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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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LBFseBrom · Today 10:42

The police have to be at protests, it's their job, and especially when people come in from outside the area, rent-a-mob. However it seems there was little trouble, six arrested.

AInightingale · Today 10:43

ITMA2000 · Today 10:17

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.

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Why should they be offered any accommodation at all? What right to they have to be here?
We have a full-scale housing crisis regardless of how 'rich' our nation is. Families in hostels. Zero chance of moving up the social housing waiting list. Sky-high private rents. And you wonder why people are bouncing mad?

PassMeTheInternet · Today 10:44

Sammyspurs · Today 06:31

OP are you secretly Danny Tommo?

Yes, I’m simultaneously slashing boats in the Channel and posting on MN. How clever of you to unmask me 🙄

All the women at the demo at Gosport are Danny Tommi too.

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2dogsandabudgie · Today 10:45

LizzieSiddal · Today 10:39

I’m not sure I’ll get an answer to this question but if the Uk was invaded by say Russia or China and our lives were absolutely horrific, wouldn’t you be helping and encouraging your young adult son/daughter to get to a safe country so they could have a better life?

I know, without a doubt I would be!

Can you tell me how the UK is safer than France?

Pange79 · Today 10:46

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.

Completely agree with this - no doubt someone will soon start using the R word if not already. . .

VividZebra · Today 10:46

There is huge misinformation about this event - basically another instance where seaside towns are besieged by armies of fascists, who are being paid by bad people and then cause fear and assault emergency service workers.

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 10:46

2dogsandabudgie · Today 10:45

Can you tell me how the UK is safer than France?

Why not answer the question?

DogAnxiety · Today 10:46

@EveningSpread you are bang on the money but sadly will probably be deleted soon because in the rush to “keep an open mind”, Mumsnet mods’ brains often fall out.

CoventryCity · Today 10:47

EmeraldRoulette · Today 10:38

But humour that you and I might share in the pub, knowing we have common frames of reference…. You can’t just put them out there in front of strangers because you will be misunderstood. It’s know your audience, basically.

my view of all of this is shaped by living near one of the hotels. That’s from 2016. Social media didn’t even mention it in those days. <waves stick>

True true. To be brutally honest, I do like to use it as a sort of litmus test on these threads.

Bitsostuff · Today 10:47

AInightingale · Today 10:43

Why should they be offered any accommodation at all? What right to they have to be here?
We have a full-scale housing crisis regardless of how 'rich' our nation is. Families in hostels. Zero chance of moving up the social housing waiting list. Sky-high private rents. And you wonder why people are bouncing mad?

People are legally entitled to claim asylum. Besides which, how is dumping them on the streets going to make society safer? So we're back to the usual - shoot them or hunger games or what, exactly?

NowSober · Today 10:48

AInightingale · Today 10:43

Why should they be offered any accommodation at all? What right to they have to be here?
We have a full-scale housing crisis regardless of how 'rich' our nation is. Families in hostels. Zero chance of moving up the social housing waiting list. Sky-high private rents. And you wonder why people are bouncing mad?

The UK government has a legal responsibility to provide temporary accommodation to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their claims are processed.

PassMeTheInternet · Today 10:51

Tiredtyre · Today 06:34

Where is the Nazi?

The name calling is pitiful

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WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 10:52

EmeraldRoulette · Today 10:38

But humour that you and I might share in the pub, knowing we have common frames of reference…. You can’t just put them out there in front of strangers because you will be misunderstood. It’s know your audience, basically.

my view of all of this is shaped by living near one of the hotels. That’s from 2016. Social media didn’t even mention it in those days. <waves stick>

Looks like you're wasting your time with that one.
Being deliberately obtuse it seems.

CoventryCity · Today 10:53

PassMeTheInternet · Today 10:44

Yes, I’m simultaneously slashing boats in the Channel and posting on MN. How clever of you to unmask me 🙄

All the women at the demo at Gosport are Danny Tommi too.

I’ve been asked in no particular order
are you tommo? (Who?
are you Nigel?
do u wear black shorts?
are you a pink lady? (Who?)

I’ve been told in no particular order that
i’m a bot
I’m a Russian bot (points for multiculturalism there), and finally the catch all
I'm racist

probably more I’ve forgotten

All of these accusations from the Lovely Kind Lefty folk on MN. I love them so. ❤️

NowSober · Today 10:53

2dogsandabudgie · Today 10:45

Can you tell me how the UK is safer than France?

France is much safer. France has an almost identical population size but 50% more homicides & over double the number of deaths on the road each year.

Spamatemyraisens · Today 10:54

AInightingale · Today 10:43

Why should they be offered any accommodation at all? What right to they have to be here?
We have a full-scale housing crisis regardless of how 'rich' our nation is. Families in hostels. Zero chance of moving up the social housing waiting list. Sky-high private rents. And you wonder why people are bouncing mad?

Where do you propose they go? They legally can't just chuck them on a plane home, it would be worse for society if we just let them roam free so far better to have them housed and be accounted for. It is cheaper to have them in housing than temporary accommodation. Give an alternative, realistic, solution.

2dogsandabudgie · Today 10:54

@DogAnxiety Are you saying that all migrants do not pose a risk to women and girls?

Grooming and Rape - Are you saying that these crimes have never been committed by migrants in the UK?

CoventryCity · Today 10:54

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 10:52

Looks like you're wasting your time with that one.
Being deliberately obtuse it seems.

Ha ha you misunderstand. Don’t let it bother you. That’s ok.

NoisyHiker · Today 10:56

Bitsostuff · Today 10:47

People are legally entitled to claim asylum. Besides which, how is dumping them on the streets going to make society safer? So we're back to the usual - shoot them or hunger games or what, exactly?

They should not be.

The law has not caught up to modern times yet.

Now it is possible for millions of people to travel here and enter illegally, asylum law needs to be changed. These rules were only practical when very few could travel and claim asylum.

No country should be obligated to provide for the rest of the world at the expense of their own people.

CoventryCity · Today 10:56

PassMeTheInternet · Today 10:51

The name calling is pitiful

Oh yes! I haven’t been called a nazi but I’ve seen others being called a nazi. Awful. So insulting to the 6million Jewish people tortured starved experimented on by Nazis. As I said earlier, tells us all we need to know about these people.

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 10:57

@CoventryCity
are you tommo? (Who?

Have you read the thread? He's the one who slashed a boat. Which is kind of what the thread you're on is all about, and police presences.

PassMeTheInternet · Today 10:57

pulpJarvis · Today 07:13

This really. Very few boat crossings this year.

Laughable. A slight decline = very few 🙄

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hypnovic · Today 10:58

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.

Yeah because wearing a balaclava shouting about "boat people" and slashing rescue boats isn't dehumanising at all!! These thugs are not protesters. They are hateful morons

EmeraldRoulette · Today 10:58

Spamatemyraisens · Today 10:54

Where do you propose they go? They legally can't just chuck them on a plane home, it would be worse for society if we just let them roam free so far better to have them housed and be accounted for. It is cheaper to have them in housing than temporary accommodation. Give an alternative, realistic, solution.

Well, there’s a few EU countries still looking at the equivalent of a Rwanda plan

https://www.reuters.com/world/denmark-expects-send-first-migrants-return-hub-outside-eu-2027-2026-09-04/

CoventryCity · Today 10:59

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 10:57

@CoventryCity
are you tommo? (Who?

Have you read the thread? He's the one who slashed a boat. Which is kind of what the thread you're on is all about, and police presences.

I’ve got zero interest in the names of mindless thugs. Unlike many others it seems.

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