All right, mate, let's hear your plan for securing the UK's south-eastern coastl...

root-parent · 2026-08-11T22:31:32

If Daily Mail journalist can be there on time to photograph the boats, the authorities could spend less time in the pub, and make some arrests...

IshKebab · 2026-08-12T02:05:19

Take people back to France? Feels pretty damn obvious to me. I believe they even agreed something like that fairly recently.

codeduck · 2026-08-12T21:14:25

Believe it or not, they actually already do this.

account42 · 2026-08-12T11:59:37

Most (non-western) countries do pretty well by making it clear that those who enter illegally will be arrested, charged, imprisoned, and then deported (at their own cost) rather than given free benefits.

codeduck · 2026-08-12T21:16:03

Believe it or not, the UK already does this to people for whom there is no plausible asylum claim. The problem, if you want to think about it as such, is that the UK currently believes in treating potential asylum claimants as such rather than automatically labeling them as criminals.

account42 · 2026-08-13T07:40:03

This may be technically correct but only because the definition of "potentional asylum claimants" has been expanded to include pretty much everyone.

Citizen_Lame · 2026-08-11T14:32:04

Sharks and tornados, and imagine if we can combine them!

codeduck · 2026-08-11T15:41:37

Bad news, budget cuts mean we can afford a flounder with a paper fan. His name's Steven and he lives about twenty yards east of Lulworth Cover, but we reckon he's okay to commute to work.