Entirely predictable, of course.
At least six people have died and more than 50 have been rescued after a boat trying to cross the Channel from France capsized, according to French authorities.
Franck Dhersin, the mayor of Téteghem, near Dunkirk, said a vast rescue operation was launched at about 6am (5am BST) as dozens of boats tried to make the crossing at the same time.
“Several of the boats were facing serious difficulties,” he said.
“Near Sangatte they unfortunately found dead bodies.”
The sea is a dangerous place. People die in it every day. Try to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world on a rubber dinghy and this is what you risk. Is it harsh of me to point out that if you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes?
We know that the increasing number of people risking their lives to cross the Channel is a direct consequence of safe routes being so limited and ineffective.
Fuck off. These people are predominantly economic migrants, not refugees. There is a perfectly legal route. They chose not to take it. Those seeking asylum were already in a safe place, so crossing the Channel is entirely unnecessary. What we are seeing here is an invasion by people hostile to our way of life, culture and customs. Time it stopped and time that all routes were closed and anyone coming across illegally is immediately deported to their country of origin. No exceptions. Then it will stop.
According to the Mail, the RNLI brought several illegal immigrants back to Dover. Why? Calais was the nearest port to where the boat floundered.
RNLI should be charged in transporting illegals into the UK. Stop this nonsense.
If the Home Office had any balls that’s exactly what they’d do…
It is precisely for this reason that I stopped my RNLI Shoreline membership. I only support the independent lifeboats (Sidmouth in my case) now. Until the RNLI stop ferrying illegal migrants into the UK they can whistle for any donations from me.
Ditto
One quick rule change would stop this invasion-anyone entering illegally is not allowed to claim asylum under any circumstances.
I can’t understand why a Conservative govt is allowing this to happen. It’s a complete vote loser apart from the tiny minority who want these criminals here.
“I can’t understand why a Conservative govt is allowing this to happen.”
We have a Conservative government? When did that happen, has there been an election?
The economic migrants are not our citizens. They are not our concern – but if we do rescue them in our waters then they get what we choose to allow them. If that is forced repatriation or being given a fresh boat and pointed at France then it should be done immediately, without appeal.
The government have not taken effective action to stop the small boats because they don’t want to stop the small boats.
Why that is, I’m not sure.
But there is no other reasonable explanation for what is being allowed to happen.
If we’re being generous, it’s because of the demographic problem and what it means for future entitlements, mainly pensions.
We’re facing a population collapse as people aren’t having enough children. The birth rate needs to be 2.1 children per woman to sustain a population at replacement. Ours is currently around 1.7 (I have heard it reported lower).
This is a big problem as what we could end up with is an inverted population pyramid, with more retirees than workers. It used to be there was one retiree for every 10 workers to support. Now we’re approaching parity. Soon we could be facing two retirees for every worker to support. So who will be paying the pensions?
If you’re giving every pensioner £160/wk, that means that every worker has to be taxed a minimum of £320/wk on average just to pay pensions. That’s about £1300 /month ish. So at current tax rates, you need the average tax payer to be on £72000 per annum. And this is just for pensions.
There’s also all the other money that government insists on spaffing up the wall. That needs funding as well, so you could probably double the required tax take from every tax payer.
So most likely they’re doing it to increase the income tax base by having more workers and more tax payers.
The problem with this is that a lot of the migrants don’t actually work and just leech off the benefits, and also they don’t have children either, so the problem is just delayed a small bit.
And this is a problem that 70% of countries face. In fact the only countries that don’t have a declining birth rate are in subsaharan Africa. And their birth rates are also trending down… By 2050, Nigeria will have a larger population than China.
So look forward to pensions means testing, if there’s even a public pension at all…
This is the inevitable result of setting up the pension system as a Ponzi scheme.
I don’t understand why we can’t send them back to France. You know, the safe country they just came from. But not to Calais where they’ll just try again and again until they manage to evade capture. Send them back to one of France’s overseas departments. I’m sure they’d love to be deported to a tropical paradise such as Martinique. And I’m sure the French would love to have their tropical paradises suitably enriched. If not, it might concentrate French minds on coming up with a solution to their problem instead of pushing it onto Perfidious Albion.
I saved one of them from drowning once. I took my foot off his head.
“We know that the increasing number of people risking their lives to cross the Channel is a direct consequence of safe routes being so limited and ineffective.”
People? Where are the women? Where are the kids?
When a man is fleeing war, he takes his family with him.
When a man goes to fight a war, he goes alone.
Ripper- exactly.
My grandfather put his wife and children on a boat out of a war zone, and they, along with hundreds of other women and children, sailed to safety.
If he’d tried to take a place on the boat himself, he’d have been quite rightly thrown in the harbour by the husbands and fathers of the other women and children.
I know where I’d send them. The Ukrainians need more meat to throw into the grinder. Perfect solution, given that they are all fighting age men.
Chernyy- it makes a sort of self-consistent sense, but you’re being too kind to our politicians.
That explanation only stands up if we accept that our current MPs are happy to lose their seats in 2024, in order to improve the public finances in 2054.
I think it’s far more plausible to assume it’s down to general spinelessness, and a specific fear of being accused of racism.
Boris won the 2019 election by promising to sort this out, but the prospect of an ear-bashing from Carrie was enough to make him leave the whole thing in the hands of the Civil Service.
The spinelessness ties in perfectly.
They figure out that being elected means saying they’re going to do something about the problem. Then they’re elected and the population problem is pointed out to them. Instead of doing something about it that requires grasping the nettle (by, ooh, I don’t know, shrinking the state massively to reduce the tax burden, actually deporting illegals, encouraging house building, etc) they just give up and do half-hearted efforts for optics.