Online Sales of ‘Refugee Boats’ by Chinese Firms, Shameless

[Alexjkr]

9 hours ago, KhunLA said:

And CN helping people flee tyrannical govts, oppression, and war zones is a bad thing ?

CN is China I guess. "flee tyrannical govts, oppression" you mean just like China? At least China bullies countries to take back its own refugees. May be the UK should bully France more to take back the ones crossing to the UK.

[mrwebb8825]

18 hours ago, Social Media said:

Neville Blackwood, a former UK police officer and expert in international law enforcement, was blunt in his assessment. “Nobody seems to be in fear of arrest or prosecution. It’s business as usual on the Alibaba site,” he said. “These are flimsy boats and engines that aren’t appropriate to set sail and, potentially, people could lose their lives. To advertise them is just wrong; it’s putting people’s lives at risk.”

Seriously? He's bitching about product quality? The UK is doomed.

[josephbloggs]

13 hours ago, lavender19 said:

Hopefully they are all faulty 

Yeah, let's hope lots of people drown!

[josephbloggs]

12 hours ago, black tabby12345 said:

 

Sometime ago, I have heard the defective rate of Chinese products is as high as 30%.

Did you? Amazing. Did a friend tell you? 

[MicroB]

The Telegraph are a bit slow. The Guardian was pointing this out 4 years ago

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/28/good-anti-sinking-capacity-lifejacket-optional-journey-of-a-refugee-boat

 

Or Turkey

 

 

https://news.sky.com/story/a-people-smuggler-who-sends-migrants-across-the-channel-reveals-how-the-small-boats-trade-works-12806865

https://news.sky.com/story/people-smugglers-how-the-police-exposed-the-dark-world-of-small-boat-channel-crossings-12805980

 

Or Blighty

 

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/people-smuggling-gang-tried-to-use-rundown-boats-for-cross-channel-migrant-journeys

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6q6wz765eo

 

Note the footage from the BBC.  Mercury Marine is an American make. SO are we now saying American outboard manufacturers are part of the people smuggling gig?

 

 

Its organised crime. Most of the boats are stolen (because, criminals), or from the black maket (cash only, no questions asked).

[KhunLA]

20 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

No such thing as unsinkable refugee boats and thousands have been killed crossing the English Channel and the med

 

 

Think that falls under an obvious "user error" voiding any warranty 

 

Live with your choices ... besides, sharks have to eat.  Nothing should go to waste in nature.

[Bkk Brian]

41 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

 

Think that falls under an obvious "user error" voiding any warranty 

 

Live with your choices ... besides, sharks have to eat.  Nothing should go to waste in nature.

Great you find the death of refugees amusing

[KhunLA]

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Great you find the death of refugees amusing

Not amused or wish death or harm on people, but overloading a boat in open waters ... well, you can't fix stupid.

 

People die every day, get over it.  It's nature.  I make fun and chuckle about my own pending death.

 

Was actually talking about that yesterday at dinner.   Got on the subject of when I die, and told the wife to wrap me up in plastic, the duct tape the hell out it, before putting my butt in the hole, so the worms & bugs don't get to me.

 

Her response ... hell no, you're going in the chipper, and then the compost pile.   Nothing goes to waste in nature.

 

Told the bi-atch I'm coming back to haunt her A$$ 

[Bkk Brian]

1 minute ago, KhunLA said:

Not amused or wish death or harm on people, but overloading a boat in open waters ... well, you can't fix stupid.

 

People die every day, get over it.  It's nature.  I make fun and chuckle about my own pending death.

 

Was actually talking about that yesterday at dinner.   Got on the subject of when I die, and told the wife to wrap me up in plastic, the duct tape the hell out it, before putting my butt in the hole, so the worms & bugs don't get to me.

 

Her response ... hell no, you're going in the chipper, and then the compost pile.   Nothing goes to waste in nature.

 

Told the bi-atch I'm coming back to haunt her A$$ 

Too late, as per the Chinese in this topic, your post was Shameless

 

54 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

 

Think that falls under an obvious "user error" voiding any warranty 

 

Live with your choices ... besides, sharks have to eat.  Nothing should go to waste in nature.

 

[black tabby12345]

7 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

Did you? Amazing. Did a friend tell you? 

 

Not from someone near me.

From some mainstream news.

As the voice from the foreign firms operating in China.

[BangkokReady]

On 4/22/2025 at 9:12 AM, Chomper Higgot said:

Those market forces the rightwing worship are, we are told, never wrong.

 

That's more about setting prices and efficient use of resources.  It doesn't cover morality or legality.  That's why there always needs to be regulation.

[Chomper Higgot]

36 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

That's more about setting prices and efficient use of resources.  It doesn't cover morality or legality.  That's why there always needs to be regulation.

What’s morally wrong, let alone illegal, about selling inflatable boats to people who want to buy inflatable boats?

[BangkokReady]

11 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

What’s morally wrong, let alone illegal, about selling inflatable boats to people who want to buy inflatable boats?

 

You claimed that people say that market forces are never wrong.  This is false.  Market forces require regulation.

[Chomper Higgot]

11 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

You claimed that people say that market forces are never wrong.  This is false.  Market forces require regulation.

Good luck trying to regulate China selling inflatable boats to people who want to buy inflatable boats.

 

[BangkokReady]

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Good luck trying to regulate China selling inflatable boats to people who want to buy inflatable boats.

 

This doesn't have anything to do with what I said.  You could simply thank me for proving you with much needed insight.  🤷‍♂️

[Hamus Yaigh]

On 4/22/2025 at 9:19 AM, Bkk Brian said:

So you only looked at the pictures and failed to read

The story of most MAGA voters learning capacity.

[Card]

On 4/22/2025 at 12:16 PM, FlorC said:

And now China is shipping in the Fentanyl , one of the reasons Trump put higher tariffs on China.

Supply and demand - the basis of that great American capitalism that they are so fond of quoting.