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People at sea, especially those in smaller, more vulnerable boats, instinctively club together to save each other from a shared danger. If someone else is in the water you drop everything to help them, as if they were your own crew. Obstructing a lifeboat is like murdering your friends. It's unthinkable.
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I would be surprised if the 'protestors', for which read racist brexiteer scum have anything to do with the Hastings fishermen. The volunteers who man the RNLI lifeboat are predominantly taken from the commercial beach-launched fishing fleet, many of which I know and like. They will rescue anyone, including a bunch of drunken French yachtsmen I saw 5 miles out who had lost the ability to speak, let alone sail.