Stopping the boats is easy...

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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?

I was talking to OP.

Go for it, nobody is stopping you.

So, by your logic, @Constantinoodle , every person from every country Britain has ever been involved with has a right to come to Britain. Is that correct? I presume you are anti-establishmentarian with no stake in the future.

I saw a Refugees Welcome older woman interviewed who when questioned about the volume that should be accommodated, merely replied that she would be dead so did not care what happened to Britain.

Why do you assume I’m not from the UK?

Using your in that context looks like that.

Follow up to @MaturingCheeseballquestion. How many people should be welcomed to the UK? Any limit to that?

Happy to wait 24 hrs

My logic is that if British people are so concerned about the number of refugees coming to the UK they need to lobby their government to stop it from involving itself in the business of every other country, and destroying other cultures and countries in the pursuit of oil, minerals and other natural resources. It’s quite simple. You can’t benefit from war without facing the eventual consequences.

Do as you like. Try again on another thread without the off remarks and I’ll see how I feel.

Because I’m not blindly nationalistic?

And nope, no limits. Not until the UK spends at least a couple of generations leaving everyone else alone. No bombs, no allowing “allies” to use bases to bomb, no arms races, no threats to sovereign nations etc.

And how much personally are you willing to give? Would you put people up in your house?

Ah, “no limits”. Well then, there we have it.

With Russia threatening last week to bomb British factories, do you think this is a priority for our Forces?

I have and would again. I thought the UK was a predominantly Christian country? Isn’t protecting the weak and providing a place of safety a key tenet of Christianity?

So you actually don’t know how your aims could be accomplished in the real world then.

This again 😬 no you couldn’t ask without digs so no response until you do. Try again on another thread.

That’s good. I don’t mind if you take many people. Live out your beliefs personally.

Blame your forefathers.

I'm on my way.

I just need to make some Danish Open Sandwiches first, to keep me going as I travel. Also a container of Rodgrad med flode - sorry, no umlout on my keyboard. 🙂

And if the UK followed your advice of living out its beliefs personally then there would be no boats. Funny that.

My pp explains very clearly why I'm assuming that you're not British. Perhaps read it again, hint, it's the bit in bold.

So you're not British, hate Britain, so where are you from?

Sounds delicious!

The boats as you want them aren’t actually that great. They are dangerous, women and children often die, and people make vast profits.

But it’s ok you can take many people in your house, via a charity.

It's also a tenet of Islam.
Islamic teachings weave compassion for the needy into the core requirements of faith and daily life.

Now ask me why the Gulf States won't take refugees ??

No it doesn’t, all it does is demonstrate how quickly patriotism morphs into nationalism.

I am British and don’t hate Britain, I’m just not prepared to pretend British foreign policy has not wreaked death and destruction across the planet.

Haha, enjoy.
Although I must point out that William the conqueror also had viking ancestry so you're on dodgy ground. 😂