while back, I'll try and find it)
you'll get loads of arseholes laugh reacting under it as they don't believe it happened or are glad (one less) type comment. They're sick, radicalised fuck ups.

PassMeTheInternet · Today 10:22

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?

Oh we’re at the “if you expect our government to stop boat loads of illegal immigrants arriving on our shores you must want them torpedoed” point of the thread, are we?

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GiaGia16 · Today 10:22

samthepigeon · Today 10:19

I wonder if we don't see the boats with women and children because it doesn't fit the narrative? Just a thought.

Errr no it’s because when we see photos of the migrants either in the sea or embarking at Dover or wherever they are invariably men.

samthepigeon · Today 10:23

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.

Just under 30% are women and children. The theory is that the men come first, as it is so dangerous. If they are granted asylum, then they can bring their wives and children.

DogAnxiety · Today 10:23

My main question is, who is funding the dodgy algorithm social media content/ pipeline?

I have two theories and they both involve dirty money from overseas, shored up by a few misguided intellectually vilulnerable, low social and economic capital saps donating to Stephen Yaxley Lennon’s/ Jenna Lennon’s and “Danny Tommo”‘s ongoing grifts.

There is also a disturbing group of handmaidens/ captives who apparently like “strong men” who “stand up for are woman and girls” …

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 10:23

PassMeTheInternet · Today 10:22

Oh we’re at the “if you expect our government to stop boat loads of illegal immigrants arriving on our shores you must want them torpedoed” point of the thread, are we?

Why not answer the question?.What is the solution to stopping them completely?
Maybe you're thinking build a wall in the middle of the channel?.

samthepigeon · Today 10:24

MaturingCheeseball · Today 09:40

So, how many boats of people should be welcomed? What if 20 boats arrive a day? A ferry is commandeered?

We cannot accommodate or finance hundreds of thousands of men - most of whom are not only low-skilled, but have poor English. Not to mention that we have absolutely no idea if they are criminals.

Another point is that are we expecting these men to live like monks? There are insufficient women here who might fancy any of them, to be blunt. The next problem I foresee is trafficked women (or girls) for prostitution.

The numbers are still tiny in proportion to the UK population, so I think that may be a bit of an overreaction.