They’d be torpedoing those boats if they thought they could get away with it.
I’m not sure that a small boat would actually set off a torpedo’s fuze.
I wouldn’t put it past this government to develop torpedoes that would be triggered by small boats - nominally for “modern assymetric threats”, but actually for killing refugees.
“Baton torpedoes”
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Hosing them with napalm, couldn’t risk one or two swimming ashore.
They’ll be sending them to Inaccessible Island next.
Null Island sounds perfect but if they really are looking at “every other additional measure” then I’m interested in their martian plans.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Plans to send people who enter the UK on small boats to a volcanic island in the south Atlantic are being considered in Whitehall, a government minister has confirmed.
Pressed on the potentially high cost of sending refugees 4,000 miles to be processed, Dines said the focus continued to be on delivering the agreement with Rwanda, but that ministers were looking at “every other additional measure, as you would expect”.
The Financial Times reported that she asked officials to look into the idea, while a Home Office source later told the Guardian it was suggested to her after she sought advice on how other countries deal with asylum applications.
But now under the government’s Illegal Migration Act any person deemed to have tried to enter the UK through irregular means will be permanently excluded from coming back.
Speaking at the time, the then shadow home secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, said: “This ludicrous idea is inhumane, completely impractical and wildly expensive.
Asked about another of the government’s controversial policies, Dines said she was hopeful the Bibby Stockholm barge would start housing its first asylum seekers “in coming days”.
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If we held a national referendum on who should get sent off to a prison camp on a remote island - Suella Braverman or some innocent refugees - Suella would win by a landslide. Let’s do it.
When is this acceleration of hate going to stop? Why not compete in how well we can treat the poor instead of inventing ever worse situations for them?
Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was a cabinet minister when the plans were first considered, said the idea was dropped because “it was just thought to be impossibly expensive to do”.
He told GB News: “I was involved in some of the discussions looking at this whilst I was a member of the government and unfortunately it would cost at least a million pounds per person you sent there to do it.
“You’ve got to send out Portakabin residences for your builders, then you’ve got builders who have to live there whilst they’re doing the building, then you have to build the premises for the migrants to live in, then you’ve got to persuade people that they want to go and live on Ascension Island for long periods to run the centre.”
Maybe condemn it for being immoral, perhaps?
Ascension Island sounds like a place in a gritty fantasy story where the evil empire sends undesirables to be either reconditioned, put to work, or executed under the guise of doing something great
You’re not going to want to go there if you’re coming to the UK to make money, but I always thought, since reading a bit about it, that Ascension Island would be a neat place to visit.
If you lived in St Helena, people would call you a saint.
