A lifeboat museum says it has been forced to close after its volunteers were targeted by anti-migrant protesters.
Poole Old Lifeboat Museum said it made the decision after several incidents of "protesters verbally assaulting our volunteers".
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@afewbugs If the number of people on the island is the problem, I propose throwing these thugs into the sea to make room for immigrants.
@afewbugs I wonder if any lawyers would like to comment on the RNLI suing people for defamation? I’m sure they’d be very reluctant to do so, but if nobody fights back, this scaremongering will get worse.
@afewbugs It’s not an accident, somebody is paying a lot of dicks to make YouTube videos and fb posts about how the RNLI is deliberately importing migrants.
Seeing the other story this morning about Ilfracombe pensioners breaking traffic lights because they cause brain cancer makes me think there is no story too stupid to not gain traction.
I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist, but the idea that someone like Putin might consider a very efficient way to destabilise a country would be to mobilise a bunch of angry, resentful young men to threaten its emergency responders and council workers is looking increasingly plausible
And you may be interested in making a country leave a powerful block of countries all working together to advance their economic and regulatory interests.
Like, uh... The EU?
Not necessarily Russia-directed. It's not so much a conspiracy as a general modus operandi. Fascists create problems. They also make perfectly normal things (like people wanting to live in a different country or social gender) into a moral panic.
Then they say they're the only ones who can solve the problems.
Then if you're STUPID ENOUGH to elect them, they empty the treasury into their mates' pockets and send masked police to kill you if you complain.
@afewbugs I think we need something like “Never ascribe to greater malice that which can be explained by individual malice”
@afewbugs The oldest propaganda trick in the book is to make normal people think the truth is a conspiracy.
@afewbugs not to mention all the angry gammons
Yeah. Like the money to Danny Tommo to organise the thing in Dover the other day, although iirc that money was via the US. Unfortunately there are white-supremacists with lots of money who either _like_ Putin or are being played by him.
@afewbugs meanwhile, reform; "Tee hee hee, we conceal political donations"
@afewbugs so much like that is starting to make worrying sense, it's no longer beyond the realms of possibility. The way countries just seem to be getting completely destabilised now.
@afewbugs Not the sharpest spoons in the drawer, are they?
@afewbugs I think we need to call these 'protests' what they are: terrorism. If they want to protest against refugee policy, they should do it outside parliament or the Home Office, don't do it at a time and place where the objective is to intimidate or physically attack vulnerable people, humanitarian volunteers or emergency services.