Why Doesn't the UK Stop the Boats?

[Gnome]

Good that they are reducing the numbers. I like to think these mega dinghies are a last gasp for the smuggling gangs. Surely they must be easier to stop: all it takes for Johnny Gendarme to poke one hole and 250 people have had their plans thwarted, as opposed to the smaller boats.

[Ricky]

Good that they are reducing the numbers. I like to think these mega dinghies are a last gasp for the smuggling gangs. Surely they must be easier to stop: all it takes for Johnny Gendarme to poke one hole and 250 people have had their plans thwarted, as opposed to the smaller boats.

So why doesn't the UK just stop the boats?

[Ricky]

[Ricky]

grim

[TheRiverCityHippy]

The boats arent the problem, they are just a lightening rod for peoples anger, we havent added somewhere between 7-9 million to our population via rubber dingy.
What makes all this migration into this country particularly problematic was it by and large followed hot on the heels of the deindustrialisation of the U.K, people were still reeling from having all their well paid jobs taken away when they suddenly found themselves competing for the scaps that were left with waves and waves of cheap foreign labour.
Over the last 40 years our politicians have become noticably richer [cough cough Tony Blair] as the British people have become noticably poorer. In fact the native population are the big losers in this shell game, the banking/corporate/donor class get their cheap labour and gig economy, the politicians get their cushy jobs in the boardrooms of the large financial istitutions, the migrants get to live in a western european country and the ordinary Brit picks up the tab for the lot of it.

[SticknMove]

Simple really. Just no will to do what is necessary.

[NazNaci1]

The boats arent the problem, they are just a lightening rod for peoples anger, we havent added somewhere between 7-9 million to our population via rubber dingy.
What makes all this migration into this country particularly problematic was it by and large followed hot on the heels of the deindustrialisation of the U.K, people were still reeling from having all their well paid jobs taken away when they suddenly found themselves competing for the scaps that were left with waves and waves of cheap foreign labour.
Over the last 40 years our politicians have become noticably richer [cough cough Tony Blair] as the British people have become noticably poorer. In fact the native population are the big losers in this shell game, the banking/corporate/donor class get their cheap labour and gig economy, the politicians get their cushy jobs in the boardrooms of the large financial istitutions, the migrants get to live in a western european country and the ordinary Brit picks up the tab for the lot of it.

Pretty much it, in a nutshell.

[Ricky]

The boats arent the problem,

Well if you lived in Edinburgh maybe this next boat arrival would be your new neighbour, maybe the boats are a problem for whoever gets raped by this chancer?

[Baby Face Finster]

Just blow those ships out of the water. Poland shoots anyone crossing illegally at their border with Belarus and they are still a part of the E.U. If those economic refugees know that a boat they get on will be blown up trying to cross into Great Britain they will have second if not third thoughts about trying to illegally enter the country. Every country has a right to defend it's borders from illegal intrusion. Europe is being invaded and it needs to be stopped. The people coming over have no intention of adapting to European culture or values.

[SticknMove]

What ships? Large inflatables that could be punctured at the source of launch. No illegal economic migrant would be harmed, apart from the debt they owe to the traffickers.

[Ricky]

What ships? Large inflatables that could be punctured at the source of launch. No illegal economic migrant would be harmed, apart from the debt they owe to the traffickers.

Tbf to the French police they've started puncturing a few dingys. Rumour is we're paying about 60 million for them to do that though.


Imagine the UK being so weak we get jobbed over like this by France of all nations. It's pathetic. If it were up to me id send some British troops to occupy northern France, I bet the white hankies would be out in no time.