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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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2dogsandabudgie · Today 13:14

Babyboomtastic · Today 12:58

Maybe it's what we deserve for acting like we owned the world. Our past actions are not without consequence, and those hens are coming home to roost.

I don't personally think we are 'full' (and I live near the south coast). Some parts of the UK are some parts are incredibly sparsely populated. Maybe we need to share asylum seekers around the UK more fairly.

So you think my children and your children deserve to live in an over populated country due to actions in the past that had nothing to do with them. My grandchildren?

Not all of the UK can be built on. It's not as easy as just saying build more houses, you have to build more roads, hospitals, schools, GP surgeries etc which has an impact on wildlife and the eco system as well as putting more strain on water usage. So at what number would you say we are 'full'.

GiaGia16 · Today 13:15

Mouldemort · Today 13:06

1% of the population are refugees, and the total coming in is decreasing. It ballooned under the Tories. Aren't you happy that asylum claims and net migration is lower?

You are very full of statistics, where are you getting them from?
The total coming in is decreasing currently yes - some might argue due to less being able to enter Europe in the first place rather than anything Labour are doing. However I’m sure Labour are capitalising on it.

RemakeRemodel · Today 13:17

Clavinova · Today 12:58

Small boats arrivals became a thing in the last 10 years directly because of Brexit and leaving the Dublin Regulation

Not according to Shabana Mahmood earlier this year - giving evidence to the Home Affairs Committee -

‘But is Brexit responsible for the boats? I don't think that's true.'
‘the idea that this has happened because we've lost the access to Dublin and the returns agreement with the EU, I think that's too much of a stretch’.

Over 10,000 people came by small boat before we left the Dublin Regulation.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10590/
This is from 3 weeks ago. Not sure where your data on the 10,000 was - I guess you mean 2018-2021? Either way, it's exploded in the last 10 years and Brexit is a massive factor.

FirmSnake · Today 13:17

ElephantHabits · Today 13:00

Okay granted but like they literally never get sent back, processing takes too long etc. I say just put them on a plane and send them back. There has to be a way because it's not sustainable.

Put them on which plane going to where? See, you need the processing.

moonraker0 · Today 13:19

Mouldemort · Today 12:31

We have a duty to take in asylum seekers. They are fleeing war-torn lands, and the vast majority of displaced people end up in adjacent countries. However they get here, they are entitled under international law to claim asylum. About 66% of the succeed, the rest are deported. Asylum seekers are a very small proportion of immigrants - so stop conflating all immigrants with refugees.

The number of asylum seekers has decreased under Labour, and we are 16th in Europe per capita in taking in refugees. Refugees make up less than 1% of the UK population.

Immigration from non-EU countries has declined immensely because of Labour's new visa requirements, after ballooning under the Tories. Immigrants have no recourse to public funds. It's tough to meet the requirement to get a visa.

The UK relies on immigration to run the NHS, do care work, and immigrants as a group are net tax contributors. They tend to be younger, very hard working and ambitious and are no more likely to commit crime than anyone else. We need them to pay tax to fund pensioners.

The only problematic culture in the UK are the racist arseholes burning down houses, blocking ports, committing DV and attacking rescue boats with knives. It's time the government cracked down on these thuggish morons, and stop giving this issue salience.

Why do we have a duty? Why don’t they stay in the safe place they cross over from? They supposedly want safety and they have it before they enter the English Channel, why risk their lives and the lives of the people who have to save them?

ITMA2000 · Today 13:20

NowSober · Today 10:53

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.

Do you mean less safe?

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 13:21

BG2015 · Today 13:08

There were lots of ambulances, coaches and police. All ready to go. How?

What if someone desperately needed an ambulance for a life threatening illness.

Im just totally stumped at what is going on. I can't ever remember voting for this.

What do you mean, how? Have you never attended any city centres, or a festival, or a concert, any well attended public in general, or anything like that to not understand that ambulances can be parked up in case they're needed?

justasking111 · Today 13:22

notwhingingjuststatingfacts · Today 13:05

Less than 2% of the RNLIs missions are to do with the small boats!!!
They are not some taxi service for the boat people. Far from it.
If they turned their beacons off it was because of the toxic behaviour of the thugs that keep turning out and threatening their staff.

By the way the RNLI isn’t government funded. Its funding comes from donations and selling its own merchandise. So the tax payer is not funding it.

No i agree that the tax payer has never funded it. Sailors like our family and many along our Welsh coastline have for many decades. We've allocated money in our wills for future generations. No more we're shouting. Go back to our solicitors strike the RNLI from our wills. The RNLI have lost their way. I've turned to our local hospice adult and child and put a % of my money there.

FirmSnake · Today 13:22

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 13:21

What do you mean, how? Have you never attended any city centres, or a festival, or a concert, any well attended public in general, or anything like that to not understand that ambulances can be parked up in case they're needed?

Don't be so silly. They obviously diverted ambulances away from dying white grannies on purpose.
Or some nonsense like that...

SoBoredOfSelfDoubtHowToGetOut · Today 13:23

justasking111 · Today 13:22

No i agree that the tax payer has never funded it. Sailors like our family and many along our Welsh coastline have for many decades. We've allocated money in our wills for future generations. No more we're shouting. Go back to our solicitors strike the RNLI from our wills. The RNLI have lost their way. I've turned to our local hospice adult and child and put a % of my money there.

Stupid is as stupid does.

EarthlyNightshade · Today 13:25

PassMeTheInternet · Today 00:36

I want them to stop ferrying illegal immigratant on to our shores. They are more than outweighing any good they do.

What a thoroughly depressing thought that people are actually happy to share views like this.

Thankfully, despite the posturing on this thread, these views are very much a minority

Dappy777 · Today 13:26

Gtfto2024 · Today 12:11

Where do you think the fascist rhetoric started?
Have you looked at the Nuremburg laws, could be a good place to start.

A fascist is intolerant, dictatorial, controlling and hate-filled. Sounds like a perfect description of the liberal-left to me. They have used mass immigration to IMPOSE a new, multicultural identity on Europe. No one asked for it and no one voted for it.

Immigration has transformed this country. I no longer live in a nation with a shared history or shared culture or shared identity. Humans need roots. We're a tribal animal, and that's just the way it is. But I have had MY tribal identity taken away from me. And I'm expected to f-ing celebrate it!!! Not only has it been taken away, it has been ridiculed and trashed. The message is loud and clear – "your national heroes, from Churchill to Scott of the Antarctic, are evil, your history is shameful, and your national writers are a relic of an old, colonial Britain that needs to be binned. You now have a new culture and a new identity and you WILL embrace it – or else."

AgathaDanbury · Today 13:26

justasking111 · Today 13:22

No i agree that the tax payer has never funded it. Sailors like our family and many along our Welsh coastline have for many decades. We've allocated money in our wills for future generations. No more we're shouting. Go back to our solicitors strike the RNLI from our wills. The RNLI have lost their way. I've turned to our local hospice adult and child and put a % of my money there.

RNLI donations have increased substantially over the last month.

smooththecat · Today 13:29

Dappy777 · Today 12:01

The real fascists are the left. They have used mass immigration to IMPOSE a new identity on this country. No one voted for multiculturalism.

The left like to think of themselves as the kind, compassionate people. In reality, they are every bit as hate-filled as the so-called 'faaaar-right'. But their hatred is directed towards middle-class 'NIMBYs' who read the Daily Telegraph and live in small villages. They know that mass immigration destroys people's identity. They also know that those middle-class NIMBYs will have their villages ruined by the endless development required to house the immigrants. AND THAT'S WHY THEY SUPPORT MASS IMMIGRATION. It delights the left to see middle-class Mail-readers suffer. Andrew Neather, a speechwriter for Blair, said their plan was "to rub the right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date." Spoken like a true, hate-filled fascist.

Those people in Piddington have no idea how much the left hate them. They have no idea how much pleasure it gives the left to see their lives ruined.

You remind me of the woman at the end of this clip. Particularly the caps lock shouting.

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AgathaDanbury · Today 13:29

Dappy777 · Today 13:26

A fascist is intolerant, dictatorial, controlling and hate-filled. Sounds like a perfect description of the liberal-left to me. They have used mass immigration to IMPOSE a new, multicultural identity on Europe. No one asked for it and no one voted for it.

Immigration has transformed this country. I no longer live in a nation with a shared history or shared culture or shared identity. Humans need roots. We're a tribal animal, and that's just the way it is. But I have had MY tribal identity taken away from me. And I'm expected to f-ing celebrate it!!! Not only has it been taken away, it has been ridiculed and trashed. The message is loud and clear – "your national heroes, from Churchill to Scott of the Antarctic, are evil, your history is shameful, and your national writers are a relic of an old, colonial Britain that needs to be binned. You now have a new culture and a new identity and you WILL embrace it – or else."

Immigration has transformed this country. I no longer live in a nation with a shared history or shared culture or shared identity.

Oh dear. I do.

justasking111 · Today 13:30

SoBoredOfSelfDoubtHowToGetOut · Today 13:23

Stupid is as stupid does.

Lol I've worked for two charities, a hospice group and a military charity.

@SoBoredOfSelfDoubtHowToGetOut trust me that the RNLI aren't paying you enough to come on here. Go lobby/hustle at Westminster, blue chip companies, rowntree trust, Google Gemini, gates foundation and impress them so much that they poach you from the charity 👍

AgathaDanbury · Today 13:31

EarthlyNightshade · Today 13:25

What a thoroughly depressing thought that people are actually happy to share views like this.

Thankfully, despite the posturing on this thread, these views are very much a minority

It is certainly depressing that people aren't better at maths.

SoBoredOfSelfDoubtHowToGetOut · Today 13:33

justasking111 · Today 13:30

Lol I've worked for two charities, a hospice group and a military charity.

@SoBoredOfSelfDoubtHowToGetOut trust me that the RNLI aren't paying you enough to come on here. Go lobby/hustle at Westminster, blue chip companies, rowntree trust, Google Gemini, gates foundation and impress them so much that they poach you from the charity 👍

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weetumshie · Today 13:36

Tbh I’ll take young migrant men over balaclava clad British men, who are getting their rocks off by terrorising the RNLI, slashing boats and claiming to ‘protect women and children’ while the majority have convictions for domestic abuse. Asylum seekers are not allowed to work- these scummy ‘patriots’ could work, but clearly don’t, as too busy running round the country stirring up hatred against people. ‘Proud Brit’s’ who hate everything decent about the country, who have had the advantage of free education but who are stupid enough to think their problems are the fault of migrants, rather than their own criminal, uneducated, and abusive life choices.

Neddevine · Today 13:40

justasking111 · Today 13:22

No i agree that the tax payer has never funded it. Sailors like our family and many along our Welsh coastline have for many decades. We've allocated money in our wills for future generations. No more we're shouting. Go back to our solicitors strike the RNLI from our wills. The RNLI have lost their way. I've turned to our local hospice adult and child and put a % of my money there.

Hopefully none of your family/friends will ever be in need of the RNLI. Obviously you would decline their help, if so.

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 13:43

smooththecat · Today 13:29

You remind me of the woman at the end of this clip. Particularly the caps lock shouting.

I love Father Ted 😁
Some of these commenters are definitely smacking themselves about their nethers with their handbags as they shout 😂

justasking111 · Today 13:45

Neddevine · Today 13:40

Hopefully none of your family/friends will ever be in need of the RNLI. Obviously you would decline their help, if so.

We've done our fair share of rescuing, towing in souls who've got into trouble right to their moorings and transported them ashore, organised aid a bed for the night. You do know it's not just the RNLI who care for others. That's what channel 16 is for.

whoopsnomore · Today 13:45

110APiccadilly · Today 07:00

I didn't know those were the signs of a Nazi. I thought it was about things like considering Jews racially inferior and wanting women in purely domestic roles. Silly me.

And the language and rhetoric used to construct the idea of Jews being "racially inferior" is echoed so closely by the way migrants have been demonised - same tactics of manipulation.

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 13:46

Neddevine · Today 13:40

Hopefully none of your family/friends will ever be in need of the RNLI. Obviously you would decline their help, if so.

Yes, it's like cutting off your nose to spite your face just to "get one up" on the "boat people."
When they could be in danger at sea one day and the very RLNI they are saying they are boycotting/stopping donations would maybe be no more - so we're all in danger.
They seriously don't stop and think.

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Today 13:47

whoopsnomore · Today 13:45

And the language and rhetoric used to construct the idea of Jews being "racially inferior" is echoed so closely by the way migrants have been demonised - same tactics of manipulation.

Exactly