More deaths in the channel.

[Deleted member 221031]

bile and hatred.

Your specialty.

 

[motorbiking]

What’s the percentage on the Kent coast though?

See the hotspot. Page 10 in the report.

https://rnli.org/-/media/rnli/downloads/agm/22512651_ara_2022_dc_v9_download_protected.pdf?rev=dfa7e2838c5343be8003b5f1db881ecf&hash=83C5B1DA1ABAF5B240C723225D4C6606

21% of rescued people were illegals. According to their own data. Of course it can be hidden in a press release and misreported.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

See the hotspot. Page 10 in the report.

https://rnli.org/-/media/rnli/downloads/agm/22512651_ara_2022_dc_v9_download_protected.pdf?rev=dfa7e2838c5343be8003b5f1db881ecf&hash=83C5B1DA1ABAF5B240C723225D4C6606

21% of rescued people were illegals. According to their own data. Of course it can be hidden in a press release and misreported.

That hotspot is London, no ?

 

[Roy Bloom]

Careful selection of criteria to mask the data?

Where precisely?

https://rnli.org/-/media/rnli/downloads/agm/22512651_ara_2022_dc_v9_download_protected.pdf?rev=dfa7e2838c5343be8003b5f1db881ecf&hash=83C5B1DA1ABAF5B240C723225D4C6606

21% of rescued people were illegals. According to their own data. Of course it can be hidden in a press release and misreported.

 

[denso13]

"In total, the RNLI was tasked and launched 290 times during 2022 to incidents involving men, women and children making the perilous journey across one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes in small, overcrowded and unseaworthy boats.

This figure represents 3% of the total number of lifeboat launches for the whole of the RNLI last year."

https://rnli.org/news-and-media/2023/june/14/rnli-releases-new-figures-to-highlight-crews-lifesaving-impact-in-the-channel

 

[THFC]

That 3% figure is totally meaningless as it's for the whole country.

The only figure that's relevant is the number of times RNLI taxis were launched from their stations in Kent to bring in illegal economic migrants from the English Channel, which undoubtedly will be a hell of a lot higher. I doubt they provide their taxis from Liverpool etc.

 

[denso13]

The only figure that's relevant is the number of times RNLI taxis were launched from their stations in Kent

Should they just not respond to calls for assistance in the Channel?

 

[carmanmemoranda]

That 3% figure is totally meaningless as it's for the whole country.

The only figure that's relevant is the number of times RNLI taxis were launched from their stations in Kent to bring in illegal economic migrants from the English Channel, which undoubtedly will be a hell of a lot higher. I doubt they provide their taxis from Liverpool etc.

So the quote mb made isn't relevant because London/Thames is busier

 

[JP_]

Can we argue about something else now, please?
RNLI have lots of stations in lots of places. It really isn't a problem!

 

[denso13]

RNLI have lots of stations in lots of places.

And they save lives every day of the week.

 

[JP_]

4 on the Thames alone.

 

[motorbiking]

Sort of is a problem when they can’t fund their current operations. If you put a bean counter head on, £36m on illegal immigrant taxi services is the obvious area to tackle.

Remembering that these are their most expensive vessels being used.

 

[denso13]

Remembering that these are their most expensive vessels being used.

Would you prefer they didn't respond to calls from the channel?

 

[Mottie]

How about deducting the cost of the RNLI channel taxi service from that money we pay to France to prevent these boats setting off? The French might try a bit harder to stop them leaving if that happens.

 

[JohnD]

We?

Taxes do not pay for RNLI.