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Gnome wrote: ↑13 Aug 2026, 09:42 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.

TheRiverCityHippy wrote: ↑19 Aug 2026, 09:12 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.

TheRiverCityHippy wrote: ↑19 Aug 2026, 09:12 The boats arent the problem,