I’ll believe that it’s really about “rapes and murders” as soon as we see riots outside a white person’s house.
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Cost and risks of travelling to UK notwithstanding, I believe that dreadful things, like wars, famine, terrorist pressures in refugees’ homelands result in the push factor overriding the pull factor.
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But the UK government was asked if it wanted to remain part of the Dublin accord as part of Brexit negotiations, but they said no, because of course it meant (to them) that they wouldn’t be ‘keeping control’ of their borders. Given that, why should France agree ?
There have been a very small number of such incidents amongst around 100,000 asylum seekers in limbo awaiting a decision. If you look at the figures for the UK adult population for rape and sexual assault you will find around 160 reported cases per 100,000 and that doubles if you just include adult males. You can bet that if there had been 160 (or 320) cases of rape and sexual assault by assylum seekers in the last 12 months you would have heard about it. But it was a handful, so asylum seekers are on the whole a lot safer to be around than your average UK male.
Edit: I calculated the above on total asylum seekers rather than just adult males. There were actually only 65,000 adult males. I’ve tried to find statistics for asylum seekers but the Home Office doesn’t collect the data and some who have tried to show high levels of rape or sexual assault by asylum seekers have been including all people who identify as non British, of which there are many millions living in the UK legally.
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Bozo and Frosty strike again.
Indeed, such events do cause migration. But these events didn’t suddenly start in 2020 and accelerate at such a rate. It was the realisation amongst assylum seekers, encouraged by smugglers, that the UK government couldn’t now just return them without any processing (although this actually rarely happened even before) and that if they could just put one foot on UK soil, no matter how, they may have a good chance of staying either by going through the asylum process or just disappearing.
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Really!
If that were actually happening surely those ‘locals’ would have made sure their film made national news.
Pub talk surely.
No sadly not, one of my contractors has a unit on the airport and he witnessed a lot of boats stored there. The film of the later boats being loaded on lorries and returning to France hasn’t made it onto mainstream news and one can only add conjecture as to why not.
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Have you personally seen such film?
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I think that this one falls completely into “without proof it’s bollocks” territory.
As I said - to whom would they be returned?
I mean, it’s not as if the gangs put a label on saying “If found, return to A. S. Muggler, 101 route du Napoleon, Calais” is it?
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Closest I can find, obviously can be faked with Ai but what do others think?
To add fuel to the conspiracy theorists fire I found an FOI request covering exactly this question from August last year. Needless to say, it was declined.
I think it proves nothing except the abysmal quality (and very tiny OB motors) of the boats involved and that some of them were loaded onto a lorry at Dover.
That, in itself is quite reasonable - they are likely stored at or near the port and if you wanted to dispose of them putting them on a lorry is rather what you’d expect as they are quite large items.
We do not see said lorry getting on a ferry, just driving around the port a bit. There are many jumps in the footage so there is no certainty it is being presented in the order it was filmed and the quality so terrible it’s hard to see what is going on most of the time.
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There is a GB news clip which makes a slightly different claim which is that French boats are turning up to recover the dinghies - which also does not pass the sniff test unless it is the smuggling gangs doing so.
Might as well add a bit more to the conspiracy theory.
If either of those two told me it was raining I’d go outside to check.
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I’d be getting the sunscreen out
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Don’t wear sunscreen in the first place, blocks vitamin D activation.
A bit less vitamin D or increased risk of melanoma, it’s a tough call.
I’ll be the first to admit that I know nothing of the effect of sunscreen on vitamin D but you need to get a long way into the Google search results to find anything that says there’s any significant impact on vitamin D from sunscreen use.
AHH the great God Google, may as well just ask Google everything and do away with the SF.
As someone who had to wear sunscreen throughout my life or get burnt to a crisp really quickly and painfully that all changed when I went Ketogenic diet low carbohydrate and removed seed oils from my food intake. Now as an Engineer I should have only changed 1 thing at a time but we are where we are. I can not only tolerate the sun and actually produce melanin and tan. (Obviously not going stupid in the sun) This has been noted by other keto low carb people. Three summers in France no sunscreen, ok it’s not Australia but a huge difference to me not being slathered in greasy crap.
Not everything can be explained by Google or any other Ai service.
You’re right to a point, but when those Google results are links to reputable specialists in the field then I’m content to take that over anecdote or links from the more “out there” corners of the internet.
I still find it amazing that the UK, alleged to be one of the most digitally developed economies, still has a massive parallel economy fuelled by “cash payments”. Successive UK governments seem to have been incapable (or unwilling) to seriously grab the bull by the horns and do something about it.
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