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It all depends of the resolution you use to measure the coastline.

https://youtu.be/7dcDuVyzb8Y

As much as the BBC is a legacy Gramsci fuelled champagne Trotskyite organisation, the discussion on Wa1 was amusing because Montague did her best to present impartially.

Oh yeah, Tim Davie is a famous disciple of Gramsci.

Yea, the coastline paradox. You can make it as long or as short as you like, depending on your purposes.

That said the channel is 350 or so miles long point to point and I would assume four boats would be deployed on patrols at sea were crossings were actually viable.

Not that I think involving the navy will change the situation at all, rather the issue of the length of the coastline at high resolution seemed an odd one to raise. Very few boats currently land before they are intercepted, apparently.

Wouldn't that mean leaving the rest of the coastline un-patrolled?

Dunno, I'm naively assuming they've got time on their hands. Maybe that's it.

It won't make any difference in terms of deterring people to cross anyway.
The possibly same well-spoken Naval guy also said that the traffickers will just tell their victims that the boats will help them and will pick them up, which is pretty much true.

Hopefully it'll mean fewer drownings, if it does actually happen.

Well, looking at this we have 24 patrol boats, so assuming that we have 2/3rds of those operational would give us 16, which if we assume a six hour patrol time per boat gives us the 4 that the article talks about, for the whole of the UK. So we could plonk all of those in the Channel, but this I think is rather missing the point that the Navy would simply bring the people in dinghy's back to the (UK) shore.

I missed it, I just heard it a couple of times in the news summaries this morning and it made me smile.

The headlines tomorrow will be fun as will PMQs on Wednesday

Calling it - it'll be nothing but Johnson shouting for Starmer to apologies about having drinks

No 10 spokesman has just said he had not heard Johnson refer to himself as “big dog” so we know that’s what happened

And braying.

Lots of braying.

This big dog thing is beyond embarrassing

Johnson thinks he’s Mickey Pearson in The Gentlemen, just substitute in Big Dog for lion

“If you wish to be The King of the jungle, it's not enough to act like a king. You must be The King. And there can be no doubt. Because doubt causes chaos and one's own demise.”

“There's only one rule in the jungle: when the lion's hungry, he eats!”

There was a cycling group/club called Big Dogs Velo a few years back.

Yup. Reminds me of the ex Police ex Military posho twats I worked with a couple of years ago. Total popped collar, jackets and jeansandsheux rugger bugger, top bantz guffawing CUNTLORDS.

Standard remark about anyone was 'Yeah well he is gay and does have AIDS, so....'

Whoosh.. as italics are banned, irony is difficult!

And, as whataboutery is apparently the order of the day, Zahawi saying that Starmer should apologise for having a sandwich and a beer - remind me who fraudulently claimed expenses to heat his wife’s riding stables?

well-spoken Naval guy

I think I heard the same interview and it was a Labour peer being interviewed, Admiral Alan West. (Obviously still making good points, just that people will ignore it for that reason.)

Admiral Alan West

Probably best known for challenging Michael Gove to a fight.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10926317/Lord-West-challenges-Michael-Gove-to-a-fight.html

The navy clearly another legacy Gramsci influenced Trotskyite institution..

Gramsci must be near the top of a list of thinkers whose work is cited but hasn't actually been read

It would be a close run thing with these boys...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deleuze_and_Guattari

Actually on reflection it must be Walter Benjamin

Yes