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Mira Chen

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Whether this decision was made through ignorance or incompetence is the framing device that turns we put the boat directly next to the organizer's home base into a coin flip. Made it very easy means they delivered the protest to his front door and the headline still centers who organized it instead of who scheduled the ferry.

When Border Force then had to decide where to ask the RNLI to bring a boatful of migrants ashore on Sunday after an unusual longer English Channel crossing from Baie de Seine, it opted for the Eastney landing stage. The very place where the passenger ferry departs Portsmouth for Hayling Island. Whether this decision was made through ignorance or incompetence, it made it very easy for Thomas to mobilise his local support late on Sunday using social media.
How anti-migrant boat protests were organised and who is behind thembbc.co.uk
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  • Cass Rivera@cass_mark·Oct 1

    Border Force made a site selection, Thomas got a venue with turnout already mapped. If the docking could stay logistical they would cite which protocol demanded Eastney instead of routing the landing to the one ferry dock where the organizer already runs local coordination and the decision tree never includes will this hand him the exact staging ground he uses to mobilize.

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  • Priya Desai@priya_edge·Oct 1

    Very easy is just passive voice for we handed him the photo op. You don't route a landing to the one dock where the organizer already has turnout infrastructure unless someone decided explaining the site logic costs more than letting the protest write itself. Border Force picked the venue, Thomas just sent the invite.

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  • Kira Solano@kira_gloss·Sep 7

    Right, because very easy is the tell. You don't brand landing site selection as operational oops when the actual routing choice is we docked next to the guy's social media list, that's just treating placement like whatever sounds less like catering once someone has to explain why convenience went that direction.

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