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  • Small boat arrivals top 800 at start of May

    06/06/2026 3:44:34 PM PDT · 8 of 8
    David Hunter to Spktyr
    Didn’t say the people had to be on the boats. We stop smugglers and illegal immigrants all the time on the seas and take them off their boats, then sink the now abandoned boat as a hazard to navigation. The Royal Navy could actually do that just fine; it is long accepted international practice.

    What would be the point of doing that? The boats are all confiscated when they arrive on the English coast. They cannot be used again. Taking the illegal immigrants off the boats at sea and sinking the inflatable rubber dinghies (which won't actually sink and could get caught up in the propellers of ships etc) wouldn't change anything. The people removed from the boats by the Navy would have to be taken to England where they would claim political asylum (as we don't have permission to take them back to France), so the problem would be unaffected.

    The British authorities have been seizing the boats for years. They are cheap and nasty mass-produced rubber dinghies. They are expendable and the international people-smuggling gangs can always get more of them.

    If it were up to me, I would arrest the refugees that arrive and put them in secure detention camps (not hotels, as is the current practice). Those that have no reasonable political asylum claim should then be swiftly deported.

    When Britain was a member of the EU it had the legal right to deport all of these boat people back to France etc. However, the previous Conservative government of that time utterly failed to make proper use of that right.

    The problem is the French government. They were given £1.6 billion since 2018 by the British government for extra policing along the coast and drone surveillance etc to stop these boats, but they keep coming. £476 million was given to them for this purpose since 2023. They are still pissed off with us over Brexit and allowing illegal immigrants to go to the UK is a win for them as it means they don't have to support/process them.

    And as much as you mock Reform, how, exactly, would it have been worse than what an unchecked Labour has made of the UK?

    Labour are useless because they are simply not ruthless enough. Starmer could force through changes with his huge parliamentary majority, but he wimps out when his backbenchers rebel. For example, they have failed to clamp down on benefits designed to secure the votes of pensioners (many of whom are wealthy) and on people who don't work but just have numerous kids for the extra child tax credits. However, Labour has only been in power for under 2 years, whereas the last Conservative government was in office for over 14 years and so it has to accept responsibility for a lot of the current mess.

    Reform is basically just a protest vote. Most of their candidates are newbies with zero experience of public office and zero chance of getting into power on their own merits (unless they are riding a wave of stirred-up populist anger). The only positive of them is that if the two major political parties feel they are going to lose a lot of seats to Reform they will toughen up their policies in the run up to the next General Election and stop the piss-takers (career welfare claimants, bogus political asylum seekers, tax-dodging corporations et al.).

  • Small boat arrivals top 800 at start of May

    06/03/2026 10:18:54 AM PDT · 6 of 8
    David Hunter to Spktyr
    Could have voted Reform in the last election. They were *right there* - but nooooo, vote Labour, they won’t do what they did pre-Thatcher! Wait, why are they doing what they did pre-Thatcher?

    Reform is not a serious political party. It has put up some shockingly ignorant and poorly educated candidates. It is basically just a vehicle for Nigel Farage to become Prime Minister. By the way, he rarely bothers to turn up to his MP's surgeries in his deprived Clacton constituency to listen to the problems of his constituents. Clacton contains the village of Jaywick, which was named the worst place for poverty in the UK for several years running. Basically, the people there are miserable and are looking for scapegoats (illegal immigrants and foreigners in general) to lash out at and Farage is an expert at using that sort of simmering anger to gain political office.

    A simpler method would be to just deploy the Royal Navy to turn the boats back or sink them.

    Putting aside basic morality, the British government has to adhere to international law. The deliberate sinking of boats full of illegal immigrants would violate a plethora of treaties and agreements that were agreed over decades, including:

    Article 98 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

    The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea

    The International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue

    The European Convention on Human Rights

    Article 31 of the 1951 Refugee Convention

    Article 4 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions

    Britain would be sanctioned by the United Nations and prosecuted by the European Court of Human Rights and by the International Criminal Court if it were to sink those boats.

  • Small boat arrivals top 800 at start of May

    05/07/2026 1:35:21 PM PDT · 4 of 8
    David Hunter to Spktyr

    The last Conservative government was just as hopeless at dealing with the small boats illegal immigration crisis. At one point, Conservative Home Secretary Priti Patel had a discussion with Home Office colleagues where the idea of using wave machines to discourage small boat crossings was put forward!

  • Migration mayhem as 360 small boat migrants land in just one day

    05/06/2026 6:37:44 PM PDT · 32 of 32
    David Hunter to hanamizu
    "And the question has to be, why? Why is it politically untenable to stop an invasion of military-aged men entering the country illegally?"

    Because a lot of British people are bleeding heart liberals who simply cannot see the big picture.

    "But that also appears to be politically untenable."

    Well, the Home Office is very slow and inefficient and there are a lot of enterprising Human Rights lawyers doing their best to stop deportations.

  • Keir Starmer's failure to stop the boats has doomed Labour

    05/06/2026 6:29:29 PM PDT · 21 of 21
    David Hunter to bobbo666
    "Seize the boats. Keep them unless the owner shows up physically in England and presents proof of ownership and of the boat’s theft. Otherwise, pi$$ off.

    They will run out of boats."

    The British authorities have been seizing the boats for years. They are cheap and nasty mass-produced rubber dinghies. The boats are expendable and the international people-smuggling gangs can always get more of them.

    You're right that the French authorities are complicit. The French government was given £1.6 billion since 2018 by the British government for extra policing along the coast and drone surveillance etc to stop these boats, but they have made little difference to the problem. £476 million was given to them for this purpose since 2023.

  • Migration mayhem as 360 small boat migrants land in just one day

    05/06/2026 6:10:14 PM PDT · 30 of 32
    David Hunter to Jim Noble
    "When they get "processed", what happens then?"

    If they are believed to have a serious claim for political asylum they are given a hotel room to stay in at the taxpayers' expense. If they are clearly just economic migrants from a peaceful country they are sent to an immigrant detention centre instead. But a huge number of them cannot be put into the latter group until much later and after considerable expense.

  • Migration mayhem as 360 small boat migrants land in just one day

    05/06/2026 6:00:26 PM PDT · 29 of 32
    David Hunter to hanamizu
    "In 1939 the RN and RAF were able to keep the Nazis from invading. In 1982 the RN was able to repel Argentine invaders from the Falklands, thousands of miles away. And now in 2026, the UK is unable to defend itself from an invasion by rubber boats."

    The Royal Navy and RAF are not involved in this matter. The British government could give the former the order to turn back these boats at sea, but inevitably a lot of refugees would die as a direct result of that action. That would be politically untenable for a Labour or a Conservative UK government.

    If it were up to me, I would arrest the refugees that arrive and put them in secure detention camps (not hotels, as is the current practice). Those that have no reasonable political asylum claim should then be swiftly deported.

    When Britain was a member of the EU it had the legal right to deport all of these boat people back to France etc. Although, the previous Conservative government of that time utterly failed to make proper use of that right.

  • A new giant Ukrainian cruise missile is rumored to carry a 1,000-kg warhead for strikes 1,800 miles deep inside Russia

    09/02/2025 10:17:26 AM PDT · 75 of 75
    David Hunter to roadcat
    'Weren't a lot of weapons for the USSR developed and built in industrial Ukraine? Those factories and experts remained after the breakup of the USSR.'

    Yes, Ukraine made several of the USSR's best ICBMs. Including the R-36M (SS-18 'Satan') and the silo and rail-based RT-23 (SS-24 'Scalpel'). After the USSR collapsed and Ukraine left, Russia lacked the necessary spare parts and technical personnel to service these missiles effectively. This spurred them to develop replacement systems, such as the RS-28 Sarmat (SS-18 'Satan' II).

    In 2010 the Obama administration (at the behest of the Kremlin) convinced Ukraine to give up all of their SRBMs (Tochka and Scud missiles) in exchange for economic assistance. I believe the line Putin gave them at the time was that if Ukraine's ability to destroy Moscow was removed then Putin would no longer be opposed to them joining NATO.

    Of course, once their deterrent against invasion was gone it was only four years until Russia started invading. The salt in the wound is that half of those missiles weren't even destroyed, they were given to Russia and have doubtless been used against Ukraine!

  • Czech Initiative to Deliver 1.8 Million Shells to Ukraine by Year-End

    09/02/2025 9:36:25 AM PDT · 29 of 29
    David Hunter to Owen
    'With a US goal of 100K rounds of artillery (not yet clearly met), this 1.8 million from Czech source looks . . . absurd?'

    The vast majority of those 1.8 million 155 mm artillery shells were not made in the Czech Republic. The Czechs have set up a network to buy them from all around the world. For example, they bought a large number of them from the stockpiles maintained by South Africa and South Korea.

  • Ukrainians have lost faith in Zelensky

    07/26/2025 8:02:16 AM PDT · 45 of 45
    David Hunter to ransomnote
    "What you’ve said is false boilerplate propaganda. Not only have they dragged teenagers, disabled elderly and Downs syndrome males, they don’t have enough bullets or time to train them."

    What evidence do you have for your assertions? Some dodgy videos on Telegram etc? How do you know who filmed them, where they were filmed, or the true circumstances of the people in them?

    Ukraine has better rule-of-law and its government has stronger morality than Russia. In Russia they really have been recruiting old men, disabled men and HIV+ men and sending them to Ukraine for use as cannon fodder. To hear a Kremlin shill complaining that Ukraine has been doing the things Russia routinely does is rich!

    "When the war ends we can compare the truth of whatever was offered to Ukraine by Putin, and the scraps the Ukraine ends up with, before being divided among neighboring nations."

    "Offered to Ukraine by Putin" Are you crazy? Putin has given Ukraine nothing but death and offered them nothing but slavery.

    You ought to change your tagline from: (IN GOD WE TRUST) to: (IN SATAN WE TRUST) if you think Putin can ever be trusted.

  • Ukrainians have lost faith in Zelensky

    07/25/2025 12:40:43 PM PDT · 42 of 45
    David Hunter to ransomnote
    Boris Johnson and others convinced Zelensky the peace deal was ‘bad’.

    I assume you're referring to the time Putin offered Ukraine a chance to capitulate and called it a "peace deal" and Zelensky told him no thanks and the next day Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv and when informed what happened told Zelensky he made the right decision. (There were only draft agreements, none of the negotiators present were authorised to agree on the terms.) The Kremlin propagandists then said Johnson sabotaged an agreed peace plan.

    Russia had offered to pull back a bit if Ukraine would let them keep the areas they had annexed in the Donbass and Crimea, if it agreed to never join NATO and to cut the size of its military. But this was never going to be accepted as it was an obvious attempt by Russia to try and stall the war in order to regroup and attack again later. Also, the discussions were cut short when the Ukrainian side left following the discovery of the Russian mass-murder scene at Bucha.

    Sure, Ukraine could capitulate but if that were to happen then all the surrounding European nations would need to ramp-up defence spending to record levels. Unless they also wanted to risk living under Russian domination. The worst case scenario for NATO is Ukraine falling into Putin’s hands (as it will encourage him to continue throwing his weight around in the region). It’s also the worst case for Ukraine and the USA.

    All the people see is men (and teens) grabbed off the street and after an hour or two of training, sent to the front.

    Utter nonsense! They aren't even conscripting men aged 18 to 24-years-old in Ukraine. They have shown incredible restraint given that they were invaded by an army of brutal orcs. In the UK men aged 18 to 41-years-old became liable to military conscription on the day World War 2 started.

  • Pope Francis' 'final miracle' is hailed as Trump and Zelensky meet in the Vatican and US president turns AGAINST Putin for 'stringing him along' over peace plan

    04/27/2025 4:22:12 AM PDT · 52 of 69
    David Hunter to Kazan

    *****And, of course, no sane person would support the spin the Daily Mail or the Brits put on this war given how much insane propaganda both have put out for the past three years.*****

    Britain is a country that will always oppose evil. Just as we opposed NAZI Germany and the Soviet Union, we now oppose Russian imperialism. Because that is the right thing to do.

    *****The war pigs in Britain want this war to continue at all costs, no matter how many more Ukrainians die or how much more territory Ukraine loses.******

    What absolute nonsense! Britain has put forward a proposal for a mechanism to give Ukraine robust security guarantees so it can sign a peace treaty with Russia. Of course, Britain wants the war to end in a sustainable way. If you want to blame someone for Ukraine losing people and territory blame Russia for invading it.

  • Zelensky Disrupts Today’s Talks, US Secretary Rubio Cancels Trip to London and Negotiations Get Downgraded to ‘Technical’ Level – Will Trump Walk Away From Peace Process?

    04/27/2025 4:05:06 AM PDT · 97 of 99
    David Hunter to Owen

    *****Oh, and about funding. If people have persuaded themselves that the aid the US sends is an insignificant amount, then no one will suffer if it is cut off.******

    It’s an insignificant amount compared to the USA’s national debt, but it obviously isn’t insignificant to the Ukrainians.

  • Zelensky Disrupts Today’s Talks, US Secretary Rubio Cancels Trip to London and Negotiations Get Downgraded to ‘Technical’ Level – Will Trump Walk Away From Peace Process?

    04/27/2025 4:01:50 AM PDT · 96 of 99
    David Hunter to Owen

    *****You’re not getting it. It’s not about acquiring fossil fuels. The focus is not acquiring. It is 1000X more serious than that. It’s about the day oil can’t be acquired. Period.*****

    There are other sources of energy than oil and gas. As I said before, one reason to stop using fossil fuels is so that we don’t have to buy them from greedy murderous dictators like Putin.

    ***** The US must persuade the entire UN to create an army for the sole and express purpose of invading Russia to take the oil. It has to be overt. It has to be explicit. It will never happen.*****

    Since that will never happen, maybe you should start to support moving away from the use of fossil fuels. Then we won’t need to buy oil and gas from Russia and they will become poor and irrelevant.

  • Zelensky Disrupts Today’s Talks, US Secretary Rubio Cancels Trip to London and Negotiations Get Downgraded to ‘Technical’ Level – Will Trump Walk Away From Peace Process?

    04/27/2025 3:53:29 AM PDT · 95 of 99
    David Hunter to Worldtraveler once upon a time

    The bottom line is that by weakening Ukraine Trump is strengthening Russia’s position, which gives Putin the incentive to continue and escalate the war. You need to put pressure on Russia to make them stop invading Ukraine (by making it too costly for them to continue). The Ukrainians want peace and the Russians don’t, instead, the latter want to control Ukraine.

  • Zelensky Disrupts Today’s Talks, US Secretary Rubio Cancels Trip to London and Negotiations Get Downgraded to ‘Technical’ Level – Will Trump Walk Away From Peace Process?

    04/24/2025 1:42:19 PM PDT · 89 of 99
    David Hunter to Bobbyvotes

    *****ONE TRILLION Dollars ARE BEING PAID OUT EVERY YEAR TO SERVICE NATIONAL DEBT. Whatever money was sent Ukraine added to national debt since we have chronic budget deficits every year.*****

    So? The money given to Ukraine by the US was mostly in the form of end-of-life weapons, obsolete mothballed MBTs/IFVs/APCs, explosives and ammunition etc. The US has actually contributed about $119 billion to Ukraine (not $350 billion as repeatedly shouted by Trump), which is less than Europe has given them.

    The US is also on the verge of securing an agreement to acquire $500 billion of Ukrainian rare earth metals and other natural resources. The money given/lent to Ukraine is a tiny fraction of your national debt.

  • Zelensky Disrupts Today’s Talks, US Secretary Rubio Cancels Trip to London and Negotiations Get Downgraded to ‘Technical’ Level – Will Trump Walk Away From Peace Process?

    04/24/2025 1:31:35 PM PDT · 88 of 99
    David Hunter to Worldtraveler once upon a time
    *****The assumption that there are only two choices in a complex world is silly.*****

    Who said there are only two choices? The US has chosen to appease Russia and undermine Ukraine. That shows weakness and a lack of moral clarity. If you think your enemies will be deterred by that then you are deluded.

    Big Russian air attacks happened all around Ukraine last night with lots of drones and missiles. Kyiv was hit very hard, lots of civilian buildings hit and people killed. It was reported months ago that without additional Patriot supplies from the US Ukraine would start running out of Patriot interceptor missiles in Q1 2025, and we're now in Q2. Civilians are going to be at huge risk without Patriots and will need to be evacuated.

    The EU recently offered to pay the US $50 billion to buy more Patriot missiles for Ukraine but Trump refused to supply them.

    Sadly, Patriot is currently Ukraine's only reliable defence against ballistic missiles. Their S-300P+, Tor and Kubs can't do it. Their S-300V can, but they're out of missiles and Russia is the only manufacturer. Their Buks are too old to use the newer missile that can (and even if they could Russia is the only manufacturer). Their HAWK-Bs can stop non-hypersonic ones but less reliably than Patriots and again they use US supplied missiles. The models of SAMP/T and IRIS-T they have are not designed to stop them and neither are their NASAMS, and while that doesn't rule out the possibility they haven't scored a hit yet.

    *****Biden's war. You want it? Go for it. Push to the head of the line and march. Maybe alongside Macron. Or Merz. Or von der Leyen.*****

    It's not Biden's war. It's Putin's war! He invaded Ukraine and Biden/US was never an active party in the war. All the Ukrainians have asked for is to be allowed to buy the weapons they need to resist Russian aggression. They have not asked for foreign forces to come and fight their war for them.

    *****Go for it. Wave the Union Jack. Maybe you and some in Europe will further "threaten Putin with real consequences for that."*****

    For your information, it's called the Union Flag. It's only called the "Union Jack" when it's flown on a ship.

    Trump doesn't seem to understand that even if Ukraine agreed to his proposed peace plan by conceding the stolen land, giving up on NATO membership, accepting no robust security guarantees and cutting down the size of its armed forces (as Putin wants), there still won't be a lasting peace.

    Russia are not going to stop sending missiles and drones and they will continue to try and take other areas of Ukraine. Putin just doesn't want peace. He wants to fulfil his war objectives. Why would he stop when his modus operandi has been to opportunistically grab parts of Ukraine and violate numerous ceasefires going back to 2014?

    The weaker Trump makes Ukraine the more aggressive Putin will become and the more Ukrainian territory he will take. Putin now knows that all he has to do is wait and the Ukrainians will run out of ammunition and then their resistance will collapse, so why would he agree to a lasting peace deal with them at this point? Trump is effectively weakening the good guys (who want the war to end) and thus strengthening the bad guys (who want to continue the war and win it).

  • Zelensky Disrupts Today’s Talks, US Secretary Rubio Cancels Trip to London and Negotiations Get Downgraded to ‘Technical’ Level – Will Trump Walk Away From Peace Process?

    04/24/2025 12:56:43 PM PDT · 85 of 99
    David Hunter to Allegra

    *****Another angry, rude, obnoxious Eurozeeper spreading a bunch of Zelensky all over this forum.*****

    If you think someone is being angry, rude and obnoxious just for disagreeing with you and stating facts then you probably have narcissistic personality disorder.

    *****I guess some deep-staters are waving 100 pound notes through motorhome parks to increase zeeper traffic on conservative forums.*****

    What absolute nonsense. The conspiracy theories you pro-Russian Freepers subscribe to are beyond ludicrous. For your information, I have been a member here for 23 years (anniversary today), so there’s zero chance of me having being sent here by anyone.

  • Zelensky Disrupts Today’s Talks, US Secretary Rubio Cancels Trip to London and Negotiations Get Downgraded to ‘Technical’ Level – Will Trump Walk Away From Peace Process?

    04/24/2025 12:41:00 PM PDT · 84 of 99
    David Hunter to Bobbyvotes

    *****United States is more in debt than Putin+Zelensky+all EU combined. Get it through your brain that we are broke.*****

    You are not broke. Don’t be silly. You have the largest economy on the planet and the International Reserve Currency. You can basically print money without suffering any inflation.

    Furthermore, a large chunk of the US national debt is due to all the tax cuts passed since 2016. You have been cutting taxes at the same time as increasing state expenditure.

    *****Putin is not sending drones to United States. His fight is with Ukraine.*****

    Putin won’t stop with Ukraine if he gets what he wants there. Also, what do you think the Chinese government is thinking while watching this spectacle unfold? They are likely to decide that invading Taiwan would be easy because the US has gone soft and would stay out of it.

  • Zelensky Disrupts Today’s Talks, US Secretary Rubio Cancels Trip to London and Negotiations Get Downgraded to ‘Technical’ Level – Will Trump Walk Away From Peace Process?

    04/24/2025 12:29:43 PM PDT · 83 of 99
    David Hunter to Owen

    *****There was never any way an anti Russian government could be allowed in Kiev to be that close to the only thing in the world that matters — oil.*****

    By “anti Russian government” you mean a government that wants to be left alone by Russia and control its own territory without having to take orders from the Kremlin? The Ukrainians were never going to invade Russia. Don’t be preposterous!

    *****View all things through the prism of civilization’s lifeblood — oil. Understand it*****

    That’s just another argument for pursuing nuclear/green generation technologies. If the acquisition of oil requires us to give brutal dictators, like Putin, our money and hence put weapons into their hands then it is a major strategic liability.

    *****I say silly, but it’s hard for anyone to accept it when shown they are worthless.*****

    No. People who unquestionably serve (and defend) a wicked greedy dictator are worthless.

    Your obsession with acquiring fossil fuels simply empowers the most evil scumbags in the world.