Kemi Badenoch doesn’t really need to speak in public more than once a month and she’ll do ok. In that respect, keeping her head down is proving very effective.

Sniping from the sidelines and criticising everyone clearly has merit. 🙃

1 hour ago, royal white said:

They have a secret plan. They’re using the Brazilian navy 🤦🏻😆😆

Just having a read. I think it's fair to say that there a few points Id gently critique!

I particularly liked this bit. They might have well as just written 'be reet' 😁

9 hours ago, royal white said:

Said it before. Straight to one of those Scottish islands or a big detention centre in the middle of no where. The men have to go working everyday, community type work, under supervision. The women can stay at the centre cleaning and preparing meals. Kids can do Hyrox outside.

What WOMEN ive never seen any yet

23 hours ago, Ani said:

Whoops, typing with no glasses on , spell check.

I should have pretended it was meant to be ironic .

S'alreet pal. We all do it from time to time.

23 hours ago, kent_white said:

Mmmm - double breasted, comically oversized blazer with brass buttons and mustard corduroy trousers. Your favourite 😉😁

There'll be plenty of others I am sure. Not my thing but goes down well in the Home Counties.

He is, as you say, my current favourite.

22 hours ago, kent_white said:

Shocked. I was sure you'd have gone to a 'non-uniform' type school. You did once have an impressive barnet mind.

21 hours ago, mickbrown said:

You know I wasn’t talking about what the cunt wears. (Shite though it is)

Seems that I do now.

You now have me considering what cunts wear. Nice little Brazilian landing strip does it for me.

21 hours ago, Ani said:

Tice now being investigated for non declaration of interests

It will never end. "The Establishment" has been properly spooked by the council election results. Absolutely bricking it.

Hopefully the electorate won't fall for it like they didn't for the Brexit referendum.

20 hours ago, kent_white said:

Hang on. Is this not just another attempt by 'the establishment' to pull the rug from under the feet of an honest, working class, man of the people?

Slightly exaggerated but certainly on the right track.

20 hours ago, Sweep said:

@bolty58 , I know you want Farage in power, but, do you think he could/should be merging with Restore, as Lowe is now talking about - or do you think he'll have enough to sweep him into #10 without the merger?

Like it. Better than alliteration that pal.

No. They need to merge/form a pact or alliance/prompt a melding of the Right. They need the Conservatives and the Conservatives need them.

Restore too radical for most.

19 hours ago, kent_white said:

I'm not sure the Navy can refuse can they?

It's more how the French react. Can you imagine the Royal Navy towing a migrant boat into a French port and dropping them off?

Maybe it might be more feasible if the French had their own hard right party in charge and came to spend sort of hardliner agreement. But not as things stand.

It benefits France too and they will come to see this. For a start, they will stop coming and reducing Calais and its environs to third world shanty towns full of crime and intimidation.

You and your ilk could stop fretting about those who perish in the Channel.

Win-win-win.

13 hours ago, gonzo said:

Stop the incentive not the boats.

Yep, that will stop the boats.

17 hours ago, Sweep said:

but Australia.....or something

Oh fuck. This never gets old

12 hours ago, Zico said:

reform stopping the boats is like 350m a week going back into the nhs

Farage makes promise to get votes

wins election

can't deliver promise

he blames everyone else

voters blame everyone else

farage better off

voters not

but at least they won

I'll settle for this.

42 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

It benefits France too and they will come to see this. For a start, they will stop coming and reducing Calais and its environs to third world shanty towns full of crime and intimidation.

You and your ilk could stop fretting about those who perish in the Channel.

Win-win-win.

I'm not sure I've ever fretted about anybody perishing in the channel.

Personally I think if you're daft enough to try and cross one of the world's busiest sea lanes in a rubber dinghy, then you shouldn't be surprised when it goes horribly wrong.

I'd be very happy with zero crossings starting this afternoon. I just don't think causing a major international incident with France and Belgium is the best solution. Or using an overstretched Royal Navy and no doubt enormous cost.

We'd immediately alienate the people who are most likely to be able to help us fix the problem. And we'd not get that trust back for a long, long time.

The idea of plonking some boats there as a deterrent and part of the solution isn't necessarily a bad idea. But could this not be a properly resourced border force for example?

24 minutes ago, kent_white said:

The idea of plonking some boats there as a deterrent and part of the solution isn't necessarily a bad idea. But could this not be a properly resourced border force for example?

They could say that they'll properly fund/resource the border force, and increase patrols etc - but that doesn't sound anywhere near sexy enough. Mention the Royal Navy, and the thickos immediately assume that HMS Prince of Wales is going to be anchored off the shore of Dover, ready and waiting to tow back a dinghy with 20 brown people in it back to Wimeraux beach

15 hours ago, Manchester_whites said:

Bring back hovercrafts so that we can drop them off on any French beach 😁😂

The old hovercraft port at Pegwell Bay is now completely derelict so it'd be a bugger to launch.

Its now part of wildlife reserve as well. Nice walk if you are ever down this way.

No problem. Here's a leaflet with some details about Private Health Care alternatives. Off you pop.

16 hours ago, kent_white said:

We'd immediately alienate the people who have taken over one billion pounds from us to help us fix the problem and achieved four fifths of fuck all. And we'd not get that level of leeching back for a long, long time. Not until we ask.

16 hours ago, Sweep said:

They could say that they'll properly fund/resource the border force, and increase patrols etc - but that doesn't sound anywhere near sexy enough. Mention the Royal Navy, and the thickos immediately assume that HMS Prince of Wales is going to be anchored off the shore of Dover, ready and waiting to tow back a dinghy with 20 brown people in it back to Wimeraux beach

Just as long as the 'thicko's' put their cross in the correct place (not always guaranteed as we WWayers well know) then all well and good.

5 hours ago, bolty58 said:

Just as long as the 'thicko's' put their cross in the correct place (not always guaranteed as we WWayers well know) then all well and good.

You mean “thickos”…?

Edited Wednesday at 06:525 days by Jol_BWFC

6 hours ago, bolty58 said:

  23 hours ago, kent_white said:

We'd immediately alienate the people who have taken over one billion pounds from us to help us fix the problem and achieved four fifths of fuck all. And we'd not get that level of leeching back for a long, long time. Not until we ask.

That's an argument for further negotiations with the French authorities and looking at whether there is any claw back mechanism as part of the agreement of a review finds it's underperforming.

Not for sticking warships in the channel! 😁

I see the Tories have selected that whopper The Crewkerne Man as a candidate

10 minutes ago, kent_white said:

That's an argument for further negotiations with the French authorities and looking at whether there is any claw back mechanism as part of the agreement of a review finds it's underperforming.

Not for sticking warships in the channel! 😁

You mean something like this ?

The £662 million UK-France small boats agreement signed in April 2026 makes British funding conditional on performance results for the first time. Under the three-year deal, the UK can withhold up to £100 million of the funding if French authorities fail to meet agreed interception and disruption targets. [1, 2, 3, 4]

11 minutes ago, Ani said:

You mean something like this ?

The £662 million UK-France small boats agreement signed in April 2026 makes British funding conditional on performance results for the first time. Under the three-year deal, the UK can withhold up to £100 million of the funding if French authorities fail to meet agreed interception and disruption targets. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Yeah exactly like that 😁

And I might also let it run for more than 4 months before writing it off as a bad job.

Let’s be honest about this French deal, they’re going to make a token effort to stop the odd dinghy have a photo op and get the press down to show us that they’re actively stopping or trying to stop the small boats. In reality over the next sand dune dinghies are loading up (which they know about) with dozens of them heading over. They’re not daft.