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Britain braces for biggest surge of small boats so far this year as hundreds make their way across the Channel
GB News ^ | 2/25/2026 | Mark White

Posted on 02/25/2026 3:51:28 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Almost 600 small boat migrants crossed the English Channel on Wednesday, the biggest one-day surge this year.

GB News provisional figures reveal 590 migrants were taken to the Kent port of Ramsgate by Border Force vessels and lifeboats throughout the course of day.

Just after 4.30pm, the Border Force vessel Volunteer arrived at the port with a final group of 56 migrants.

However, with good weather likely to continue into this evening, Border Force patrols are on standby for more possible crossings in the hours ahead.

Such a large surge is unusual for this early in the year, and is normally only seen after the winter months.

Before today, the biggest number of arrivals on a single day this year was 322, who made the crossing in five boats on February 9.

Today's arrivals are likely to take the total so far in 2026 to well over 2,000 - higher than the totals at this point in 2024 and 2025.

GB News can also reveal that more than 4,500 migrants are currently in the make-shift camps around Calais and Dunkirk, waiting for their turn to make the illegal crossing.

(Excerpt) Read more at gbnews.com ...


TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britanistan; restorebritain

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1 posted on 02/25/2026 3:51:28 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Hey, Brits! Just build a bridge.

Your destruction will go faster…

2 posted on 02/25/2026 3:53:10 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Flycatcher

Dunkirk redux?


3 posted on 02/25/2026 3:54:45 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MinorityRepublican

That’s an invasion.


4 posted on 02/25/2026 3:57:10 PM PST by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Flycatcher

Um they built the Chunnel. Surprised they don’t just give them train tickets. They’ll be in London in a flash. I mean they don’t turn these boat invaders away right? Or better yet fly them in. I think that was one tactic Brandon used a bit during his uh Presidency.


5 posted on 02/25/2026 3:58:08 PM PST by xp38
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Dunkirk redux?

Yes. In a sadly perverse way.

6 posted on 02/25/2026 3:58:12 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: MinorityRepublican; All

Queue Nelson: “Ha, Ha “


7 posted on 02/25/2026 4:00:10 PM PST by A strike (GB,F,D : "Let's you and him fight" u.s,russia)
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To: MinorityRepublican

For f’s sake what will it take


8 posted on 02/25/2026 4:03:16 PM PST by gibsonguy
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Surprised they don’t just give them train tickets.

France will be happy to help out with that. Perhaps, they'll cover the coat of the train tickets to London.

9 posted on 02/25/2026 4:11:05 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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So all these boat migrants are coming from France?

What does the UK have that France doesn’t?


10 posted on 02/25/2026 4:12:31 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They brought it upon themselves. They rolled over to Islam, now Islam is rolling over them.


11 posted on 02/25/2026 4:13:52 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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Give everyone an old 303 and tons of ammo , for target practice


12 posted on 02/25/2026 4:16:43 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Flycatcher

Brits need to wake up ...


13 posted on 02/25/2026 4:17:21 PM PST by GOPJ (Trump's a Rorschach: for good or ill people see thier hidden selves in him. Protector? Bully? Savior)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Small boats”. How small? Some may already be on the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06ORI-05bKI&list=RD06ORI-05bKI&start_radio=1


14 posted on 02/25/2026 4:21:21 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: gibsonguy

It will take what Trump did with the drug boats.


15 posted on 02/25/2026 4:22:55 PM PST by Truthsearcher
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To: Flavious_Maximus
What does the UK have that France doesn’t?

Benefits.

16 posted on 02/25/2026 4:23:15 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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17 posted on 02/25/2026 4:24:26 PM PST by Allegra (We will not be emotionally blackmailed into backing off what we voted for. )
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This is simply absurd.

The Brit navy could shut this down in a matter of days if they want to.

They don’s want to stop the flow illegals into the UK


18 posted on 02/25/2026 4:24:48 PM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: MinorityRepublican

590 new Englishmen.


19 posted on 02/25/2026 4:27:12 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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Brits had no problems killing other european whites in prior wars.

Now they are being invaded and cant stop shitty little boats of low iq brown invaders.


20 posted on 02/25/2026 4:29:15 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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