What is a King?
In what context?
In the context of your latest user name.
What is a King?
In what context?
Someone who migrates to a country that they have no legal right to be in. The clue is in the name.Now tell us what an illegal migrant is.

More strawmen arguments.no mention of Tides.![]()
There are or were other factors, e.g. weather, tides, variations in beach patrols, launching from Belgium, etc.
Depends what other conditions they are combined with.
Tidal currents can be favourable or unfavourable so yes, it can make a difference.

Given that you are a right-wing extremist, at what point do you think these asylum seekers are illegal migrants, during the process that you described?You are really blinded by you extreme leftist woke mindset aren't you!

The clue is in the question.In the context of your latest user name.

At what point do they become illegal immigrants, given that it's obvious by the label you have to be in a country to be an immigrant?Someone who migrates to a country that they have no legal right to be in. The clue is in the name.
They're failed asylum seekers. If they don't go back voluntarily, they do become illegal immigrants.What classification of people is it that Labour have boasted about sending back to their home countries in record numbers - not legal migrants surely?

Nothing to do with TidesMore strawmen arguments.
Because it's not all about tides.
Both noseall and I have consistently said that the risks and opportunities are caused by a combination of several influences.
You're inventing your own private argument, for you to argue with yourself.![]()

When they arrive illegally in the first country or safe country and fail to claim asylum.At what point do they become illegal immigrants, given that it's obvious by the label you have to be in a country to be an immigrant?
I can feel a "you're on ignore" coming on.
They're failed asylum seekers. If they don't go back voluntarily, they do become illegal immigrants.
Now back to the asylum seekers, at what point do they become illegal immigrants, given that you and several others insist on referring to asylum seekers as illegal migrants?
Ask MotorBi…..In the context of your latest user name.

You're insisting on this strawman argument.Nothing to do with Tides.
We very clearly said there are other factors to be considered.You could have said. Yes I understand that tides don’t impact the numbers.
So as non-experts, we educated you in the various factors that influence the number of small boat arrivals.You and Nosenout continue to argue about a subject you have zero knowledge of.
The tide cancels out the wind, the wind cancels out the current, the current cancels out the rain, the rain cancels out the little engine?If you were both honest I think you’d admit that you didn’t understand that they can cancel each other out if you set off at the right time.
You've demonstrated that you have little understanding of the combination of weather, tides, currents, etc.Something the illegals have worked out.

So if they claim asylum at the first opportunity, they're not illegal migrants?When they arrive illegally in the first country or safe country and fail to claim asylum.
When they apply for asylum, possibly before even arriving in UK, on the Border Force boat.. So they never were illegal immigrants.They cease to be illegals when they obtain the necessary authority.
It wasn't for. You and Mottie, Koolpc, et al all seemed to struggle with it for hours.Why is this so hard?

Combined with other effects, such as weather, other traffic, change in launching sites, etc it will make a difference.not from one year to the next.

illegalsSo if they claim asylum at the first opportunity, they're not illegal migrants?
Glad we got this far.
When they apply for asylum, possibly before even arriving in UK, on the Border Force boat.. So they never were illegal immigrants.
Are you still calling your house a boat or a train, or a castle? When it's really just a house
It wasn't for. You and Mottie, Koolpc, et al all seemed to struggle with it for hours.![]()
There is nothing straw man about correcting you and Nosenout that tides make no difference to the number of illegals who arrive each year and neither do they affect the steering of a boat crossing Calais to Dover.You're insisting on this strawman argument.
No-one ever said the arrival of small boats was just about tides, except you.
We put you right.
We very clearly said there are other factors to be considered.
So as non-experts, we educated you in the various factors that influence the number of small boat arrivals.
Don't you feel a little bit silly?
The tide cancels out the wind, the wind cancels out the current, the current cancels out the rain, the rain cancels out the little engine?
I wonder why you swallowed the fly.
You've demonstrated that you have little understanding of the combination of weather, tides, currents, etc.
Correct. The tidal currents combined with other factors can affect the numbers of successfully completed or attempted voyages.I don't see how it can, as it is not a major force to be reckoned with. Weather of course can be.
Also, there's no easy way to detect a difference. The shorter the periods are that you compare, the higher the potential for unrepresentative "other effects" to affect one of them, and the longer they are the more things even out. Regression to the mean, I believe it's called.
At certain times of year you can't even compare one month to another if in one of the years there were bad storms.

I don't think anybody has said that these other factors are a major force. It's the combination of the tide, the weather and the othe factors.I don't see how it can, as it is not a major force to be reckoned with. Weather of course can be.
The government website seem to have it down to a fine art.Also, there's no easy way to detect a difference.
I think, if I understood you correctly, I would argue the opposite is true. The longer periods would tend to show a regression to the mean.The shorter the periods are that you compare, the higher the potential for unrepresentative "other effects" to affect one of them, and the longer they are the more things even out. Regression to the mean, I believe it's called.
Or in one year there were more storms than usual.At certain times of year you can't even compare one month to another if in one of the years there were bad storms.