Migrant Boat Forces Dunkirk Flotilla to Divert
A flotilla of ‘Little Ships’ crossing the English Channel to commemorate the Dunkirk evacuation was forced to divert so Border Force could escort a migrant boat to Britain. The Telegraph has the story.
The fleet of 66 boats set sail from Ramsgate, Kent, to Dunkirk at 6am on Wednesday to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Operation Dynamo.
It was intended as a “poignant tribute to the bravery and sacrifice” of the Dunkirk evacuations, where 1,000 British pleasure boats were used in the rescue of more than 300,000 Allied soldiers from the Nazi advance.
But the commemorations were disrupted when Border Force and the French navy demanded that the flotilla be diverted to provide a one-nautical mile exclusion zone for a migrant boat.
The small boat, which had been launched from northern France, was being escorted across the Channel by the French navy and UK Border Force.
It comes as two migrants died on Wednesday attempting to cross the Channel in a boat packed with 80 people.
Wednesday was also estimated to be a record day for migrant crossings so far this year with more than 800 arrivals.
Marine traffic audio heard by the Telegraph revealed that the ‘Little Ships‘ were told: “There is a [French] warship on our head with a migrant [boat] close by. And we’ve been requested to give one nautical mile distance from that vessel, over.”
A French voice, believed to be from the French navy, was then heard saying: “Thank you, sir. Thank you very much.”
One observer said: “They have asked the British ships to get out of the way. It is one of the most important days in history and they are shoving them out of the way.”
The obvious question is why the small boat wasn’t being escorted back to France…
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Britain managed to keep out the extremely powerful German army during more than five years of war.
Now we can’t even stop people in rubber dinghies.
Just about sums it up.
Not ‘can’t’, won’t.
exactly
Not “can’t.”
Don’t WANT to.
Why do they need a 1 mile exclusion zone?
To be fair, there was a pooch. I feel for this doggy and its owner. Presumably the person isn’t a Muslim, then, or is it a bit like alcohol consumption and they’re flexible in bending the rules when it suits? Not sure, but this could be somebody’s emotional support/companion animal. I’ve always thought it excessive, the length of time the animals have to remain in quarantine, and I’m not sure of the rationale. Surely they can run all the necessary tests and get the results within a week?
”British taxpayers will be paying thousands of pounds for an asylum seeker’s dog to stay in the UK, it has been revealed.
The migrant’s German Shepherd crossed the channel in a small dinghy and reportedly needs to be kept isolated to prevent the spread of infectious diseases and for a full check-up.
A source said: “Border Force officials couldn’t believe their eyes but treated the animal with the same humanity they show any individual.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-taxpayers-dog-channel-crossing
Personally I would have taken it out of sight and shot it. The dog not the migrant but then…..
Anybody that would choose to kill a healthy, non-aggressive, helpless pet is a psychopath, pure and simple. So, congrats in outing yourself there.
Yes, I think we should have a national cull of dogs instead of badgers, starting with mandatory spaying, neutering, and muzzling in all public places, especially on public transport.
Cue the outrage.
Nothing gets in the way of Agenda 2030.
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I keep seeing ads from UNICEF asking for donations to help people displaced by the civil war in Sudan. The vast majority of these people will be Muslims, how much money are Muslims in Britain raising to help their fellow Muslims? They’re probably raising far more to supply weapons to Hamas, Islamic State etc.
None I suspect as if we think back to creating a memorial for some muslim it was taxpayers forced to fund it not the brotherhood.
Excellent comment mogs it’s a hideous situation could and should have been avoided and honestly I don’t see any way back.
Why didn’t they just turn the migrant boat back?
Surely the flotilla could have brought a few more of the economic migrants back; in the name of realism?🤔
Freeing up the RNLI to do the job that it exists to do.
So things are reversed this time, we move those who seek to commemorate the protection of these isles, and rub their faces in the ideal, by forcing them to make way for the invader.
You could not make it up could you
I’m sure most captains would have give the dinghies a tow
Why?
Because the Establishment has a “secret deal” with the EU / France that “we’ll take our fair share” of the criminal migrants the Globalists encouraged to flood into Europe.
For the sake of appearances, Two-Tier, just like Sunak, pretends he wants to stop them coming …. and Macron pretends he is trying.
It’s all just theatre.
The Little Ships should have just said,
“No, we are going straight on, full steam ahead!
GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR WAY!”
And they were singing, like Dad’s Army,
“Who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Muslim?
If you think we’re on the run?
We are the boys who will stop your little game.
We are the boys who will make you think again.
So, who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Muslim?
If you think Old England’s down?”
🙂