To think the RNLI are 100% in the right

[SanFranBear]

I've just seen this story on the BBC news homepage where the RNLI are being accused of acting as a taxi service for migrants trying to enter the UK on small boats from Europe.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8dejyg4l37o

The organisation and volunteers quite rightly have responded to say they make no apologies for saving lives at sea and that their work has no political motivation.

Damn straight - one of the volunteers further down the article explains the profound impact he feels of encountering people struggling in our waters.

It makes me wonder what critics of the service expect them to do - just sail away, leaving the people to die? Pick them up and cross the channel to dump them back 'where they came from'?

What is wrong with them? Where is their compassion? Regardless of your thoughts on immigration, this is so cold and inhuman....

Especially when chucked overboard

I don’t need to read a BBC piece because I know people who have been granted asylum. One young woman came with her mum from Syria when she was 13. She had school girl English. Her mother had none. She had to do all the interviews for them both herself. She did. Not speak highly of ‘British fairness’ in that situation (though happy to be settled and training to be a nurse now, as a young adult).