Priti Patel’s plan to end Channel crossings in disarray as Navy threatens to ‘walk away’

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  1. Huh, they really dropped the ball here. You’re in the Navy for chrissake. No walking, you sail and at an apt time to breakout in song

    *… I’m sailing away*

    *Set an open course for the virgin sea*

  2. Fair play to them lives would be lost under panels plan.

    Here’s a mad idea. Create a legal mechanism where refugees can apply for refugee status. From Turkey or France, wherever.

    Then they won’t need to use the criminal gangs to get to England. Or is it only white refugees from Ukraine that should be allowed in? 🤔

  3. Listen to experts??

    That really isn’t in the Tory ethos at all. I mean, imaging someone actually knowing better than them?

    The sheer arrogance is staggering.

  4. Except proven incompetent since she got that job she better resign and disappear into oblivion. What a failure. PRobably the worst minister of the last hundred years? Lol

  5. I mean her plans down the shitter anyway cause without Bojo her time in the cabinet is over. All the Navy has to do is wait a month or two.

  6. I don’t think Patel counted on people not agreeing with her and seeing migrants as people. You would hope that even people who are not pro-migrant think they deserve better than being treated like dangerous criminals by a woman mad with power.

  7. Literally no one in the Royal Navy was ever onboard with this. We all operate under the law of armed conflict, so shooting some unarmed refugees was never going to happen, and under maritime law, we’re obliged to take survivors on board, look after them, and then drop them off at the safest port where the local government can offer them assistance. We’ll probably turn their boat into splinters once we take them onboard, but never with unarmed souls on board.

  8. We’re never going to achieve any measure of control over migration to the UK, are we? It’s nothing but constant increase every year until the end of time.

  9. I actually want out of this shit country….. let the immigrants come here on a dingy and I’ll return on the same dingy to Europe where I have a fucking future!!! what is wrong with these people are they blind . This is an island on its own now. It’s fucked I’m saving for a dingy to get me to France from the UK !!!

  10. This is Border forces job. The navy (and all the armed forces) are stretched enough, with the cuts defence always seems to get.

  11. As a kid I watched ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and, looking at the Scarecrow, I wondered how someone could talk without a brain.

    Then came Brexit, Boris Johnson and his government….

  12. Don’t worry, when the refugees relise what a mess the country’s in they will be crossing the Channel in the other direction by the droves.

  13. Are you telling me, that the My Little Pony of the Apocalypse had a really nasty idea that didn’t work and has backfired?

    I mean, it’s not like the entire party has form, is it?

    The entire lot need to be out on their ear and back to the dole queue where they belong.

    It’s time we had a cabinet where the combined number of brain cells is at least in double digits.

    We’ve tried employing self-serving fuckwits to run a country, and it’s not really working out.

    Time for something else.

  14. The armed forces can just threaten to “walk away” from political policies they don’t like? Seems like a very steep slippery slope. I don’t agree with the policy myself, but surely the military doesn’t get to pick and choose as long as what they’re asked is legal (even if it’s odious).

  15. She is the most detestable government minister I can think. She is responsible for many deaths of refugees and should be tried for mass murder at The Hague.

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