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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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Greenandyellowday · Yesterday 23:40

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.

"Ordinary citizens" being men dressed in black with black balaclavas, yes?

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 23:41

TemperanceWest · Yesterday 23:34

This is a useful source of information about exactly what has gone on tonight:

www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/26570976.police-stand-operation-migrant-boat-leaves-area---live/

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Thank you for this.
They actually make me feel sick to the stomach. The protesters that is, not the migrants.
Who the actual FUCK slashes a boat/dinghy with people on it?!
That's attempted murder.
Then people are defending this.
That "dehumanising" doesn't happen. Whatever. 🙄

Also "let them drown!"
Sick.

You're radicalised.

Persephonia1966 · Yesterday 23:41

bluespotsandztarz · Yesterday 23:37

is this true? This is insanity - why do they get this level or protection? I don’t agree with the balaclava meat heads that hand about the coast line waiting for them, but motorcades when the policing in this country is a joke. Are they offering the people of Piddington the same level of police support?

The OP themselves said later on the escort was for coaches that were meant to carry migrants (but since the migrants weren't actually arriving at Gosport in the end if this is true those coaches would be empty). Therefore, rightly or wrongly the only people being protected by the escort would be the people driving the coaches.

So no, in a word, it's not true. The only people being protected were coach drivers. I am fine with that though TBH I am fine with anyone that needs protection getting it. I just don't understand why anyone would resent drivers who presumably pay tax and are citizens being protected. Or try to misrepresent it as immigrants being protected despite apparently knowing there were no immigrants there.... 🤔

TemperanceWest · Yesterday 23:42

JenniferBooth · Yesterday 23:40

Who is this Danny Tommo twat

A committed Christian doing Christ's work, according to him.

A convicted criminal to the rest of us (apart from his "patriots").

PassMeTheInternet · Yesterday 23:43

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 23:30

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

Ok, you can't just come out with stuff like that without a source and be expected to be taken seriously.
Source, please?

At the protest at Portsmouth the other week, people were filming what the RNLI and other organisations had ready for the “asylum seekers” in tents set up to welcome them, which included packs of clothes with comfy pyjamas.

You can find the videos on Twitter.

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EmeraldRoulette · Yesterday 23:43

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 23:41

Thank you for this.
They actually make me feel sick to the stomach. The protesters that is, not the migrants.
Who the actual FUCK slashes a boat/dinghy with people on it?!
That's attempted murder.
Then people are defending this.
That "dehumanising" doesn't happen. Whatever. 🙄

Also "let them drown!"
Sick.

You're radicalised.

He didn’t slash a dinghy with migrants on it

He was approaching it and someone jumped onto it as he was approaching but I’m not clear who it was. From the background talk, it sounds like everyone had disembarked and then he slashed it.

It’s a bugger because now all the talk will be about him.

dustabsorber · Yesterday 23:43

Labour sees them as votes to keep them in power. They will be moved to areas where their votes could swing a future election.

Pineneedlesincarpet · Yesterday 23:44

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 23:41

Thank you for this.
They actually make me feel sick to the stomach. The protesters that is, not the migrants.
Who the actual FUCK slashes a boat/dinghy with people on it?!
That's attempted murder.
Then people are defending this.
That "dehumanising" doesn't happen. Whatever. 🙄

Also "let them drown!"
Sick.

You're radicalised.

Hideous. But when the state has lost control (which they have. As they can't stop the illegal immigrants) then society at large starts breaking down.

JenniferBooth · Yesterday 23:45

TemperanceWest · Yesterday 23:42

A committed Christian doing Christ's work, according to him.

A convicted criminal to the rest of us (apart from his "patriots").

Ah so hes one of those interpreting the Bible to suit his own agenda What a surprise

TemperanceWest · Yesterday 23:45

EmeraldRoulette · Yesterday 23:43

He didn’t slash a dinghy with migrants on it

He was approaching it and someone jumped onto it as he was approaching but I’m not clear who it was. From the background talk, it sounds like everyone had disembarked and then he slashed it.

It’s a bugger because now all the talk will be about him.

I saw the video and there was someone in the dinghy when he was slashing it. He was acting like an absolute madman, screaming and shouting.

PassMeTheInternet · Yesterday 23:46

FindingMeno · Yesterday 23:34

Wtf has happened to our country?
Would we rather children drown? Do we think its OK to threaten people in the RNLI?
It's disgusting.

People do drown on these crossings though, don’t they? And women seem to mysteriously have simultaneous fatal heart attacks or get burnt. And people take tiny children and babies on these boats. Do you think all this is okay?

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TheSmallAssassin · Yesterday 23:46

This thread reads like a circle jerk Biscuit

Pineneedlesincarpet · Yesterday 23:46

PassMeTheInternet · Yesterday 23:43

At the protest at Portsmouth the other week, people were filming what the RNLI and other organisations had ready for the “asylum seekers” in tents set up to welcome them, which included packs of clothes with comfy pyjamas.

You can find the videos on Twitter.

If this is true then it's seriously concerning. The RNLI are an amazing organisation. Ive always donated. They need to do everything they can to stay out of this otherwise we will all suffer around the coast of this country.

Nutterly · Yesterday 23:47

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.

This is absolutely disgusting.

EmeraldRoulette · Yesterday 23:47

TemperanceWest · Yesterday 23:45

I saw the video and there was someone in the dinghy when he was slashing it. He was acting like an absolute madman, screaming and shouting.

I thought he was shouting to be heard on the video

They’re quite a few videos, but the one I saw, someone leapt onto it as he was approaching. I presume that’s to ensure that he gets charged with endangering life or something - he should’ve stopped as soon as they did that

He’s played right into their hands, I always thought he was a bloody Muppet

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Persephonia1966 · Yesterday 23:47

EmeraldRoulette · Yesterday 23:39

@Persephonia1966 so you think it takes 11 police and emergency vehicles and several motorcycle outriders to protect the coach drivers driving on an A road?

I don’t pretend to know what’s going on. I will say I’ve only seen that kind of presence for Royal or presidential visits in London.

that was the number I counted in the videos I saw anyway. I’ve honestly not seen anything like this before.

I have no idea.
I don't have a problem with them receiving protection,I don't know how they calculate the amount of police cars needed per motorcade
It isn't calculated as a status thing though. So whether the drivers of empty coaches get more or less blue lights than the PM etc is neither here nor there...

Why did you say it was to protect migrants when you later said it was about (empty) coaches and then say you don't know what's going on?

DaisyDooley · Yesterday 23:48

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.

Sounds like a ‘free free Palestine’ march in London. One of the 100s where death threats are screamed by ‘ordinary people’ in black face coverings.
Dystopian nightmare indeed.
When did the police stop those?

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 23:48

Crowds of masked protesters are now confronting a police line to chants of “let them drown” sung by a child over a megaphone

That poor child. As if you'd take your kid to somewhere like that and have them involved.

EmeraldRoulette · Yesterday 23:49

No point posting this old story

Posters here will just find a reason to blame protesters, even though they weren’t there at the time that this happened. And yes, it happens a lot, funny that

I’m going to bed before I find myself getting even more stroppy about things I can’t control.

PassMeTheInternet · Yesterday 23:49

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 23:36

The people I talk to who want to stop the small boats don’t use dehumanising language, no

Ok, fair enough if you or nobody else you know does.
You're either lying or never read any comments anywhere, don't use FB, Twitter, social media in general or read newspapers either if you don't think anyone else uses dehumanising language towards migrants. The type of person that you're defending. Not all of them, no. A lot will though.

I’m really confused why people are lecturing me about dehumanising language because I objected to dehumanising language.

Why defend it?

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Northernrunnerwife · Yesterday 23:51

The amount of disinformation and stupidity on here is something to behold. Please don’t feed the bots, people.

If there’s any truth, it’s as simple as “police photographed doing some policing of protests and ensuring public safety.” Pretty uncontroversial, I’d say.

Pineneedlesincarpet · Yesterday 23:51

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I think most people realise this now. I don't know what is going to happen.

PassMeTheInternet · Yesterday 23:51

Persephonia1966 · Yesterday 23:34

You also said that the escort was to protect migrants and then said it was to protect the coaches that were going to be used to transport migrants but now weren't. So the only people being protected were the drivers of said coaches. Presumably hard working British citizens. Explain why that's bad....

I would prefer that our government and state organisations weren’t facilitating and encouraging mass illegal immigration.

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