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Mega dinghy carries record 165 migrants to UK
BBC News ^ | July 24, 2026 | Joshua Askew

Posted on 07/24/2026 6:24:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

A record 165 migrants reached the UK in a single boat, the Home Office has confirmed.

The number broke the previous record from July, when 128 crossed the Channel from France in one vessel.

Border Security Command was pictured towing a mega dinghy - estimated to be the same size as a standard bus at 13m (42ft) long - when it arrived in Dover on Thursday afternoon.

A Home Office spokesperson said the crossing served as a "stark reminder that criminal gangs have no regard for the safety of those they claim to help".

"The reality is clear and lives are being lost in the Channel," they added.

A total of 162 people died in the busy waterway between 2018 and 2025, according to the University of Oxford's Migration Observatory.

This rises to 257 when considering other migration-related deaths in the area, such as accidents involving people trying to board lorries bound for the UK, it added.

Care4Calais said the route was becoming more dangerous because of the increasing numbers of people per boat.

"The UK and French governments have spent years focusing on border security and enforcement, yet all they've achieved is to make Channel crossings more and more dangerous," said Sydney Sopher from the refugee charity.

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


TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: barbarianinvasion; barbarians; campofthesaints
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1 posted on 07/24/2026 6:24:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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“The reality is clear and lives are being lost in the Channel,” they added.

The reality is you are being invaded by people who want to kill you and you’re helping them. I hate effing suicidal idiots.


2 posted on 07/24/2026 6:27:53 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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I wish they could kill only themselves, but they won’t.

They’re more like the guards at Jonestown.


3 posted on 07/24/2026 6:32:18 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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The boats would be strafed in a sane world...


4 posted on 07/24/2026 6:36:52 PM PDT by drwoof
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It would stop immediately if they used the invaders boats as target practice and promised more if they persist. Problem solved.


5 posted on 07/24/2026 6:39:10 PM PDT by Gasshog (s'lfkgjsl)
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6 posted on 07/24/2026 6:41:30 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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They should have had one of those mega dinghies when they were evacuating the beaches of Dunkirk.


7 posted on 07/24/2026 6:47:45 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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The pic looks like it is all guys too, likely a few rapists in that bunch.


8 posted on 07/24/2026 6:47:57 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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Take a page out of the Iranian Islamofacists. Put mines in the Channel.

Heck, put mines in the Channel shaped like large pigs. The invaders might just turn around.


9 posted on 07/24/2026 6:56:37 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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“The pic looks like it is all guys too, likely a few rapists in that bunch.”

At this point the UK is so suicidal that it makes no sense to risk the lives of their women and children, since they’ll soon be flown-in, at British Taxpayer expense of course. And, if some are rapists, so much the better, as that seems to attract College-Educated Women to their side.


10 posted on 07/24/2026 7:07:42 PM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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One ringy dingy, two ringy dingys. Lily Tomlin.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JUQviOxpGUA


11 posted on 07/24/2026 7:41:25 PM PDT 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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They don’t really have an operational Navy, no matter what they claim, and if they did (and when they did in the recent past) they refused to use it to stop the ongoing invasion at all. They might as well not have a Navy.


12 posted on 07/24/2026 7:52:47 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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SINK THE GOD DAMNED BOATS WITH ALL ON BOARD. This is an invasion by violent trash who want to kill and rape Europeans.


13 posted on 07/24/2026 7:56:43 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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The reality is you are being invaded by people who want to kill you and you’re helping them. I hate effing suicidal idiots.


14 posted on 07/24/2026 8:00:54 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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538 illegal migrants have crossed the English Channel in the 5 days since @AndyBurnham took power.

Our new Prime Minister still hasn’t mentioned immigration once. pic.twitter.com/zSHM7bVKwJ— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) July 24, 2026


15 posted on 07/25/2026 12:07:11 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Migrants men are now using mega dinghies to cross the English Channel that can carry up to 165 fighting age men. Things are ramping up and the British government doesn’t do anything. They will be using ships next. pic.twitter.com/Yq5FPPAxEE— HJB News (@HJB_News__) July 24, 2026


16 posted on 07/25/2026 12:26:31 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Kinda makes you want to suggest no fault rape defense against underemployed liberal white women. They seem to have voted for it thinking they would get a payout for having a high social credit score. But ma’am you already got your free sex. You can’t expect us to pay you for the service you axed for.


17 posted on 07/25/2026 12:59:26 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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So all the Germans needed to do is have large dinghies and the invasion coild have happened?😂😎

How far England has fallen


18 posted on 07/25/2026 4:10:04 AM PDT by blitz128
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It’s not rape if you are a Muslim, aloha snackbar 😎


19 posted on 07/25/2026 4:11:31 AM PDT by blitz128
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Several reports I have seen suppprt your claims.
Not that it matters but the British may not have even one serviceable submarine 🤔


20 posted on 07/25/2026 4:13:08 AM PDT by blitz128
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