There’s a lesson here.
An antiques dealer familiar to millions on TV and her husband were fined £3,000 after contacting British police to report a migrant who had snuck into their van in France.
Mother-of-two Jane Cave, 56, who features on the BBC‘s The Bidding Room, and her husband Ed Masters had been on a trip to buy antiques when they passed through customs in Calais.
They were heading through Suffolk on their way home to Norfolk when they heard noises in the back of their van and found a ‘dark, shortish [man] carrying a mobile phone’.
They immediately reported what had happened to Suffolk Police and the man was apprehended.
But they later received a letter from UK Border Force saying they were being fined for unknowingly smuggling a migrant into the country after they failed to properly secure their vehicle.
To any reasonable person, this is a disgrace. You can be fined for ‘unknowingly’ carrying an illegal. Fucking Hellski!
Tourists and commercial drivers are at risk of being fined if they fail to adequately secure their vehicles, under the rules of the Government’s civil penalty scheme.
The Home Office said the scheme ‘aims to ensure drivers are taking every reasonable step to deter irregular migration and disrupt people smugglers.’
No. What it does is encourage drivers who find an illegal in the back of their vehicle to let them go and say nothing because they will be penalised if they do the right thing – but this is UKGov we are talking about here where we are ruled by cretins, so perverse incentives abound. Fuckwits.
‘My advice now would be for anyone in the same situation to just let the migrant go off in a layby and not report it.’
Precisely.
Or bury the body!!!
Yep – no one knows that they are here, there will not be a missing persons report filed or any search for the person and provided you S.S.S. (Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up) no come back.
I think that the punishment was because they were interfering with the Governments efforts to swamp the country with the third world and if they had been praised for reporting him, then that would be a poor message to out out (from the Governments point of view).
I think that the UK is dangerously close to something along those lines but the numpties in the Home Orifice and Government are too arrogant and out of touch to realise this.