More deaths in the channel.

[motorbiking]

Exactly himmy, launches are irrelevant. It’s all about saving lives. Sadly the RNLI are spending beyond their means launching to taxi illegal immigrants.

The effort is consuming their most expensive craft and many who volunteer are publicly saying it’s unsustainable.

 

[motorbiking]

Look at that map again.

Unless the immigrants are coming down the Thames, and filly agrees they are not, then the hotspot isn't the immigrants.

I referred you to page 10. You just didn’t read it.

There is clearly a hotspot off the coast of france. Why are they there? Which craft are there? Are these the most expensive to operate?

 

[Roy Bloom]

Exactly himmy, launches are irrelevant. It’s all about saving lives. Sadly the RNLI are spending beyond their means launching to taxi illegal immigrants.

The effort is consuming their most expensive craft and many who volunteer are publicly saying it’s unsustainable.

I assume you're addressing my comment about the cost of boats to meet the conditions.
Your comment is based on an erroneous assumption.
Those rescued are not illegal immigrants, they're people at sea that need rescuing. They don't "hail a taxi". They ask for assistance because their life is in danger.
Tne RNLI (or the French equivalent) attempt to resuce them because that is what they do.

if it's unsustainable, then the government needs to do something, not rely on (nor attack) a charitable institution who's raison d'etre is to save lives.

 

[Roy Bloom]

...

There is clearly a hotspot off the coast of france. Why are they there? Which craft are there? Are these the most expensive to operate?

If there was a problem, say of children wandering onto thin ice and drowning, is it the LA's responsibility to fence in all open water to pevent access.
Or would it be the education dept's responsibility to educate people.

What is not acceptable is to argue that children should not be rescued because they should have known better.

 

[motorbiking]

So they haven’t broken any laws, all have valid passports and visas and have set off in vessels appropriately coded to maritime safety requirements, with a commercially endorsed and insured skipper?

No, thought not.

What do we call people who break the law?

 

[transam]

They are advised to dump / get rid of any pass ports and such paper work before landing in the UK

 

[Roy Bloom]

So they haven’t broken any laws, all have valid passports and visas and have set off in vessels appropriately coded to maritime safety requirements, with a commercially endorsed and insured skipper?

No, thought not.

What do we call people who break the law?

Why aren't the asylum seekers prosecuted for these apparent crimes?

Something to do with the Refugees Convention on not penalising those seeking asylum?
Yes? Thought so.

 

[motorbiking]

They frequently are prosecuted.

Claiming asylum does not give you a get out of jail ticket

 

[motorbiking]

They are advised to dump / get rid of any pass ports and such paper work before landing in the UK

Yep and the Wokes say it’s the government to blame for taking ages to process them.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I referred you to page 10. You just didn’t read it.

There is clearly a hotspot off the coast of france. Why are they there? Which craft are there? Are these the most expensive to operate?

Seen the 1 in the Thames ?

 

[denso13]

Sitting on the fence isn't doing them much good as their charitable contributions continue to slide.

Would you rather they didn't respond to calls from the channel?

 

[denso13]

Yep and the Wokes say it’s the government to blame for taking ages to process them.

Nah. It's the RNLI to blame. Bunch of chancers.

 

[denso13]

launching to taxi illegal immigrants.

Would you rather they didn't launch?

 

[denso13]

What do we call people who break the law?

Kevin?

 

[gant]

Would you rather they didn't respond to calls from the channel?

What's that got to do with the price of fish?
Seems to me they want to be a bit more vocal now charitable contributions are not keeping pace with an increasing workload.
Emotional blackmail doesn't really cut it which seems to be your go to when you can't put up a defence of your position.