Portsmouth Protests

[NoisyBrickDog]

Why are they all shouting "Shame on You" towards the police - when it was the RNLI who brought them all to shore?

Surly they should be shouting this towards the lifeboat crews....?

The rescue itself must have cost a fortune.

The cockroach!!

It is unacceptable for RNLI crews , who are volunteers risking their lives to help those in distress, to face any kind of criticism or threats for doing their well respected and appreciated service.

It is also unacceptable that the migrant dinghy after requesting assistance then refused to accept it from the French rescue vessels opting to continue their journey to UK waters. As such the migrant dinghy then dictated where they were rescued, when they were rescued, by whom they were rescued and into which country they were brought ashore. In addition to creating greater risk to the RNLI crews this effectively turned the service provided by the RNLI from a rescue service to a taxi service

There was a Boris wave. Once when a lot of Eastern European citizens came over and another post Covid. When they tried to bring in an intitative to allow processing outside the country your party vetoed it. It now continues unabated and with the help of volunteers.

Rwanda was going to cost £541 million for 300 asylum seekers.
£1.8 million per asylum seeker.
Cleverly called it 'batshit'.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/2024/03/the-batsht-economics-of-the-rwanda-plan

Spot on @1dayatatime

It’s almost as though it’s a well thought out tactic by organised criminals isn’t it. Weird.

My party?

I'm just anti-drowning.

It may well have been batshit but my comment was to a previous poster who inferred the Conservatives did nothing to deter illegal migration over their tenure.

Alongside the boats that time there was also a huge influx of people coming in under student visas and not going home. I assume those people are still here.

Some posters would prefer people to drown.

It's a difficult problem to solve.

So much easier to just blame other people.

Ah. I assumed rhey were your party of choice. Apologies. Unless you are a Green voter of course.

Numbers arriving are incredibly low in a deterrent system. Plus people moved voluntarily to ROI which is very low cost.

I’d prefer them not to make the trip at all. That would be my preference.

Australia had loads of drownings and now none. They wouldn’t go back to it either.

Until that happens, support the RNLI, not Tommo's thugs.

Because soem dangerous loon on social media with an agenda to stoke division said so?

why didn't the RNLI vessel simply return them to France - it was the same distance?

• Because the RNLI vessel would have to sail back from France afterwards across the world's busy shipping channel, putting the crew in needless danger.
• Because the RNLI are not immigration officers and this isn't their fucking job.
• Because the RNLI don't have permission to land rescuees in France.

Why didn't the French maritime rescue service vessel pick the rescuees up and take them to safety in France? That'a the question you should be asking.

Yes.

No it’s not resolving the issue in any EU country.

Because the migrants didn’t want to be taken to safety in France. And what the migrants want it seems, the migrants largely get.

People die making these crossings all the time. They would rather drown than not come here.

The French vessel stood by in case the boat went under, but the crew aren't going to put themselves at risk trying to offload unwilling people from an overcrowded inflatable dinghy. The RNLI then picked them up because it would have been immoral to let them continue on such a boat.

That's what I was trying to get you to think of, when I asked that question about why the French didn't pick them up.

As long as people would sooner die trying to get get here than give up, this will keep happening.

The French vessel stood by in case the boat went under, but the crew aren't going to put themselves at risk trying to offload unwilling people from an overcrowded inflatable dinghy.

The French maritime rescue aren't the police. They have no powers to detain people. They cannot force a vessel's crew to abandon it.

Yes I’m not arguing with any of that. The migrants refused so it ended there.

Unless you care whether people drown, which the RNLI very much does.

They care so much about people drowning that they were also on standby to save the protestors attacking the RNLI.