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Stopping the boats is easy...

460 replies

titbumwillypoo · 22/08/2026 15:47

All we have to do is abandon the ECHR, the Refugee Convention, the UN, the G7, NATO and the WTO. Then we can break maritime law and start sinking the boats. Obviously we'd have to proscribe the RNLI and change the job description of the coast guard to encourage people who want to sink boats to sign up. The fishermen will be fine.
Once we start with this deterrent we can start kicking out other undesirables. I'd start with the students. Coming over here using our universities as a gateway to benefits street. So we ban them, no more student visas. We might see a few universities close but no great loss, you learn more in the school of life.
After that take away access to ALL benefits for anyone not born here. Don't care if you've always worked and paid your taxes you're not ENGERLISH so less Dr Khalid more Dr Callum.
Obviously once we start making Britain Great again there may be a couple of teensy issues. Food might cost a lot more because the lefty EU might not want to trade with a nation that wants to isolate itself and kill innocent people. It'll be fine because there will be 100% employment because instead of benefits you'll have to do your 60 hours on the food farm to earn your pound credits.
Family will be legally obliged to look after any living relative as there won't be anyone left to do it because we deported them all. And obviously the NHS was full of loony lefties who went round caring for people instead of focusing on what really mattered, which is profit.
They're just a couple of the benefits of stopping the boats, because who cares about the bigger picture or unintended consequences eh?
Giving up our place on the world stage is a small price to pay for stopping a handful of people coming from countries we benefited from or bombed isn't it?

OP posts:
EasternStandard · Yesterday 09:41

As for suggestions again, use humanitarian visas and stop arrivals.

Checks and control then.

Brazillas · Yesterday 09:51

poetryandwine · Yesterday 09:37

The problem is that we need a way to separate the wheat from the chaff whilst adhering to our UN obligations. What do you, what does anyone, suggest?

Some who are extolling the Australian system may have forgotten that the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against the plan offshoring to Rwanda in 2023. HMG had failed to interest a more humane government in doing this dirty work.

Leave the UN and international obligations

MaturingCheeseball · Yesterday 09:54

I posted this on other thread:

This disgusting individual was turned down for asylum in France. Who - who - let him stay in Britain and allowed a known schizophrenic with convictions to be wandering the country?

Stopping the boats is easy...
poetryandwine · Yesterday 10:07

Brazillas · Yesterday 09:51

Leave the UN and international obligations

And become Russia’s pawn in a matter of decades.

poetryandwine · Yesterday 10:09

EasternStandard · Yesterday 09:41

As for suggestions again, use humanitarian visas and stop arrivals.

Checks and control then.

Who has spoken against checks and controls? You need a viable implementation plan.

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 10:12

DooDallyHallie · 22/08/2026 16:51

We can draft our own laws aligning with our own values.

That's all well and good until /if we ever are unlucky to get a leader of Hitler's ilk into power again.
You do realise that the ECHR was created after WW2 to have some protection against war atrocities and rogue leaders?! You'd seriously want us to leave all that and leave yourself completely open to misuse if it ever went tits up again (for want of a better expression?!)
The mind boggles, it really does.

Brazillas · Yesterday 10:18

poetryandwine · Yesterday 10:07

And become Russia’s pawn in a matter of decades.

How?

NancyThompson · Yesterday 10:19

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 10:12

That's all well and good until /if we ever are unlucky to get a leader of Hitler's ilk into power again.
You do realise that the ECHR was created after WW2 to have some protection against war atrocities and rogue leaders?! You'd seriously want us to leave all that and leave yourself completely open to misuse if it ever went tits up again (for want of a better expression?!)
The mind boggles, it really does.

Do you think Hitler would have been stopped by something like the ECHR? He managed perfectly adeptly to halt democracy in Germany.

Brazillas · Yesterday 10:22

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 10:12

That's all well and good until /if we ever are unlucky to get a leader of Hitler's ilk into power again.
You do realise that the ECHR was created after WW2 to have some protection against war atrocities and rogue leaders?! You'd seriously want us to leave all that and leave yourself completely open to misuse if it ever went tits up again (for want of a better expression?!)
The mind boggles, it really does.

If we did. What's to stop them just leaving the ECHR and passing domestic legislation on their own. There are good things in the ECHR, but I don't want it being used to open the floodgates or stop deportations.

EasternStandard · Yesterday 10:22

poetryandwine · Yesterday 10:09

Who has spoken against checks and controls? You need a viable implementation plan.

You can’t do that obviously with the current system. See Australia.

EasternStandard · Yesterday 10:24

poetryandwine · Yesterday 10:07

And become Russia’s pawn in a matter of decades.

Why? You’re stuck because you keep asking for plans but can’t face up to the failing current system.

MaturingCheeseball · Yesterday 10:32

poetryandwine · Yesterday 10:07

And become Russia’s pawn in a matter of decades.

I’d rather be stuck down a salt mine/be issued with the Party’s approved winter coat/ live in allocated housing than be a sitting duck as 30 million ill-educated men from third-world countries invade us. I’d rather be singing The Red Flag than be deafened by the call to prayer. In the future I’d rather dd were tilling the fields or queuing for a loaf than trudging along in a burqa.

EasternStandard · Yesterday 10:37

We’re a bunch of women in the UK who can reshape asylum / international laws to work for women here instead, why not?

Make it work for us. Not this straining, dangerous version which is mad for nearly all.

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 10:46

MaturingCheeseball · Yesterday 10:32

I’d rather be stuck down a salt mine/be issued with the Party’s approved winter coat/ live in allocated housing than be a sitting duck as 30 million ill-educated men from third-world countries invade us. I’d rather be singing The Red Flag than be deafened by the call to prayer. In the future I’d rather dd were tilling the fields or queuing for a loaf than trudging along in a burqa.

30 million?! Are you just plucking random figures out of thin air or do you have a source for that?
Church bells aren't suddenly going to be eradicated either, we'll still hear them (love hearing them) and if there are some mosques - so what.

poetryandwine · Yesterday 10:51

EasternStandard · Yesterday 10:24

Why? You’re stuck because you keep asking for plans but can’t face up to the failing current system.

Nonsense. I fully agree the current system is a failure. The difference between is that my priority is the genuine asylum seekers whom it is failing. I agree that phoney asylum seekers are also a problem. The acute spanner in the works is the backlog.

Others have different priorities, but we agree there is a big problem.

Several ‘changes’ have been righteously suggested by PP ignorant of the fact that Labour have already implemented them.

Others would isolate us yet further internationally at a time when our relations with Russia are at a historic low. How many PP are aware that Putin has withdrawn his ambassador and threatened to bomb British factories? We need to maintain strong international ties. Breaking UN treaties, withdrawing from the ECHR and even withdrawing from NATO per PP’s suggestion is not the way to go.

Offshoring remains popular with those who seem to have forgotten that Supreme Court decision I cited above, a mere three years ago. I am sure Reform appreciate the short memories.

So, staying within the boundaries established by the Supreme Court, I ask again for a viable plan. Obviously Parliament can pass laws but we may assume leaders of all parties, who have a better understanding of the political calculus than we do, know this also.

poetryandwine · Yesterday 10:52

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 10:46

30 million?! Are you just plucking random figures out of thin air or do you have a source for that?
Church bells aren't suddenly going to be eradicated either, we'll still hear them (love hearing them) and if there are some mosques - so what.

Obviously she is beyond reason.

EasternStandard · Yesterday 10:54

poetryandwine · Yesterday 10:51

Nonsense. I fully agree the current system is a failure. The difference between is that my priority is the genuine asylum seekers whom it is failing. I agree that phoney asylum seekers are also a problem. The acute spanner in the works is the backlog.

Others have different priorities, but we agree there is a big problem.

Several ‘changes’ have been righteously suggested by PP ignorant of the fact that Labour have already implemented them.

Others would isolate us yet further internationally at a time when our relations with Russia are at a historic low. How many PP are aware that Putin has withdrawn his ambassador and threatened to bomb British factories? We need to maintain strong international ties. Breaking UN treaties, withdrawing from the ECHR and even withdrawing from NATO per PP’s suggestion is not the way to go.

Offshoring remains popular with those who seem to have forgotten that Supreme Court decision I cited above, a mere three years ago. I am sure Reform appreciate the short memories.

So, staying within the boundaries established by the Supreme Court, I ask again for a viable plan. Obviously Parliament can pass laws but we may assume leaders of all parties, who have a better understanding of the political calculus than we do, know this also.

Before the rest, why aren’t the victims here also a priority?

They are usually women and girls, do they not feature at all?

poetryandwine · Yesterday 11:18

EasternStandard · Yesterday 10:54

Before the rest, why aren’t the victims here also a priority?

They are usually women and girls, do they not feature at all?

Of course they are also a priority. Every ruined life counts equally. Every dead child counts equally. Every dead woman counts equally.

You’ve been banging on about Australia, others about Denmark. We do almost everything the Danes do, with the exception if offshoring and the PR campaign.

The offshoring aspect of the Australian system similarly appears to be off the table. Restricting asylum applications to those on a humanitarian pathway appears to many legal experts to contravene the UN Convention on Human Rights. The UN and major human rights groups are fighting Australia.

Britain needs all the friends it can get right now, as Putin is ramping up.

Politicians and civil servants haven’t been losing their hair and their sleep over this for lack of knowledge about Denmark and Australia.

Yes, I want viable ideas from the critics.

EasternStandard · Yesterday 11:21

poetryandwine · Yesterday 11:18

Of course they are also a priority. Every ruined life counts equally. Every dead child counts equally. Every dead woman counts equally.

You’ve been banging on about Australia, others about Denmark. We do almost everything the Danes do, with the exception if offshoring and the PR campaign.

The offshoring aspect of the Australian system similarly appears to be off the table. Restricting asylum applications to those on a humanitarian pathway appears to many legal experts to contravene the UN Convention on Human Rights. The UN and major human rights groups are fighting Australia.

Britain needs all the friends it can get right now, as Putin is ramping up.

Politicians and civil servants haven’t been losing their hair and their sleep over this for lack of knowledge about Denmark and Australia.

Yes, I want viable ideas from the critics.

You’re banging on about your own stuff.

If you don’t want replies, don’t ask.

EasternStandard · Yesterday 11:22

On what will happen in Australia that’s incorrect too. It’s going the other way, all parties are going to crack down on temporary visas as a route to asylum.

Brazillas · Yesterday 11:22

We can just leave the refugee convention. We can't go on with this. Detain and deport.

Brazillas · Yesterday 11:23

We don't need to take anyone in we don't want to

EasternStandard · Yesterday 11:25

It’s nonsense it can’t change.

MaturingCheeseball · Yesterday 11:55

WouldYouLikeAnyToast · Yesterday 10:46

30 million?! Are you just plucking random figures out of thin air or do you have a source for that?
Church bells aren't suddenly going to be eradicated either, we'll still hear them (love hearing them) and if there are some mosques - so what.

According to an international Gallup poll, 900 million people wish to emigrate from parts of the world, mostly to US and Canada, but 25-30 million state the UK as their preferred destination.

if every single one of those cites “asylum” as their reason for arriving here, is that still a “nothing can be done” because of “international laws”?

poetryandwine · Yesterday 12:45

EasternStandard · Yesterday 11:21

You’re banging on about your own stuff.

If you don’t want replies, don’t ask.

I have requested implementable solutions. You haven’t explained how to make your ideas, you know, work.