A plan by Ireland to send police officers to the border to stop migrants entering the country sparked a furious row between Rishi Sunak and the Irish prime minister on Wednesday.
The Irish government has announced that 100 police officers are to be redeployed to front-line immigration enforcement duties in border areas after ministers claimed up to 90 per cent of asylum seekers arriving in Dublin had come from the UK via Northern Ireland.
According to everything we were told abot Brexit the moment there’s any restrictions on hte movement of people or goods across the border that’s a breach of the Good Friday Agreement and immediately All-Ireland descends into flames and mass murder.
But, you know, maybe not?
Also, how come some folks are allowed to try to keep other folks out and we’re not?
Finally, of course Rwanda’s never going to work. We’ve alredy got people feeling the country at the threat of it so it’ll never work at all. Of course no one is every going to not come under that same threat, don’t be silly.
Gosh, I can’t believe the Irish government wants to pass up the opportunity to have their streets (further) enriched. Imagine not wanting Spanish-Brazilians running riot with swords and slaughtering Nigerian schoolboys?
Won’t someone think of the diversity?
And of course they can’t be sent back as UK is not “safe” thanks to Rwanda policy.
This whole situation is so comedic, it sounds like some Carry On film.
Carry on Along the Border
Starring Joan Sim as Theresa May, Kenneth Williams as Rishi Sunak, Bernard Bresslaw as Boris Johnson and Charles Hawtrey as Leo Varadker ( guest appearence Sid James as Nigel Farage ).
That cast list is perfect Otto
The Irish border extends 499 km from Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough.
The reported 100 Gardai on 8 hours shifts for 5 days a week works out at an average of one two-man team preventing unwanted incursions for every 26 miles.
It’s almost as if they’re not being totally serious.
I never quite understood why, after Brexit, the UK gov didn’t just say to the EU “we ain’t putting up a border between the North and the South, but if you choose to, feel free”.
The element of ‘security ‘ in the Belfast agreement was in the context of British Army border posts to stop the provo’s.
Addolff.
Because Teresa May is a remainer and spineless and thick as shit.
Easily manipulated by her ‘advisors’, though I suspect she was happy to be manipulated.
Otto – Barbara Windsor as Ursula v.d. Leyen?
TMB
Better suited to Georgia Meloni.
Presumably the smugglers will set up a route from Kigala back to England for those deportees who can still afford it.
@Addoff and @Jimmers are both entirely correct. If we had a real Tory, they would be actually making these points
Should have built a camp on Ascension Island instead of this Rwanda nonsense.
The Irish proved quite adept at ethnically cleansing their Protestant middle class after independence. I’m not sure I’d bet against them this time.
@Ottokring
Carry on up the khyber, well veruka was involved so that’s rather apt.
Carry on whining and blaming Britain.
Well I’ m laughing my arse off!
I am going in a few weeks. Will report back on whether there are roadblocks and racial profiling on the Belfast to Dublin motorway.
Hotel prices are unbelievable BTW, not just in the Republic.
The reported 100 Gardai on 8 hours shifts for 5 days a week works out at an average of one two-man team preventing unwanted incursions for every 26 miles.
Looked at another way, the 50 2-man teams would each be responsible for 10km of the border 24/7.
The Irish border extends 499 km from Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough.
The reported 100 Gardai on 8 hours shifts for 5 days a week works out at an average of one two-man team preventing unwanted incursions for every 26 miles.
It’s almost as if they’re not being totally serious.
The British Army couldn’t secure it with a couple of regiments operating using guard towers and fencing, the SAS, 14 Int and any number of IRA informers, some of them allegedly quite senior.
A previous version of me was slightly involved in closing that border. With loads of squaddies, wire, helicopters and guns we could not keep them out.
“The Irish border extends 499 km from Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough.”
That reminds me: there was a spell when fractals were fashionable so some arse would point out that you can’t really know how long a border is unless it consists of straight lines.
What replaced fractals as a scienceoid interest for the unscientific? Global Boiling?
The British Army couldn’t secure it with a couple of regiments operating using guard towers and fencing, the SAS, 14 Int and any number of IRA informers, some of them allegedly quite senior.
The only way to secure a land border is to adopt the DDR or Israeli solution, and there are few western governments with the bottle to do it. Britain is fortunate in having the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall.
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands ….
Time to stop mocking RoI. We should encourage them to stregthen the border, maybe offer some help too
@BiG
UK Gov’t are bussing GB illegals to NI. The “fair share” they were receiving, illegally, from RoI wasn’t enough.
Which hotel have you booked?
Oh, those Dublin illegals cleared out are not happy. The five star hotel they’re now in with golf course, gym, leisure centre, pools, spa and more isn’t good enough
Pcar,
Mostly pub rooms, in Co’s Kerry, Galway, and Antrim. Few nights in one of the handful of swanky central Belfast hotels.
Don’t know about Kerry and Galway, but cousin was in Donegal few weeks ago for regular long weekend holiday. They’re never going back, illegals everywhere and didn’t feel happy, relaxed and safe – left after one day
In Antrim, visit Giant’s Causeway if you have time. Allso, if you like Whiskey Bushmills, the world’s oldest licensed whiskey distillery
In Belfast go for Europa, then you can boast about having stayed in most bombed hotel in world
Couple of good pubs opposite hotel and 5 min walk to City Hall, main shopping area and some good restaurants
Europa is part of NI’s Hastings Hotels. BBC Series The Hotel People
The only way I can see that we can deal with the illegals is to reinstitute slavery. The mere sight on their phones of their fellow illegals labouring under the lash would make them flee faster than light.
PS. I’m such a decrepit old drongo that I don’t believe anybody’d bother to enslave me!!!
Bushmills tour already booked.
Europa is booked solid time we are in Belfast.
Bushmills will be my third distillery, after Glenfiddich (crap whisky, great tour), and Kavalan.
Who’s even heard of the second one?
Talking of hotels… When I was boarding at Royal School Armagh a bomb went off one night about 2 am. Woke everyone in dorm and we went to windows. First to spot fire said “Bet that’s your dad’s hotel’ to Campbell
About 5 mins later house master came in: “Campbell, come with me please”
He and we’d often wondered why he was boarding, now we knew