Farage on swans - is he right?

[Brigadier]

 

[Highway Man]

Mr. Farage, surely our greatest living politician, has stated that some of our immigrants are in the habit of killing and eating our swans, geese and other wild animals. I have been hearing about this for years, and there are videos all over the Internet of it in fact. The immigrants are said to also catch fish for eating, rather then putting them back once caught, and ornamental fish have been taken from ponds. Allegedly.

Is he right? Are there any keen fishermen here who can add anything?

...and to all the collaborating, commie quislings here who will by reflex shout "that is not true"... remember, it was Farage who first brought to light immigrants in boats landing on the south coast. Nobody believed him. He was shouted down and rubbished for a couple of years.

I used to fish a lake that was a brilliant carp lake, the polish started using it and they actually ate the carp out of the lake. Lots of lake owners do not allow them to fish overnight because of this.

 

[Si_]

Too many swans round us, a few missing doesn't make a great deal of difference. The males (pens?) are extremely territorial and aggressive, I have seen them drown a rival male youngster who got too close. The poles like carp. the Chinnese like dogs, they are all meat.

Humans are meat too. Do you support cannibalism?

 

[MNW67]

Humans are meat too. Do you support cannibalism?

Humans have always been set apart from some reason.

 

[Si_]

Humans have always been set apart from some reason.

Must be the taste, because there's a lot of meat on a person, especially in the modern world.

 

[MNW67]

Must be the taste, because there's a lot of meat on a person, especially in the modern world.

Maybe it's to do with ethics.

I've never really thought about it.

 

[Brigadier]

I used to fish a lake that was a brilliant carp lake,

No such thing: they're completely artificial, stocked to suck in the paying schmucks.

The fish are caught so often, they are even given names by the punters ffs.

 

[pete01]

Yes, he usually is.

 

[Highway Man]

No such thing: they're completely artificial, stocked to suck in the paying schmucks.

The fish are caught so often, they are even given names by the punters ffs.

Well realistically you cannot keep putting new fish in everytime somebody catches one can you.

 

[Notch7]

Mr. Farage, surely our greatest living politician, has stated that some of our immigrants are in the habit of killing and eating our swans, geese and other wild animals. I have been hearing about this for years, and there are videos all over the Internet of it in fact. The immigrants are said to also catch fish for eating, rather then putting them back once caught, and ornamental fish have been taken from ponds. Allegedly.

Is he right? Are there any keen fishermen here who can add anything?

...and to all the collaborating, commie quislings here who will by reflex shout "that is not true"... remember, it was Farage who first brought to light immigrants in boats landing on the south coast. Nobody believed him. He was shouted down and rubbished for a couple of years.

 

[Notch7]

the polish started using it and they actually ate the carp out of the lake

A load of old carp…..

 

[Brigadier]

Well realistically you cannot keep putting new fish in everytime somebody catches one can you.

Or, you could fish somewhere not artificial.
Like a river, or a lake that was not artificially stocked.

Treat it as a challenge, in beautiful surroundings.

These "fisheries", it's like saying a Deliveroo is as good as going out to a decent restaurant.

 

[blup]

Humans are meat too. Do you support cannibalism?

Humans are human

 

[Mottie]

I used to fish a lake that was a brilliant carp lake, the polish started using it and they actually ate the carp out of the lake. Lots of lake owners do not allow them to fish overnight because of this.

A friend of ours owned a fishery. Twice they caught the same foreigners at night catching carp to take away - they were actually in the water dragging a net across the lake. First time he gave them a warning and said you don’t do that over here and chucked them out. The second time, he and a few mates gave them a proper kicking and took their net from them. There wasn’t a third time. That was over 10 years ago. There's quite a few Eastern Europeans up where I used to work in East London and if you walked through Queens market, the fishmongers shops are stocked with carp - probably poached.

 

[Si_]

Humans are human

Thanks for that insight, Mr Dawkins.