Last night Priti Patel announced perhaps the most inhuman act of all this Government’s many inhuman acts against innocent refugees.
Border Force, she said, will in future be using ‘pushbacks’ against refugees at sea in the English Channel. That means they will have the right to use their ships to force people in small boats and dinghies to turn back towards France.
This morning, a Conservative MP even suggested the Royal Navy might be deployed.
These small boats are overloaded with men, women and children, and not infrequently in danger of sinking. Simply rescuing them can be risky; to use a large, powerful ship to force them backwards is catastrophically dangerous. In the Mediterranean sea, people have drowned as a result.
Additionally there is a risk that, driven by utter desperation, one of these people might in be induced to jump in the sea.
That is one of the reasons that pushbacks are not allowed by international maritime law. To make it OK for the UK to carry them out, Patel has had to tell Government officials to rewrite the way she “interprets” that law.
To hear that our government is planning to tell British Border Force officers to use tactics deemed illegal in many other countries would be deeply shocking and upsetting at any time.
PeKaatjeAnkeveen, North Holland Netherlands6,334 posts
tomcatty: Last night Priti Patel announced perhaps the most inhuman act of all this Government’s many inhuman acts against innocent refugees.
Border Force, she said, will in future be using ‘pushbacks’ against refugees at sea in the English Channel. That means they will have the right to use their ships to force people in small boats and dinghies to turn back towards France.
This morning, a Conservative MP even suggested the Royal Navy might be deployed.
These small boats are overloaded with men, women and children, and not infrequently in danger of sinking. Simply rescuing them can be risky; to use a large, powerful ship to force them backwards is catastrophically dangerous. In the Mediterranean sea, people have drowned as a result.
Additionally there is a risk that, driven by utter desperation, one of these people might in be induced to jump in the sea.
That is one of the reasons that pushbacks are not allowed by international maritime law. To make it OK for the UK to carry them out, Patel has had to tell Government officials to rewrite the way she “interprets” that law.
To hear that our government is planning to tell British Border Force officers to use tactics deemed illegal in many other countries would be deeply shocking and upsetting at any time.
Innocent refugees? They come from France, their life is not in danger and if they coöperate they can have a good life in France, so they're not refugees, they just want to go to the country where they can get the most money! The UK government is totally right and more countries should do this. As soon as the fugs put foot on European ground, their life isn't in danger anymore, and then it's to the EU-government to spread them fairly over all countries. But east-European countries don't coöperate and prefer a fine from the EU-government instead. In the mean time the west European countries have to solve the problem. and each day there are coming more 'fugs', most of them ain't even in danger, never were, never will be, but they only come for the money. Everyone that can return safely to their own country has to be send back. The war in Syria is over, so a lot of people can return, taking the knowledge from things they learned here with them and help their own country to be a better place to live than it was before. The war against the Taliban is over, the Taliban won, live with it, but no, the Netherlands want to evacuate 22.000 people from Afghanistan. WTF. We have no space, not enough houses, and the people are sick and tired of all the fugs living here.
All the more so now that international travel has taken a pummeling. And it would fit with beautifying Britain. If the pointless British farms become meadows - a boon to domestic tourism - whilst productive farms open up abroad then everyone's a winner.
And obviously corpses washing up on the beach is bad for the British tourist industry. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a man crossing the sea on a punctured lilo.
And as for scrounging that's not the main reason they come here. The English language is the main reason. The English language followed by the ease of opening a kebab shop in England.
ChesneyChrist: All the more so now that international travel has taken a pummeling. And it would fit with beautifying Britain. If the pointless British farms become meadows - a boon to domestic tourism - whilst productive farms open up abroad then everyone's a winner.
The intelligent ones get plum jobs in television and elsewhere, because the libertards are frightened of upsetting the upper middle classes who think ordinary working people should subsidise them.
tomcatty: I like the ordinary French people, my cleaner is French, but EEC politicians are determined to punish us in everyway for Brexit, .
We got the D.U.P. threatening to collapse Stormont here if they don't get their own way, so expecting a bit of disruption in the comings days and weeks.. I hope I can still get my continental beers anyway...
PeKaatje: France is a lovely country, but it's a pity what kind of people live there.
We should go after the trafficers who charge there people a small fortune to cross the worlds busiest shipping lane in a boat I wouldn't use in a swimming pool.
They rely on our coastguards rescuing them and then sneer behind their hands at our stupidity
PeKaatjeAnkeveen, North Holland Netherlands6,334 posts
there is an area for black people, it's called Africa, send them all to that area. Islamism and christianity in one community is asking for problems. Somehow the western world is befriended with Saudi Arabia, a salafistic country, only because of the oil. They know we need the oil, but what happens when everybody is driving an electric car and we are no longer dependant of these OPEC countries? Then hell breaks loose,and because they already have sended a lot of their people to us, it's going to be a harsh battle.
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Border Force, she said, will in future be using ‘pushbacks’ against refugees at sea in the English Channel. That means they will have the right to use their ships to force people in small boats and dinghies to turn back towards France.
This morning, a Conservative MP even suggested the Royal Navy might be deployed.
These small boats are overloaded with men, women and children, and not infrequently in danger of sinking. Simply rescuing them can be risky; to use a large, powerful ship to force them backwards is catastrophically dangerous. In the Mediterranean sea, people have drowned as a result.
Additionally there is a risk that, driven by utter desperation, one of these people might in be induced to jump in the sea.
That is one of the reasons that pushbacks are not allowed by international maritime law. To make it OK for the UK to carry them out, Patel has had to tell Government officials to rewrite the way she “interprets” that law.
To hear that our government is planning to tell British Border Force officers to use tactics deemed illegal in many other countries would be deeply shocking and upsetting at any time.