Ssssssshhhhhh, don't mention Reform.

[diy_fun_uk]

Sir John Hayes making the point I made earlier:

"These figures reveal what most people suspected — the French are half-hearted about what we’re paying for them to do. Frankly, they’ve got enough people and resources to puncture every dinghy before it sets off. They should be doing all they can to stop these boats launching, not just standing around."

France makes 'half-hearted' effort to stop small boats

French police have stopped more migrants than the number arriving on Britain's shores on just two occasions since May 2024.

www.express.co.uk

Yep, £476 million well spent ...

What a fecking joke.

 

[Notch7]

Answer to previous question. It doesn’t matter. It can be close or near to the border for the purpose of communicating.

physically using jets skis to turn a boat around is not "communicating"

 

[Mottie]

Unlike you, I apologise when I’m wrong.

No, you try to bluff it out and apologise when you double down and are then caught.

 

[Notch7]

Nothing prevents the necessary action to occur inside the state’s territorial waters.

yes it does

UNCLOS 19g applies

a British boat entering French waters to physically turn around migrant boats is not innocent passage

 

[Notch7]

No, you try to bluff it out and apologise when you double down and are then caught.

I apologised straight away

oh dear Mottie looks awfully silly............but then Reform voters all look silly because they are brainwashed

 

[Mottie]

I apologised straight away

oh dear Mottie looks awfully silly............but then Reform voters all look silly because they are brainwashed

What do I have to apologise for? Did I say they didn’t or did I ask a question? Unlike you, I didn’t lie and try to cover it with another lie. Have another look at my post.

 

[motorbiking]

yes it does

UNCLOS 19g applies

a British boat entering French waters to physically turn around migrant boats is not innocent passage

You’re just making it up.

 

[Mottie]

You’re just making it up.

He does that. Often.

 

[noseall]

You’re just making it up.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

I've just emailed Keir to advise I'm happy to disguise myself as a French border patrol guard and, if the UK Government can smuggle me across, I'll station myself on the French coast and stop more boats myself. I've asked for £1 million a year, 5 year contract.

I'll let you know what he says.

 

[Justin Passing]

And we have no rights over theirs. We could pass a law to allow us to put soldiers on French beaches. I doubt it would work.

We don't need them.
By the time they got round to patrolling our patrols mid channel, or somewhere else, it would all be over, in another place..

 

[denso13]

By the time they got round to patrolling our patrols mid channel, or somewhere else, it would all be over, in another place..

I don't know what that means. We can't intercept them until they are in UK waters, by which time they are our responsibility.

If there was an easier way it would have been done by now given the criticism of different governments.

 

[Highway Man]

I've just emailed Keir to advise I'm happy to disguise myself as a French border patrol guard and, if the UK Government can smuggle me across, I'll station myself on the French coast and stop more boats myself. I've asked for £1 million a year, 5 year contract.

I'll let you know what he says.

If you get it and need any help, I will put my military expertise at your services.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

If you get it and need any help, I will put my military expertise at your services.

I would be happy retaining £500k per year, allocating the other £500k (to be split accordingly) to anyone happy to assist on a sub-contractor basis.

I got an out of office from Keir, he's currently planning another task force, so it could be Monday before I hear anything. Rayner asked if she could be of any assistance but I declined.

 

[Notch7]

You’re just making it up.

UNCLOS 19 g