LIFEBOAT SERVICE.

[100milesaway]

Well after being an enthusiastic supporter of the Lifeboats charity,my family in Kent were volunteers,  I have made the decision to no longer support them financially, it will be my decision  who is in peril on the high seas and the growing army of customers  coming through Dover etc are most certainly not in any kind of danger at all.

From Auntie.

[wymberley]

Understand where you're coming from, however, is there a but. Is the RNLI being paid for their services by the government? They themselves ('customers') may not (or may be) in danger but they are a potential danger to other mariners and using the RNLI expertise to avoid this is advantageous provided they're being paid and adding to their coffers as opposed to depleting them unnecessarily.

[old'un]

looks like its come back and bit them on the bum..https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11383645/Lifeboat-crew-training-course-gets-shown-door-bosses-make-way-asylum-seekers.html

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, this government and previous governments should have sorted the illegal immigration control years ago 🤔 now they come over in boats it puts a heavy burden on the RNLI and the volunteers who give their time not forgetting the cost to their employer,

Edited November 6, 2022 by oldypigeonpopper

[wymberley]

I am sure that the hotel will not have charged them for their shortened stay and will also pay the bill for their remaining stay in the other hotel. This to include drinks which if these guys were crew members this amount is likely to be considerable.

[samboy]

There was an article a while back that the RNLI gave some of their money away and people were not pleased at all.

Can't remember who they gave it too though but there was a bit of a stink about.

 

[Rem260]

How come a Lorry driver who unknowingly brings 5 migrants in the back of his lorry to Dover is fined. But the RNLI is praised. I cannot see the difference between the 2 if the migrants are all claiming asylum.

 

 

 

 

[armsid]

A lorry driver hits the papers and the authorities have a scapegoat while they are bringing them in by the backdoor. Could you see the Border Force being taken to court like a lorry driver? As i said in previous post what happens when RNLI go out to bring in the illegals in dinghies and a shout comes in for aboat in distress? Who gets priority and who loses ? Its not a case if its when this scenario occurs

Edited November 6, 2022 by armsid

[old man]

Rumour is rife in the NE of large and small trawlers making up the earnings shortfall from restrictions by meeting others at sea for a lucrative transfer?

[Scully]

5 hours ago, 100milesaway said:

Well after being an enthusiastic supporter of the Lifeboats charity,my family in Kent were volunteers,  I have made the decision to no longer support them financially, it will be my decision  who is in peril on the high seas and the growing army of customers  coming through Dover etc are most certainly not in any kind of danger at all.

From Auntie.

Have you informed the RNLI of your decision and the reason why? 

[100milesaway]

22 minutes ago, Scully said:

Have you informed the RNLI of your decision and the reason why? 

Yes.

[12gauge82]

Rnli is one I've often made sporadic donations to, I stopped some time ago for the same reasons. 

[steve_b_wales]

4 hours ago, samboy said:

There was an article a while back that the RNLI gave some of their money away and people were not pleased at all.

Can't remember who they gave it too though but there was a bit of a stink about.

 

I think it was to help people abroad to learn to swim, I could be wrong though.

[Scully]

35 minutes ago, 100milesaway said:

Yes.

Good for you. 👍

I will do the same. 

[12gauge82]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9851673/Woke-RNLI-turning-calls-stricken-boaters-busy-carrying-migrants.html

[Bigbob]

When i work at the university a lady owner of a smallholding i control the rabbits on was collecting for the RLNI  that's her thing she's out in all weathers everywhere and i thought she was just a lady gardener  

[old'un]

25 minutes ago, 12gauge82 said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9851673/Woke-RNLI-turning-calls-stricken-boaters-busy-carrying-migrants.html

The one thing in that article that is a little suspicious is the donations, its gone from £7k per day to 200k.

[Gordon R]

The article about burkinis and creches did it for me. The RNLI staff are brave people led by idiots.

[12gauge82]

25 minutes ago, Gordon R said:

The article about burkinis and creches did it for me. The RNLI staff are brave people led by idiots.

This. 

[oowee]

I am a big supporter of the RNLI and go out of my way to contribute to them at least the equivalent of my RAC membership. 

I just wish they would charge for a shout when rescuing boats that have insurance, A boat towed ashore in spain can expect to claim against their insurance 1500+ euro's for the shout. Seems to me that doing that could massively change the level of service they provide. 

[Gordon R]

It's not the level of service I worry about. It is putting illegal immigrants before others and the bizarre way they spend donations.

Just what would they do with increased donations? More burkinis and creches?

[London Best]

I have donated to the RNLI for forty years, even thoughI no longer have a boat. But I stopped donating about two years ago because of their assisting the .rubber dinghy invasion.

[henry d]

6 hours ago, old man said:

Rumour is rife in the NE of large and small trawlers making up the earnings shortfall from restrictions by meeting others at sea for a lucrative transfer?

Have you informed the authorities?

[Remimax]

why do all these charity's have a chief executive on these huge salaries.

boils my ****.

[London Best]

6 hours ago, old man said:

Rumour is rife in the NE of large and small trawlers making up the earnings shortfall from restrictions by meeting others at sea for a lucrative transfer?

Some time in the 1970’s, I cannot recall when,  I was wildfowling alongside the Welland estuary on The Wash, way out on the mud at low tide. A cockle boat came up as far as the tide allowed and stopped. I knew this was unusual activity as the tide would not have allowed access to the river for a few hours at that time. I did not recognise the boat, so I knew it was not one of the local Fosdyke boats as I knew them all well at the time. After a very few minutes stationary the engine was started and the boat went back out into the Deeps. An Asian man wearing a suit and waders carrying a suitcase and a compass walked past me not fifty yards from me.