Why Are Border Force Assisting The Invaders?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-700-people-cross-channel-in-busiest-day-of-the-year-so-far-13127430

This is getting out of hand. Why are we not treating this as a hostile invasion and repelling it? 

Border force are supposed to protect the borders not assist invaders. 😡

[Untitled]

"armed patriots" eh 

what could possibly go wrong

[SparklyKid]

think spanish armada

[pastafreak]

Sparklykid...you mean like some would do in the US if given the chance? 

Yes...gun down, shoot, protect us...from unarmed invaders. 

[Untitled]

yes are you "patriotic" enough to do it yourself sparklykid or will you just get excited over other people doing it

[SparklyKid]

i would volunteer

[SparklyKid]

 pastafreak

 

Sparklykid...you mean like some would do in the US if given the chance? 

Yes...gun down, shoot, protect us...from unarmed invaders. 

 

 

glad you said invaders

[Old_Geezer]

One can act to save those in peril on the sea by returning them to the safe harbour they started their illegal crossing from.

[Old_Geezer]

You don't need French ageement, you merely say that you have kindly returned to them the individuals they unfortunately lost; and no need to thank you as being able to give them a helping hand is all the thanks you need.

[Old_Geezer]

This person sern drowning. Are they seen half way across the Channel ? How long is this lifeline and how far can you throw it ?

 

Again the sensible option is to return them to their starting point.

[Old_Geezer]

Of course it's hostile; in the sense that they know they will be a burden on our resources given we are already overpopulated, and they just don't care, as long as they leave France for the UK.

[Old_Geezer]

They cane from a safe country, ergo they ain't asylum seekers. Were that so they'd apply using the official channel, not the English Channel.

[pastafreak]

from...unarmed "invaders".

there...fixed it.

[New Judge]

"I'm not arguing that it has an obligation... i'm arguing that it would be useful"

Useful to whom?

"what this country needs are  armed patriots to head off these boats  and blow them out of the water"

I would not advocate anything quite that drastic. However there is no doubt that the only way to prevent this is to either ensure those landing here are immediately returned to France or they are prevented from landing in the first place. By immediately I mean just that - collected from the beach in Kent and taken directly to Dover and put on a ferry or a Royal Navy ship back. This is no different to Ireland's plan to return  migrants from Northern Ireland back there.

There is no other way to deal with this. All this fannying about, fretting over ways to deal with them after they have arrived will never cure the problem. And it is a huge problem.

It must be tackled properly and promptly. If that eans withdrawing as signatories to the UN Refugeee Convention and the ECHR, then so be it. There is no need for anyone living in France to clim asylum in the UK and this notion that asylum seekers must be "shared out" is as outdated as are those two treaties.