DJE
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I've just noticed the above headline in last Saturday's Times that I had left on the boat. The just of the story is here:
Leaky borders might mean boat licences
Leaky borders might mean boat licences
"Boat licensing plan to cut migrant traffic."
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CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
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Is it for "leaky borders" or to raise more taxes???
pvb
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Oh, yes, that'd be really effective against foreign people-smugglers, wouldn't it?
johnalison
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I think that this comes close to being a late April 1st joke. All it would do would create a tax on all sailors and boaters not involved in people smuggling.
pvb
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But the "authorities" would be seen to be doing something...
Blue Sunray
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Already covered at some length:
Compulsory UK licensing for boat owners to reduce illegal immigrants
Compulsory UK licensing for boat owners to reduce illegal immigrants
Slowboat35
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When the illegal immigration we're suffering from is almost entirely based on rubber dinghys...
Does the gumment really imagine it's feasable to compulsorily licence or record the sales (inc. secondhand) of all rubber boats?
That utterly nuts! It's as practical as licencing bicycles or blimmin cats!
Does the gumment really imagine it's feasable to compulsorily licence or record the sales (inc. secondhand) of all rubber boats?
That utterly nuts! It's as practical as licencing bicycles or blimmin cats!
DJE
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So much for the search facility. But it seems I'm not the only one who hasn't seen it.
Sailfree
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Thead on this started by Deleted User in MoBo forum.
Birdseye
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Neither. Its a non boating civil servants wet dream. Doesnt matter that it cant work / wont work, he / she /it has been asked for a solution to a minor problem and has come up with a typical civil service idea. Given the millions of unliceneced acras on our roads not to mention the millions of illegals and all the untraced frauds etc, it does look likely that HMG could enforce this doesnt it?
Giblets
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Has anyone told the French of this plan which is where most immigrant boats come from?
GHA
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Do the boats come from France? Plenty UK criminal people smugglers, horrible people
People-smugglers posting deflated boats to France from the UK
UK boat suppliers warned to be on alert for people smugglers
awol
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I really like the idea of getting a RIB into a suitcase! Press reports - don't you love them?Do the boats come from France? Plenty UK criminal people smugglers, horrible people
People-smugglers posting deflated boats to France from the UK
UK boat suppliers warned to be on alert for people smugglers
Stemar
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Never get ignorance get in the way of a good story
GHA
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Do you think it's not happening and the National Crime Agency are telling lies?
NCA issues warning to maritime industry over organised crime links to small boats
Stemar
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I was referring to the idea of a RIB fitting in a suitcase, and the generally poor accuracy of newspapers. I'm well aware of the problems of people trafficking and the use of small, often dangerously inadequate boats. I've every sympathy for the poor sods who are lead to believe the streets here are paved with gold and everyone's given a house and money on arrival, so they hock themselves to a criminal, but would have no objection at all to "creative" solutions being found to stop traffickers.
oldgit
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Where on earth would that have come from ?
Obviously all those free copies of the Mail and the Express, once found on the seat of your flight to the "Sun" complete with click bait articles , are now being sent to the beaches of Calais and Boulogne ?
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Stemar
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The traffickers who are drumming up business.
Sometimes it's "only" tell 'm how wonderful everything is in the UK and we can get you there for only $20,000. You'll make that in a couple of months. Putting them into a dodgy inflatable at Calais and pointing them north is only the last part of the journey.
Other times it's a guaranteed job modelling or whatever. That turns out to be the kind of modelling I used to see advertised in phone boxes - with no pay because you owe us money and don't even think of running because we know where your family live and you wouldn't want them to have any trouble, would you?