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Is this who we are?

RNLI volunteers risk their lives on a regular basis and now they’re getting verbal and physical abuse.
What kind of a cunt shares their details on social media?
 
None of these brave volunteers deserve any of this, however I would be interested to know why they are being used as a taxi service when ought to be available at short notice to help people in actual peril
 
HughJanus said:
None of these brave volunteers deserve any of this, however I would be interested to know why they are being used as a taxi service when ought to be available at short notice to help people in actual peril
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This is what happens when the same boring phrases, names & untruths get repeated over & over again, in an effort to get people riled.

Hope this helps:

A boat does not have to be sinking, capsized or have people already in the water before those aboard are considered to be in danger.

The RNLI states very clearly that small boats attempting these Channel crossings are classed as being in distress.

They are frequently overcrowded, unsuitable for the crossing, operating in one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world and carrying people without the safety equipment, training or capability you would expect for such a voyage.

More importantly, the @RNLI does not simply patrol the Channel looking for people to “pick up”.

It is a declared search-and-rescue service. Its crews respond when @HMCoastguard tasks them because people may be in danger at sea. HM Coastguard coordinates the operation.

That distinction matters.

Search and rescue does not wait until somebody has actually drowned before deciding there is a danger to life.

Indeed, the Cranston Inquiry into the November 2021 Channel disaster examined precisely what can happen when the seriousness of the danger aboard a small boat is underestimated. More than 30 people died.

So no, the fact that a boat happens still to be floating when a lifeboat reaches it does not turn a rescue into a “taxi service”.

The RNLI's purpose is to prevent the situation reaching the point where people are dead in the water.

And once again, in 2025 only 109 of the RNLI's 9,058 lifeboat launches involved Channel small boats, just 1.2%.

Calling an organisation a “taxi service for illegal immigrants” on the basis of 1.2% of its launches, while ignoring what those crews are actually tasked to do, is not an accurate description of the RNLI.
 
HughJanus said:
None of these brave volunteers deserve any of this, however I would be interested to know why they are being used as a taxi service when ought to be available at short notice to help people in actual peril
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Why try to distract from the bad behaviour with an irrelevant question?
 
Mistryman said:
Calling an organisation a “taxi service for illegal immigrants” on the basis of 1.2% of its launches, while ignoring what those crews are actually tasked to do, is not an accurate description of the RNLI.
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No on the basis of this incident, the RNLI have been misused on this occasion and it's simply not right and this is not ignoring them it is asking a legitimate question of their hierarchy
 
What? said:
No on the basis of this incident, the RNLI have been misused on this occasion and it's simply not right and this is not ignoring them it is asking a legitimate question of their hierarchy
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nah!
 
What? said:
No on the basis of this incident, the RNLI have been misused on this occasion and it's simply not right and this is not ignoring them it is asking a legitimate question of their hierarchy
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They don't wait until someone has gone overboard or the boat has turned over, they bring them into land to prevent a dangerous situation from worsening.

"RNLI lifeboats were tasked by the coastguard and launched 9,058 times in 2025: 109 of those launches were to those in distress in the Channel, representing 1.2 per cent of the RNLI’s total rescue work. Nearly 95 per cent, of those who crossed the English Channel in small boats last year, one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, were picked up by the UK Border Force. Our mission, and our tasking is to rescue those women, children and men in danger of drowning. Anyone rescued from a small boat by the RNLI is immediately handed over to the UK’s immigration authorities."
 
The RNLI subject being offered up by the Left is just another distraction technique

Its sad to see the RNLI being complicit in the cover-up

A quick bit of research shows (prior to the opening by the Government of this new official route to Portsmouth) a different picture

The vast majority of migrant water taxi launches by the RNLI take place from just five stations near Folkestone and Dover

These five stations launched a total of 311 times in 2025

So 109 RNLI water bus launches for the criminals in 2025 is a % of a c. 33%

It is sad to see the volunteers who actually deliver the service being let down by the RNLI 'management' (who are not volunteers and earn very generus salaries it should be noted).

Poor leadership
 
Pen4 said:
The RNLI subject being offered up by the Left is just another distraction technique

Its sad to see the RNLI being complicit in the cover-up

A quick bit of research shows (prior to the opening by the Government of this new official route to Portsmouth) a different picture

The vast majority of migrant water taxi launches by the RNLI take place from just five stations near Folkestone and Dover

These five stations launched a total of 311 times in 2025

So 109 RNLI water bus launches for the criminals in 2025 is a % of a c. 33%

It is sad to see the volunteers who actually deliver the service being let down by the RNLI 'management' (who are not volunteers and earn very generus salaries it should be noted).

Poor leadership
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Not this about charities again.

Your research will also tell you the money for the RNLI & pretty much any other charity, isn’t just raised by Beryl & Derek rattling their charity tins looking for odd change from people on their High St.

But what a surprise you should take this angle - your empathy, sympathy & understanding always shine through.

Do your homework on the tosser that ‘mobilised’ the gathering of idiots to abuse RNLI staff & threatening to release personal details about them - someone that took advantage of a person being groomed, in addition to a history of DA - a fine individual in the minds of the ‘patriot’.
 
Pen4 said:
The RNLI subject being offered up by the Left is just another distraction technique

Its sad to see the RNLI being complicit in the cover-up

A quick bit of research shows (prior to the opening by the Government of this new official route to Portsmouth) a different picture

The vast majority of migrant water taxi launches by the RNLI take place from just five stations near Folkestone and Dover

These five stations launched a total of 311 times in 2025

So 109 RNLI water bus launches for the criminals in 2025 is a % of a c. 33%

It is sad to see the volunteers who actually deliver the service being let down by the RNLI 'management' (who are not volunteers and earn very generus salaries it should be noted).

Poor leadership
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A simple "yes" to the opening question would have sufficed.
 
The RNLI charter (i.e. a non-judgemental approach) has been in place since it was formed in 1824.

So thankfully, the mindsets of yours & other ‘patriots’ won’t change them - in fact, it’s a testimony to the work they do that donations go up whenever idiots questioning the RNLI rear their ugly heads.
 
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