Re: Stopping the boats

Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:50:39 +0100
> Citizen Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> > > 
> > > 	If it were that easy it would be done. How about if the UK
> > > government tracked down the London based gangs running this and arrested
> > > them ? Journalists seem to have no trouble tracking them to London.
> > 
> > You believe everything you see in the papers?
> 
> 	You can do better than that. I think about everything I read.
> 
> > > They
> > > are the criminals not the poor sods they con into paying over their life
> > > savings for a shot at a better life.
> > 
> > They are operating in France.
> > Which bit of that don't you understand?
> 
> 	They are operating all over the place - they organise the shipping
> of people from various places *through* Europe to the UK. 
> 
> 	Why to the UK ? Because that's where they are based and where they
> can use the people in their sweatshops and brothels. France is just the
> last stop before the UK for those that come by boat, others come in
> shipping containers and don't always go through France unless they're using
> the chunnel - some were recently found in Rosslare passing through on their
> way to the UK.
> 
> 	Not believing everything you read in the papers is fine and
> sensible but do some joined up thinking and ask *why* do these people come
> and *why* do the people organising it bother to bring them to the UK when
> they could just abandon them in France or anywhere else along the way. 
> 
> 	These people have already paid for their passage, are way past the
> point of return and almost certainly none of them could identify their
> smugglers. Abandoning them would be the simplest thing to do, but the
> smugglers go to great lengths to bring as many as possible to the UK. Which
> means they expect to get more from having these people *in* the UK.
> 
> 	If they were French gangs they would be bringing them to France to
> work in sweatshops and brothels there.
> 
> 	Once again - why is nobody in the UK going after these UK gangs. If
> you like conspiracy theories speculate on connections between government and
> gangs as well as police corruption.

Yes, well British plod aren't allowed to go stomping through France feeling 
collars. French plod are. They aren't doing that and so the *migrants* that 
make it here get put up in hostels and are no longer a problem for the French.
Voila!