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>> My bet is that an island is easier to defend from mass migration Not currently if you look at the boats crossing the channel.
by gadders 4y ago
>> My bet is that an island is easier to defend from mass migration
Not currently if you look at the boats crossing the channel.
- pjc50 4y agoThe argument, rarely said explicitly except by talk radio hosts, is that the navy will be deployed to either mass murder them directly or to hole their boats and leave them to drown. As happens in the Mediterranean. (This is obviously a crime, so special legislation will be enacted to let the state murder undesirables)
- gadders 4y agoAt the moment, the French navy shadows them into british waters, and then the RNLI provides a taxi to shore for them. They then manage to remain in the UK indefinitely. And the people smugglers make about £5k per person for the migrants.
- djohnston 4y agoThat's only because things aren't serious yet. If there were dedicated political will the channel could be handily sealed off, and it's great that we aren't in such a dire place yet but were it to arise those boats would never make it.