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UK coastline creates opportunities for smugglers
BBC News ^ | 30 October 2025 | Alex Bish

Posted on 11/01/2025 10:12:03 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The extent of the UK coastline and remoteness of some of the locations where small vessels can arrive creates opportunities for smugglers of goods and people.

That's according to an inspection carried out by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI).

The findings came just days after a previous border watchdog, John Vine, warned BBC South East that smuggling people and drugs into the UK using yachts was a real threat.

The Home Office said work is already underway to address several of the concerns raised.

The inspection was released under the new Chief Inspector, John Tuckett, but was carried out when his predecessor David Bolt was in post.

It examined Border Force's approach to protecting the UK border from threats in general maritime (GM).

The report noted there was evidence of vessels such as yachts and fishing boats being used by migrants to enter the UK clandestinely.

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1 posted on 11/01/2025 10:12:03 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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2 posted on 11/01/2025 10:15:21 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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The extent of the UK coastline and remoteness of some of the locations where small vessels can arrive creates opportunities for smugglers of goods and people.

It's just amazing that nobody ever figured this out in all the centuries that people have been sailing along those coasts.

3 posted on 11/01/2025 10:16:20 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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The English have become particularily dense these days.


4 posted on 11/01/2025 10:19:10 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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The Muzzies have known this for a while. It’s one of the ways they’ve been smuggling firearms and other weapons for their jihadist army in the UK.


5 posted on 11/01/2025 10:30:44 AM PDT by Ajnin (Don't be a pansy, embrace the fireball.)
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Apparently they’re completely ignorant of their own history too, or at least Chief Inspector Tuckett is.


6 posted on 11/01/2025 10:33:28 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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From Winston Churchill’s speech in the House of Commons on 4 June 1940:

...we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

^^^^

He is surely spinning in his grave.

May God save Great Britain.


7 posted on 11/01/2025 10:59:14 AM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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Yeah. All because they didn’t want to speak German lol


8 posted on 11/01/2025 11:02:22 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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If the globalists can smuggle in hordes of illegal aliens, the native Brits ought to be able to smuggle in hordes of firearms and explosives enough to make a difference in the planned outcome.


9 posted on 11/01/2025 12:03:19 PM PDT by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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Did they ever clear the pirates out of Penzance?


10 posted on 11/01/2025 2:07:50 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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A history of smuggling in 18th Century Cornwall
Walking through History Cornwall | 46:53 | Trisha | 324 subscribers | 101,789 views | October 18, 2017
Walking through History Cornwall | 46:53 | Trisha | 324 subscribers | 101,789 views | October 18, 2017

11 posted on 11/01/2025 2:34:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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