Lorn Traka, a valued member of Trucknet, 97 posts and all but 6 deleted. Unless of course you are another member, my money is on Happy Keith or Chas. Veering towards Chas right now. Whoever you are you’re a bit unhinged, which makes for highly entertaining posts. 
switchlogic:
maga:
switchlogic:
And there we have the typical British attitude summed up in one post, ‘its not our problem’ closely followed by ‘send the troops in’. Clueless. With attitudes like that is it any wonder the French rather they got to the UK.I must be missing something, surely sending the troops in now is the perfect response as the current defences are clearly not enough!!
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Is that really your first response? Send in the troops? A more sensible suggestion would be for us to assist the town of Calais in dealing with this situation, we don’t need the army just yet, we just need to stop buying our heads in the sand and pretending is all down to Calais to sort out.
Waste of time sending in the troops imo.
Bomber command though . . .
bald bloke:
switchlogic:
green456:
raymundo:
A few years ago I was taking a ship to Deliskilesi in Turkey and when passing to the south of Sicily a message was broadcast that a refugee boat with approx 350 people on board had been wrecked under the cliffs and that people were in the water, ‘all ships in the area please respond’ very strange that most shipborne radios went very quiet … including mine I must add !don’t think I could leave leave 350 people to die, no matter where they were from
Me neither. I’m not sure I’d ever have been able to sleep again had I acted in such a way.
I thought was Maritime law that you must respond to a SOS call .
It is. Anyone found to ignore a call for help is in big foo foo.
The EU rules state that any refugee immigrant must appeal in the first country they set foot in. Now as they are in France that means France has to grant them entry or deport them back home the same rule apply if they enter Italy first etc. Not do not stop till u pass go into Britain home of the get what u want from us unless u are born here then it’s ■■■■ off.
Listening to radio 2 today the migrant was asked why come to the UK he answered France gives us nothing but in THE GOOD OLD UK we get house money jobs etc. He even new of where he could get work.
Now that says it all. I think we should be like the aussies that would sort them out.
P.s. I might be one of them soon if it’s a yes vote
peterm:
chillistrucker, I really sympathise with you mate. A head injury finished my working life but I was looked after a lot better than you have been. I thought I’d had a rough deal until I just read your post. Makes me really glad we came to Oz back in '74.As for the do gooders and bleeding hearts… [zb] 'em !
How can you sympathise , you’re in the opposite situation? Australia is now a nation of immigrants who said ■■■■ 'em to the Natives ?
If the popular press is to be believed then UK residents don’t want these uncontrolled immigrants coming here ? In the same vein, if the Aboriginals had a say in if you came there, what do you think they’d say ? You can’t even vote here, never mind sympathise.
And as the process of “assimilation” continues in Australia, with the likes of yourself i see your future as rosy !!
The Italians where complaining about it too a few months back.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27422743
The BBC provide a map of the illegal routes into Europe. And we’re fannying around discussing how to make Calais secure ?
emwmarine:
bald bloke:
switchlogic:
green456:
raymundo:
A few years ago I was taking a ship to Deliskilesi in Turkey and when passing to the south of Sicily a message was broadcast that a refugee boat with approx 350 people on board had been wrecked under the cliffs and that people were in the water, ‘all ships in the area please respond’ very strange that most shipborne radios went very quiet … including mine I must add !don’t think I could leave leave 350 people to die, no matter where they were from
Me neither. I’m not sure I’d ever have been able to sleep again had I acted in such a way.
I thought was Maritime law that you must respond to a SOS call .
It is. Anyone found to ignore a call for help is in big foo foo.
You’re looking for a Scottish guy by the name of Raymundo, from Morayshire, sails up and down the Thames !! Doesn’t like “foreigners” !!! Done a few years for Richard Long (so not to bright !!!). 
For starters this problem was started by the lack of action on the part of the French and the ■■■■ poor response from the UK. If the UK actually had doors on its borders instead of sieves then we wouldn’t be in this situation. Given the fact that all these illegals are saying they are coming to the UK, doesn’t that tell you something? They don’t care how they get here.
The French need to step up and Britain needs to stiffen up.
Mike-C:
emwmarine:
bald bloke:
switchlogic:
green456:
raymundo:
A few years ago I was taking a ship to Deliskilesi in Turkey and when passing to the south of Sicily a message was broadcast that a refugee boat with approx 350 people on board had been wrecked under the cliffs and that people were in the water, ‘all ships in the area please respond’ very strange that most shipborne radios went very quiet … including mine I must add !don’t think I could leave leave 350 people to die, no matter where they were from
Me neither. I’m not sure I’d ever have been able to sleep again had I acted in such a way.
I thought was Maritime law that you must respond to a SOS call .
It is. Anyone found to ignore a call for help is in big foo foo.
You’re looking for a Scottish guy by the name of Raymundo, from Morayshire, sails up and down the Thames !! Doesn’t like “foreigners” !!! Done a few years for Richard Long (so not to bright !!!).
Lets get a few facts right Mike, 1) not Scottish by birth but lives there now 2) Don’t object to ‘legal’ foreigners 3) Only continued to work for Richard Long because my daughter in law said I wouldn’t last a month so had to prove her wrong but agree I must be as thick as two short planks 'cos I’ve been a trucker anyway for other UK companys. As for answering distress calls … I replied to the one from Oostende radio when the Herald went over and stood bye for two hours until being relieved. Hope this helps
raymundo:
- not Scottish by birth but lives there now 2) Don’t object to ‘legal’ foreigners
Bloomin’ legal foreigners!
raymundo:
Mike-C:
emwmarine:
bald bloke:
switchlogic:
green456:
raymundo:
A few years ago I was taking a ship to Deliskilesi in Turkey and when passing to the south of Sicily a message was broadcast that a refugee boat with approx 350 people on board had been wrecked under the cliffs and that people were in the water, ‘all ships in the area please respond’ very strange that most shipborne radios went very quiet … including mine I must add !don’t think I could leave leave 350 people to die, no matter where they were from
Me neither. I’m not sure I’d ever have been able to sleep again had I acted in such a way.
I thought was Maritime law that you must respond to a SOS call .
It is. Anyone found to ignore a call for help is in big foo foo.
You’re looking for a Scottish guy by the name of Raymundo, from Morayshire, sails up and down the Thames !! Doesn’t like “foreigners” !!! Done a few years for Richard Long (so not to bright !!!).
Lets get a few facts right Mike, 1) not Scottish by birth but lives there now 2) Don’t object to ‘legal’ foreigners 3) Only continued to work for Richard Long because my daughter in law said I wouldn’t last a month so had to prove her wrong but agree I must be as thick as two short planks 'cos I’ve been a trucker anyway for other UK companys. As for answering distress calls … I replied to the one from Oostende radio when the Herald went over and stood bye for two hours until being relieved. Hope this helps
Australia and the States are crying out for guys like you !! Just missed the Herald too…have you ever had any dealings with chalk, tape or cones ?
Harry Monk:
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.And then we’ll change our mind and let anybody in.
I had an idea this sounded like a churchillean quote, and sure enough it is !! Grab that good old Bulldog spirit and find out a bit more of what he said, from respected peer reviewed academic research of course…
research.calvin.edu/german-propa … chul05.htm
In other news, Tony Blair has just won GQ magazines Philanthropist of the year award
Churchill was a Philanthropist too !!
Well at lest to us !! 
Mike-C:
raymundo:
Mike-C:
emwmarine:
bald bloke:
switchlogic:
green456:
raymundo:
A few years ago I was taking a ship to Deliskilesi in Turkey and when passing to the south of Sicily a message was broadcast that a refugee boat with approx 350 people on board had been wrecked under the cliffs and that people were in the water, ‘all ships in the area please respond’ very strange that most shipborne radios went very quiet … including mine I must add !don’t think I could leave leave 350 people to die, no matter where they were from
Me neither. I’m not sure I’d ever have been able to sleep again had I acted in such a way.
I thought was Maritime law that you must respond to a SOS call .
It is. Anyone found to ignore a call for help is in big foo foo.
You’re looking for a Scottish guy by the name of Raymundo, from Morayshire, sails up and down the Thames !! Doesn’t like “foreigners” !!! Done a few years for Richard Long (so not to bright !!!).
Lets get a few facts right Mike, 1) not Scottish by birth but lives there now 2) Don’t object to ‘legal’ foreigners 3) Only continued to work for Richard Long because my daughter in law said I wouldn’t last a month so had to prove her wrong but agree I must be as thick as two short planks 'cos I’ve been a trucker anyway for other UK companys. As for answering distress calls … I replied to the one from Oostende radio when the Herald went over and stood bye for two hours until being relieved. Hope this helps
Australia and the States are crying out for guys like you !! Just missed the Herald too…have you ever had any dealings with chalk, tape or cones ?
I was stuck in traffic myself. Missed it by two minutes
Mike-C:
peterm:
chillistrucker, I really sympathise with you mate. A head injury finished my working life but I was looked after a lot better than you have been. I thought I’d had a rough deal until I just read your post. Makes me really glad we came to Oz back in '74.As for the do gooders and bleeding hearts… [zb] 'em !
How can you sympathise , you’re in the opposite situation? Australia is now a nation of immigrants who said [zb] 'em to the Natives ?
If the popular press is to be believed then UK residents don’t want these uncontrolled immigrants coming here ? In the same vein, if the Aboriginals had a say in if you came there, what do you think they’d say ?
And as the process of “assimilation” continues in Australia, with the likes of yourself i see your future as rosy !!
Eerrm what the ■■■■ has me sympathising with ct’s head injury got to do with anything, and what’ve the aborigines got to do with me being here ?.. nothing ! You’re wrong, I can vote there if I want to, but can’t see what being able to vote or not has anything to do with being sympathetic to ct’s injury. Whatever you’re on, I’ll have some.
Mike C … Never had dealings with any chalk tape or cones, how does that go 'cos I’m sure you have in your very varied career. Whether you or Luke (or anyone else for that matter) believe me or not but I couldn’t really give a toss but I do only deal in facts not B/S unlike some on Trucknet, no names no pack drill either Luke. Nor do I have an agenda in playing the ‘big ship captain’ bit as that’s a bit of a dead end job now same as trucking really due to the cheap rates our Eastern colleagues will work for but still far better financially than trucking. And as for saying I must be a bit simple for working for Richard Long well, I found the job very interesting and varied and needing a bit more savvy than just going from the same place everyday to another same place everyday and pushing a few supermarket cages onto a dock or taillift, how many days induction does that take ? JCB and other manufacturers of the machines we carried (and Richard) expected you to know how to load the truck properly without spending a week being shown how to do it, and the legal routes to get to the destination without any hassle.
ps. I am never out of work either due to limited experience in either field, done it an got the tee shirt (an little bits of paper as they mean more than the knowledge nowadays) believe it or not 
Best regards
Ray
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Surprised to see you back Luke, thought you’d had enough of going round in circles and would not be participating any more. My opinions are as said :- My Opinions, but the facts I state about myself are as stated :- Facts not B/S. think there is a wee bit of difference there. Anyway have a nice day/weekend yourself. And believe me it was bloody horrible lying off the Zeebrugge approach channel watching helplessly while all the rescue attempts were ongoing, but quick response from many sources were commendable just like the one off Sicily 9 years ago. Rgds
Yes, we heard you the first time…
switchlogic:
Edit…I can’t be bothered
Good, then why don’t you do one. Bye !
Ooooo, touchy 