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[June Slater @juneslater17]

Talking to a French coastguard contact (Gus) today - his English not perfect but the point was clear:
So I looked it up he's right!
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Under UN Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and UNCLOS, the duty of a coastal state is to STOP overcrowded, unseaworthy vessels leaving its ports.
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If such a vessel is at sea and a French vessel is the first to it, the duty is to take it back to the nearest safe port - which is France.

It is NOT the duty of the UK to then take over the chaperoning of an unsuitable vessel across the Channel.

Stop them at the point of departure. Return them to France if intercepted by French assets. That's what maritime safety law actually says.
It's all in The UN document
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SOLAS Article 98 /Chapter V

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

PM Burnham is considering delaying a decision about when the government will increase defence spending until the autumn of next year in the hope that Britain’s economy improves. I’m sure Britain’s many enemies will give him the breathing space he requires to make up his mind. It’s not as if it’s a dangerous world.

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

Islamist @DillyHussain88 (DH) in Aug 2024 visited Afghanistan. He waxes lyrically about the Taliban, no women's rights, pork, alcohol, LGBT or betting.

Roshan @RmSalih (RS) Ed of 5Pillars: "I Do Not See Britain as Home, It Is the ‘Abode of Infidels.'" We live in the "pit of the kuffar... we should not feel comfortable here."

DH: You can "live in a Muslim bubble." He refers to during the American/British occupation "religious laxity, fully adopted western notions of freedom & women's rights.. Liked discos & clubs" & the "sexes mixed."

RS: "Muslims in Britain Should Withdraw Their Children from School, Especially the Girls

Robert Carter @Bob_cart124: "We need someone like the Taliban to come here & shut down education."

Islamo-fascism, zero integration, 5th Column, homophobic, misogynistic.

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

Call me a cynic - I reckon the Afghan illegal who broke into Britain, pretended to be a child, developed a porn addiction & was worried Allah wouldn't approve before he stabbed a boy, another man and killed Wayne Broadhurst might be pretending to be mental to game the system.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

Imagine if, on the anniversary of Hiroshima, Americans marched past Japanese communities waving American flags and denouncing Japan. Or if Britain chose the anniversary of Dresden to stage victory marches through London. We don’t. Those dates are treated with sensitivity because whatever your view of the wider war, the anniversary of mass civilian death is not the day to celebrate.
Yet on 7 October — the anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — demonstrators have deliberately chosen to march through London for the Palestinian cause.
They do it, simply, because they are utterly repugnant human beings

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

Red Ed the Eco-Loon Miliband strikes again

[Becky Argyle @ArgyleBecky]

Absolutely shocking & deeply discriminatory language from this Aberdeen school. Christmas cards are Christmas cards, they are part of our culture, traditions & celebrations. No school should erase, undermine or dictate which aspects of our culture we are allowed to celebrate.

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

If the definition of “Islamophobia” was not influenced by extremists, why has the government lied about destroying the records?

[Norman Brennan @NormanBrennan]

BREAKING NEWS! A Criminal with 169 Previous Convictions & released from Prison just days earlier wearing a Balaclava & driving a car on false plates Burgles & GBH’s a female; gets just 6 years & hey ho when released he will as Night follows Day rack up even MORE convictions👇🤷‍♂️🙄

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨BREAKING: 25 inflatable boats destined to be used to carry up to 1,700 illegal immigrants across the English Channel have been seized at East Midlands Airport, the National Crime Agency says

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

The inflatable boats are coming through the UK… and we are meant to believe that our authorities don’t know.

Theatre.

[Charlie Peters @CDP1882]

I went inside Hamas tunnels in Gaza. There is rubble above ground but terrorists have clean tiles and mattresses.

The IDF is discovering new tunnels. On the Oct 7 anniversary, they fear that Hamas is building new infrastructure for fresh attacks @GBNEWS

[Robert Abel @rj_abel]

How quiet has the Mandelson saga gone?

In March, Parliament was told the Cabinet Secretary’s review had been paused because the matter was with police.

Yet months later, where is the Met investigation?
No charge, no reported interview, no clearance, no conclusion.

Silence.

[Cllr George Madgwick @georgedmadgwick]

SHOCKING. Gosport was essentially under lockdown to allow migrants to arrive. We saw 149 undocumented migrants arrive in Gosport on Sunday and the police put the entire town of almost 80,000 residents under a Section 34 notice.

Local residents, many military veterans, were asked to produce ID simply to return home.

Reform UK will be looking into the legalities of this notice and requesting answers from the police of whether this was proportionate.

The fact an army of emergency workers was dispatched to assist illegal migrants, meanwhile local people were put under orders in their own homes is outrageous.

[June Slater @juneslater17]

Does this bother you?

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

At what point can we drop the pretence that we need mass migration for the economy?

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

A researcher has died, possibly from pneumonic plague after a lab accident — but experts say the disease is treatable and far less likely to spread than Covid-19

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

When Public Agencies Protect Themselves Instead of the Public.
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[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

Hostile indeed @acadofideas
Evasion, cover up, defiance and delusion to be added to that…

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

In Cheltenham today for the @cheltfestivals Lit Fest.
Won’t surprise anyone that I’m booked in to listen to @praddenkeefe talking about his extraordinary book London Falling!

A masterclass in exposing institutional failure and the brave, relentless pursuit of a family fighting for truth—a haunting echo of the exact same walls I face every day.
#nottinghaminquiry 💚💛