Yes this is much better than standing around in some old camp in Calais - just get any old raft, fill it with said economic migrants, push out into the Channel, have mate call the coastguards `people in trouble in Channel guvnor`. Air-sea rescue/seabourne security/Border force/uncle tom cobly et al will be with them in ten minutes...
Unfortunately, the French will stand back and watch it happen. The nation, I find them to be a snide and underhand, lacking in moral responsibility coupled with a deep rooted sense of shame.
I dont know where the french actually saw these migrants, but if it were close to the Dover Straites ,or into the sea off Cherbourg ,then they would have been waters claimed by the UK.
It still is for the deserving, but should not be for those who take advantage.
But not relevant for those potentially in danger at sea. The duty then is universal and applies in any navigation.
Still waiting for the link not alt-right / conspiracy theory that says RNLI are involved in people smuggling
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-36413296/rnli-on-rescuing-channel-migrantsStill waiting for the link not alt-right / conspiracy theory that says RNLI are involved in people smuggling
You kicked off today venting your spleen with this story in the news but I fail to see RNLI involvement
Three English Channel migrants brought ashore
Just for you...
Not at all. A species called the German people established the precise time required to kill a human being by chucking them into tanks of water of varying temperatures. They then started their stop watchs, stood by, and timed how long it took for each of them to die at a particular temperature. The test was repeated numerous times with multiple specimens at any given temperature in order to get a good average.
but how to define deserving? political and economic refuge aside, what makes one "deserving" of citizenship? would you be happy if the RNLI, for example, rescued Michael Gove if he were afloat somewhere mid la manche?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
but it would be recycled as fish food?Yes of course, the last thing we want is for our oceans to be polluted.
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Politicians are used to insults, but I think Michael Gove would object to being referred to as fish food.
indeed - sadly it doesn't get one out of the dilemma of who to save. In a parallel universe finding myself on an RNLI lifeboat in the channel, having to choose between Michael Gove and a Moroccan crack dealer, I'd feel quite conflicted.Politicians are used to insults, but I think Michael Gove would object to being referred to as fish food.
And would you want to eat a fish containing bits of Gove?
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I’m no fan of Gove, but it would be him everyday of the week faced with that choice. I would run the lifeboat straight over the Moroccan crack dealer on my way to rescue Gove, even if it involved a detour. On the way back, I would repeat the exercise, just to make sure. Hopefully word would soon spread that trying to get to the UK illegally is a treacherous and futile exercise likely to end in death.
yes, but think about it, would a crack dealer really do more damage to the uk than gove? would one, metaphorically, be dragging a rabbit with myxomatosis back into the hutch instead of a merely somewhat antisocial one.
