French navy officers refused to rescue 60 distressed migrants on a cramped boat filling with water in its territory – and instead radioed and asked UK Border Force to come and rescue them. The Mail has the story.
French officials spent hours this morning shadowing a packed migrant boat – mostly men – across the Channel, sparking extraordinary scenes.
But the situation quickly went awry, as they could be heard shouting and screaming “help” and waving their hands at a nearby French navy boat.
Despite knowing the dinghy was full of water, the French authorities did not help or try and rescue them and instead radioed the UK Border Force.
The incident came as new figures show the total number migrants this year so far has already hit 3,224 – 8% higher than the same point last year which saw 2,983 migrants arrive in Dover.
That’s 26,466 since Keir Starmer took power – an average of 55 a day.
Fours hours after the French Navy had began following a dinghy at 5.50am, around 1.3 miles away from the French coast, they radioed the UK Border Force about the distressed boat.
During the conversation on a public radio system – which can be listened to on any boat – one French official could be heard informing the British service that the boat was full of water and migrants were waving their hands.
One said: “Do you have a rib to clear the situation if possible?”
Border Force replied: “Regarding sending our rib into French water. If possible, it would be preferred if you could launch your rib in your side and if there is any distress, we will come into French waters. But yeah, are you able to launch your rib over?”
The French did as requested and nine miles later handed over the migrants to a UK Border Force vessel, who were then returned to Dover.
One witness said: “This was a complete taxi service. The French said these migrants were distressed and needed help. But it didn’t rescue them. Instead they asked Britain.
“When Britain were not keen, the French simply escorted them even further into British water. It’s appalling.”
Another added: “That’s the French refusing to rescue the boat and instead just waiting for Border Force.
“They are a taxi service. This is evidence of them not wanting to help the migrants and instead just making sure they get to Britain.”
New figures show how the small boats crisis is deepening.
In just the first four days of this month 1,168 migrants have made their way across the Channel, with 326 migrants in six boats making the perilous journey yesterday.
This is the first recording of more than 1,000 arrivals in four days so far this year, according to Home Office data.
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Yeah, it’s a nice, logical story and conclusion, but there are so many external factors and unkowns that make such an effort and study pretty useless.
Even without economists dismal track record at forecasting anything correctly for much shorter time periods.
And then, we have the robots replacing most of them anyway, and possibly much fewer of them still around anyway, thanks to the Covid NPIs and PIs and those in response to the many upcoming plandemics and climate change ones.
More ridiculous modelling.
My father left school at 14 to start an apprenticeship. At 21 he started two years National Service. In his forties he obtained a post graduate qualification in Management. There were many of his generation who did similar.
He is less formally educated than me but undoubtedly brighter. His handwriting is beautiful. His mechanical skills were exceptional but now unavailable through loss of sight.
I suggest that the disruption to education would be remedied by concentrating on the three R’s, a proper five day week and stripping out ALL the woke BS. Oh and a strong emphasis on teaching Imperial British history and politics.
A problem created via a model is not a problem as we on here know only too well.
A proper emphasis on crafts and arts (not the modern vacuous kind) would also go a long way. Kids aren’t given enough imaginative play and without that they don’t develop an imagination. Too little is invested in allowing genuine culture. But then I guess culture is “racist” by definition.
But think of all that woke history they won’t be learning. How will they manage? An extra month of dead white male bashing is the least we can do. Haven’t the children suffered enough already?
Au contraire
After the black death the wages of artisans rocketed
When the jab bodies pile up this winter I’ll be charging a £1,000 an hour to put your bin bags out
If you book and pay me now it could be a good hedge against inflation
My prices are not likely to stay that low for long
This is meaningless. Necessity is the mother of invention, not curriculum.
We should be under no illusions
The Pig Dictator is just as dangerous as Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and all the other tyrants that have left their imprint on humanity
Good interview with Reiner Fuellmich by James Delingpole:
https://rumble.com/vhg4jb-dr-reiner-fuellmich-in-da-house.html
Apparently there’s going to be significant legal progress “in the next 2 or 3 weeks”. Also good on governmental liability (from about 46 minutes).
I am somewhat confused by the surprise being exhibited by many on this speculation concerning the release of the virus from a China laboratory. This has been postulated since the beginning of this nightmare.
It seems to me that there are 3 and only 3 possible scenarios that explain the mass coordinated hysteria by Western Governments.
The first is a vast global conspiracy orchestrated by the WEF and UN to enslave mankind with all the ‘minor’ players like MPs, SAGE members, lab technicians etc. in each country being convinced that they will be on the gravy train when all is done. Such a conspiracy is so unlikely as to be absurd. Conspiracies of 6 or more rarely succeed, let alone one that would require 10s of thousands to participate.
The second is that Western Governments were informed by their ‘security’ services that this ‘novel’ virus was the result of ‘gain of function’ research in China to create a weaponised cold virus. (The source was probably as reliable as the Iraqi taxi driver who convinced the West of Saddam’s WMDs but such dubious provenance would not have hindered their flight to the basement.)
Governments panicked, assuming that this new virus would be easily transmitted like a cold but as deadly as Ebola. Had that been the case they might have been justified in their fear, however, it was obvious within days that they were not, but being the venal, self-serving pond-life that they are they were not prepared to apologise with a public “mea culpa”, instead they continued to destroy jobs, businesses, economies, futures and lives in an attempt to avoid blame for being gutless and inept. After all, their panic clearly undermined the ego and self image of fat, selfish, narcissists like Johnson and the power narcotic of ‘small-man-syndrome’ suffers like Wancock seeking revenge for having his head shoved down the toilet during every PE lesson.
The self serving, mass advertising campaign (>£350 million in the UK) designed to convince the sheeple that this is not a flu-like illness with a similar fatality rate but that it is as deadly as the weaponised virus of their early nightmares, has persisted for more than a year, directly causing more collateral deaths than the virus itself.
This second scenario is almost as absurd as the first. It would require such heartless, selfish, criminal disregard by politicians for the welfare of their populations that it beggars belief. Surely no one would deliberately destroy millions of lives merely to avoid opprobrium of inept decision making? Other than of course; Blair, Brown & Campbell, who happily killed hundreds of thousands pursuing an illegal war justified by deliberate lies told the Parliament and the people of the UK. But now, surely no one would be so evil?
Then there is the third and last possible scenario that is by far the most reasonable, sensible and probable. It fits all the facts and is now being endorsed by the US Government with their lates pronouncements on the subject.
Aliens have arrived and have sprayed the atmosphere with delirium gas causing global, irrational psychosis …