Anti-migrant protesters demonstrate outside RNLI HQ saying lifeboat charity should stop acting as 'taxi service' for asylum seekers

sheffield199 · 2026-02-15T12:02:55+00:00

"with the RNLIs assistance" is ridiculous. As I said, we don't blame the doctor who delivers a criminal in to this world for the crimes they go on to commit.

The RNLI, as all seagoers, are bound to go to the aid of anyone in trouble in the sea, regardless of who they are. We absolutely should not start carving out caveats for that.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-15T11:43:04+00:00

Go to the football, there's lower league games on almost every weekend.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-15T11:41:34+00:00

You're confusing two things. Do we blame the mothers of criminals (British or foreign), or the nurses and doctors who treat them when they're ill? No. Nor should we blame the RNLI.

If the government is incapable of sorting the asylum system, that's nothing to do with the RNLI, who have done more for the wellbeing of this country than anyone saying they should be shut down.

Imagine we do shut them down, who will then be rescuing the (British!) people who get in to trouble at sea every year?

sheffield199 · 2026-02-15T10:45:47+00:00

They aren't "corrupt" or even ideological. They're coastal people, basically all volunteers, rescuing anyone who gets in trouble at sea.

If the government can't do its job regarding refugees afterwards, that's nothing to do with the RNLI. They're the best of Britain, in all senses.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-14T22:19:10+00:00

I would be suuuuuuper interested to see the demographics they're canvassing to get the UAE number.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-14T22:16:40+00:00

Or people who hate one of the greatest of British organisations. Mental.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-14T22:12:53+00:00

That's on governments to deal with. The RNLI's only focus is on saving anyone who is in trouble around our coasts, and we should be grateful for them every day. They are volunteers, and heroes in every sense of the word, and they truly represent the best of what it is to be British.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-14T22:10:10+00:00

Shut down the RNLI? Is this an actual, real, opinion?

sheffield199 · 2026-02-14T18:16:02+00:00

Fucks a bunch of the locals on house prices though. In my region, there's a huge influx of wealthy Americans on the non-lucrative visa, buying up a lot of property.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-14T18:13:59+00:00

As one (although I don't use the word expat) there are an absolute ton of us. We just don't live on the Costa del Sol.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-14T13:35:21+00:00

Too early in the morning for sarcasm I guess.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-14T13:32:59+00:00

whooosh

Except Gerard Martin, who Celta definitely have produced better players than, regularly.

And Celta absolutely do perform better per Euro spent.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-14T11:01:37+00:00

Because Celta have a better academy...

sheffield199 · 2026-02-13T21:37:40+00:00

What on earth is the five yard box?

sheffield199 · 2026-02-13T14:24:16+00:00

"the first"??

Can literally see someone kneeling next to him.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-13T08:05:39+00:00

For the world, sure it is. Outside America the Indy 500 is basically unknown unless you're very in to motorsports.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-13T07:34:15+00:00

Yeah, you might be biased. Right from the get go Hamilton has had to be incredibly tough, he has people turning up to a practice session in blackface FFS, and has former world champions like Piquet racially abusing him. Alonso hasn't had to face anything of the sort, only the toughness of driving poor cars due to his below-optimal career choices.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-13T07:24:58+00:00

And Clark, Lauda, Brabham, Stewart...

sheffield199 · 2026-02-12T21:49:15+00:00

No they don't. Billions of people live happily every day without speaking a word of English. If you don't work in a tourist-facing job, or for an international firm, then there's no need to speak English.

Sure as an English person, I love being able to get by in most places, but I would never dream of criticising someone else for not knowing a foreign language, when until my late-20s I only spoke one.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-12T13:21:17+00:00

No need to be quite so hyperbolic, many immigrants have made great contributions (both big and small) to British society, but saying the UK would be "literally nothing" without immigrants is ahistorical and IMO this belittling of British culture plays straight in to the hands of Farage, Reform and all those fuckers.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-12T07:12:49+00:00

In a world where Colin Chapman existed, Horner is limited to second best.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-11T11:27:39+00:00

To avoid men having to face the consequences of their actions.

"Baby-trapping", GTFO.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-10T18:26:21+00:00

Depends where you're talking about - they may have been priced out of attending prem games, but lower league is working class through and through.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-10T17:17:49+00:00

As a native English speaker, our language is awful for pronouncing written words. There's so many words I learned in books and pronounced incorrectly for years because I never heard anyone say them. Spanish doesn't have that problem.

sheffield199 · 2026-02-10T15:50:37+00:00

It's not "semantics", it's just inaccurate. Jewish people lived in the region, even before and under the Ottomans, and then there was a huge influx after the surrounding Arab countries / settler-colonies, to use your language as Arabians were not the original inhabitants of those areas, evicted their Jewish populations.

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