Fear Of Water? Yet They Get In A Flimsy Rubber Boat To Cross The Channel ?

[Bobbisox1]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/07/bibby-stockholm-migrants-block-move-fear-water-care4calais/#:~:text=As%20many%20as%2020%20migrants,Portland%2C%20Dorset%2C%20on%20Monday.

[bednobs]

sorry, it's behind a paywall

[Bobbisox1]

Sorry Bednobs

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12381723/Lawyers-block-transfer-20-asylum-seekers-Bibby-Stockholm-eleventh-hour-arrivals-board-vessel-goodie-bags-flowers-maps-shampoo.html

[Old_Geezer]

What a load of BS.

Yet some idiots will get taken in by it, or pretend to in order to try thwarting any solution government comes up with for dealing with the issue.

In any case, they ain't being dumped in water so can't get scared of it. They'll be aboard a good watertight barge instead.

[ichkeria]

It seems it was the experience of crossing the channel tho that caused it.
I don’t know if that is truthful but it’s more plausible than a mere fear of water

[Old_Geezer]

In that case fly them back to France and they won't be taking the trip again. Problem solved.

[naomi24]

Pathetic. Any excuse.

[ToraToraTora]

This smells of 5C lawyers.

[bazwillrun]

whoever heard this frivolous case is/are the ones that needs to be questioned...the fool or fools that fell for this are a joke and must have degrees in naivety...case should have been tossed out and all these so called asylum seekers aka illegal sponging freeloaders with it...

[andy-hughes]

If someone told you a fear of breathing in and out delayed your deportation, you'd advise your lawyer to offer it.

We should see it for the delay tactic it is, not how genuine it nay be.

[Bobbisox1]

Lawyers who work for Care For Calais, yeah, okay !

[retrocop]

I wouldn't want to go near that barge in a few weeks time. It's going to pong to high heaven and no error.

[Bobbisox1]

Retrocop they’re allowed off and can walk freely ( and probably disappear freely)

[youngmafbog]

Lefty Lawyers again.

[Old_Geezer]

They are ???? Then what's the point ? Has the authorities a single brain cell to share between them ? If one is being investigated whether they should be let stay, then clearly they can't be allowed to wander freely beforehand.

And if they don't act properly wherever they're kept during the investigation, then that should be an automatic refusal and result in sending them back to the country they entered the UK from, or other approved country, ASAP.

[theshedman]

As Bobbi says they can walk around freely from what I have heard. The problem will come when they get wind that they are going to be refused asylum then there is every chance that they will disappear. They complain about conditions here but many of them were living in tents or under a tarp before they got here. Now they get a warm place to live, 3 meals a day and medical care free of charge. Some of our families here would be happy to get that. I'm not against the ones coming to escape persecution and violence but we need to look after our own people too.

[Old_Geezer]

The point is that by & large, the vast majority are not the ones coming to escape persecution and violence. Maybe a few were before they left their own country, but you'd be hard pressed finding any escaping from persecution and violence from France, or indeed any other European country close enough to move from to the UK.

[Hymie]

30p Lee says they should F off back to France.

The youtube video is worth ABers watching, as the presenter explains that people arriving by boats are not arriving illegally – and that the UK government has granted asylum to 80% of those arriving by the channel crossings.

[naomi24]

^More fool them.

[Bobbisox1]

Hymie I don’t know where you look for all your videos but I’d like to bet nobody opens them

[sandyRoe]

They may have been traumatized by their voyage in the flimsy boat.
It's perfectly understandable that they could have developed an aversion to water.