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05-06-2021, 05:24 PM
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Lucky immigrants

Now I see British patrol boats are going into French waters to pick up immigrants.
What next. Border patrol boats taking the rubber boats back to France so they can be used again?
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05-06-2021, 05:41 PM
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Re: Lucky immigrants

Originally Posted by big ben ->
Now I see British patrol boats are going into French waters to pick up immigrants.
What next. Border patrol boats taking the rubber boats back to France so they can be used again?
Makes you sick, doesn't it? Not content with a having an escort and put up in lodgings for free, they complain that their accommodation isn't good enough, the (free) meals are poor, and there's no Wi-Fi. They're a lot better off than they were and a damned-sight better off than some of our own needy.

About time Ms Patel got this sorted once and for all.
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05-06-2021, 05:57 PM
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Re: Lucky immigrants

This is happening week after week, day in and day out. About time someone, somewhere did something about it. Those trying to get to the UK even have, according to the news item below, the knowledge of tactics to ensure a UK ship picked them up, not a French vessel or they would be returned to France!

"Ms Moreton said it was a common tactic for migrants to threaten to throw someone overboard if a French vessel came too close, because migrants knew if they were picked up by a UK ship they were "as good as here"."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-57369168
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05-06-2021, 06:01 PM
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Re: Lucky immigrants

I recall posting about this way back, when some refugees were given housing and all their needs catered to, on a Scottish Island. They got fed up with idyllic island life and wanted to relocate to Birmingham where their extended family were.

Bye then.
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06-06-2021, 03:57 PM
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Re: Lucky immigrants

Border "Farce",not force.

Might as well let the "border force " cut out the people smugglers, and just send our boats to Calais, and fetch as many as possible, without any covid testing,then send them all over the UK, that'll screw up lockdown rules!
Any uk residents, unable to get flights back before Tuesday deadline, head to Calais, buy a dinghy!
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07-06-2021, 11:20 AM
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Re: Lucky immigrants

Perhaps the UK could use its fishing fleet to help bring them over.

Might be able to use the minimum size rule to chuck a few overboard.
 

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