@Anon7127 Another sneaky slide of values shown here. By their own rules, a police officer on duty is incapable of being insulted. Now that Old Bill & Belinda indulge in twerking, openly siding with wrong ‘uns & turning blind eyes to the chanting of death threats, it has gone by the board.
@nilihus99124@PWestoff@RNLI We may have to wait 25 years until these secrets come out. There is something very dirty going on at present & I am ashamed that our own Gov is behaving in a such a deliberatly provocative way. Among the lies they peddle are ‘the French made me do it’ & ‘stop the gangs’. Bollocks
@PWestoff@RNLI This figure of 1.2% is over all 238 lifeboat stations. On the South Coast, the managers’ side hustle of people trafficking occupies well over 50%. Who looks after actual emergencies when RNLI crews are out sending false distress messages & running taxi services? Baywatch?
@PhilipProudfoot All in the eyes of the beholder. One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist. You have provided a good example here where the heroes of the RNLI are being misused by their bosses & led into people trafficking. Falsely declaring maritime emergencies is not a good look IMO
@John_EdwardsUK Good point, well put. I never heard of any official asking to see the paperwork relating to these vessels. If I sailed my own commercial boat into French waters, I would rightly be asked to show a folder full of certificates relating to insurance, competence, etc etc.
@MittensOff No, the game is not up. When (if) it gets to court, he can argue that an abandoned vessel in mid channel is subject to the rules of salvage. He can do with it as he pleases. The worst would be attempting to litter the seabed - £200 fine, if it happened, which it did not.
@TheConstit71705 I am glad the owner did the right thing by claiming damage. Now he can show us his paperwork for carrying out his commercial people smuggling operation. As a minimum, this would be commercial vessel insurance, competence certificate with commercial endorsement, insurance, owner’s
@RealDanGliebitz Utter & total bollocks. You are saying this ambulance, sitting quietly with no lights or sirens, was on an emergency call? A real one, not an RNLI-style fake emergency? I don’t believe you.
@WasAcop So the boat’s owner came forward to complain, did he? AFAIK, an abandoned boat in mid channel is not in the jurisdiction of Old Bill. This Tommo person has every right to claim it. If he also tried to remove a hazard to shipping, fair play to him.
@PhilipProudfoot ‘Terrorism’! Where do you get the words, sunshine? If you are talking about the lone French/RNLI/one-armed man who deliberately put himself in the firing line, this is exactly what Hamas did recently. Your argument sucks IMO.
@MasterMaliq At last you got something right! The key word here is ‘history’, as in the past, gone, moved on. Your gobby-cult on the other hand seems to be stuck firmly in the attitudes of the 9th century AD. Time to more on or move out?
@Paulrestore We are a nation of animal lovers. We reject barbaric treatment of domestic animals & had the best animal welfare regs anywhere. Then some smartarse lawyers acting for the death-cult found they could exploit ‘religious exemption’ rules to allow horrific torturing of animals. Why?
@Inevitablewest If the owner comes forward to complain, he will first have to pay an agreed salvage fee. Then he can answer questions concerning his competence certificate, commercial marine insurance, proof of lifesaving drills, provision of adequate lifesaving equipment etc etc.
@1ThinkNotFollow@andrewc44104127 The usual fine for littering the seabed would be a few hundred. We can manage that. He should be in line for a maritime award for removing a hazard to shipping in the sea lanes.
@optionshappybus@andrewc44104127@POTUS I think a pat on the back for removing a hazard to shipping would be appropriate. There must be a suitable maritime award available.
@andrewc44104127 Our very own Home Secretary said that a priority is to stop the people smuggling gangs. This man heeded the call & all he gets is abuse. Why?
@Robbie_Reasons I think we have heard quite enough declarations of emergencies, mainly false ones by the RNLI. The Home Sec has said that a priority is to defeat the people smuggling gangs. Well here we are, volunteers are doing just that. No way will the Gov actually act, they don’t want to.