Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mrs May?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5223661/Bizarre-plan-launched-Dads-Army-Border-Force.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/12/30/23/47A6228300000578-5223661-The_Border_Force_volunteers_will_be_tried_out_along_the_East_Coa-a-3_1514677236312.jpg

[mikey4444]

Emmie....the Tories are just trying to save money....that's all there is to this....if it ever happens.

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON

Yes the typical elderly English gentleman and you Warden Hodges a rather coarse chap.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444
/// the Tories are just trying to save money ///

Just like all the main parties do, just so they can spend it on Johnny Foreigner.

[Peter Pedant]

No one wants a defended border and this is a good way of saying to brussels we have one at the cost of 3p per mile per year

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLDGIT, second thoughts, you'd be better as Mainwaring, the pompous patriot.

[TWR]

I presume you are Joking Gromit, I would not put anything pass this Government.

[Baldric]

Looks like AMY BELLE to me.

[Baldric]

Oops, ^^ wrong thread.

[fender62]

just a cheap diy taxi service for illegals....

[Khandro]

mikey; //the Tories are just trying to save money..//

I think it is no more than a neighbourhood watch type scheme - surely having local people who know the coastline keeping an eye open for illegal immigrants makes sense?

[mikey4444]

Khandro....to assist the proper Authorities perhaps, just like the Home Guard did. But not instead of, the aforesaid proper Authorities.

We have Special Constables but nobody is saying that they should replace the regular Police Force are they ?

[naomi24]

It’s impossible to watch every inch of coastline. A neighbourhood watch kind of scheme doesn’t seem like a bad idea to me.

[Jackdaw33]

If they have no powers to interrogate or arrest, what are they going to do should they come across illegal immigrants?

[naomi24]

Report it.

[Jackdaw33]

Report it? By the time Plod turns up they'll be miles away.

[naomi24]

Do you mean we shouldn't bother at all? How very defeatist, Jackdaw.

[mikey4444]

Jack....with 20,000 fewer police than we had in 2010, maybe there won't be anybody near enough to report it to ?

[Mamyalynne]

Apathy rules.

[naomi24]

Doesn't it just.

[Jackdaw33]

No, Naomi, what I am saying is that they should be given the necessary powers.