A slashed hull is a start. A removal after landing is the finish. Britain skips the finish.
Watch: Police Intercepting Smuggler Boat Bound For Britain Attacked by Migrants
Three dozen men carried a dinghy to the Channel and threw rocks at French police. Britain used to pay Paris to watch.
Summary
- Breitbart reports UK Border Security Command released aerial video of about 36 migrants carrying an inflatable to the Channel and attacking French officers who moved to stop the launch.
- Migrants scuffled and threw what appeared to be rocks. Officers used PAVA spray, reinforcements arrived in a 4x4, and a policeman slashed the boat so it could not float.
- The clip is being used to show France acting after a £600 million British payment, following earlier Tory footage of French police standing idle during a launch.
- Conservatives note the 12-month intercept rate is still about one third, so most who try the crossing still land and almost none are later removed.
Commentary
A dockworker in Dover still tastes salt and diesel and watches another dinghy become a hotel invoice. He does not throw rocks at police. He throws a time card into a slot.
That is the gap. Honest men wait behind a passport window. The beach crew waits for a slack officer and a cheap hull. A knife in the rubber is the first adult act in the tape.
Ask every taxpayer who funded the £600 million: if one third is a 'success,' what do you call the two thirds who still sleep in Kent?
Comments
Rocks at cops are not asylum. They are a riot with a life vest.
If almost none who land are removed, the gamble stays rational. Change the payoff.
A country that pays another country £600 million to police a beach should demand a catch rate, not a clip.
NGOs that sue the knife in the rubber are the other crew. Name the funders.
I do not get to throw gravel at the foreman and still collect the room. Neither should a beach launch.
One third intercepted is a brochure. Two thirds landed is the school intake.
Traffickers price the risk. A sure hotel on the far shore is the product.
Breitbart printed 36 men, PAVA, the slash, and the one-third catch. Keep the tape.
Cut the boats. Remove the landings. Stop paying for theater.