But you’d have to have the will to do more than just issue warnings. No way does the British government have that will.
Anyway, here’s one of the patrol ships, the HMS Severn.
Posted on 11/02/2025 7:54:53 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
A union representing British Border Force workers said on Friday that more than 120 staff who patrol Britain's waters, in "sometimes harrowing roles", plan to strike on November 14 to protest over pay and working conditions.
The majority of the UK's around 10,000 Border Force staff work in airports and ports across the country and overseas. The agency's website does not give a breakdown detailing how many are employed patrolling the country's waters.
Britain's Public and Commercial Services union said in a statement that the government began a review six years ago to address the need for standardisation of pay and roles, but despite lengthy talks the concerns of its members concerns have yet to be addressed.
A spokesperson for the UK's interior ministry said the government would continue talks with the union to resolve the dispute.
"We always have robust plans in place to minimise disruption and uphold UK border security, and that remains unchanged," the spokesperson said via email.
Workers carry out dangerous roles patrolling for smuggling or unauthorised entry into the UK, boarding vessels for inspection and responding to incidents, including small boats carrying asylum seekers, the PCS union said in its statement.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour government - trailing in opinion polls - has pledged to smash the gangs trafficking migrants into Britain on small boats, as Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party has made tackling illegal migration a major political battleground.
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I’d think the Royal Navy can take over, since they’re not really doing anything right now.
Do they still have a navy?
But you’d have to have the will to do more than just issue warnings. No way does the British government have that will.
Anyway, here’s one of the patrol ships, the HMS Severn.
Right. Even if Nigel Farage becomes PM, I doubt he'll do it. So far, he's all talk? I think he'll turn out to be just like Boris Johnson.
WORKING CONDITIONS???
DID THEY THINK THEY WERE ATTENDING A PROM?
There’s a British Border Force ?
There’s what the pasty white government types can do in a crisis - Strike!
The strike is probably being engineered by those in power, with the union’s submission. The goal is to allow thousands more illegals to enter.
Any Border Force who patrol Britain’s seas, along with the Royal Navy, Coastguard, Lifeboat and Rescue institutions, when they encounter alien invaders at sea are instructed to pick them up and transport them safely the rest of the way to dear old Britain. Perhaps if they all went on strike there would be fewer arrivals.
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