RNLI fundraiser for 'Flying Farage' hovercraft jumps £5,000 after far-right thugs attack hero volunteers

He sounds amazing - and these days, he must be pretty brave, which is sad. I hope the RNLI has a boost in donations after the disgusting amount of abuse its volunteers have suffered (again) over recent days.

Good for him, I’ve made a donation to the RNLI specifically because of the nastiness they’re getting.

As a sailor, and supporter of RNLI for much of my life, I am disgusted at the attitude shown by these morons. Yet should they ever get into trouble at sea the RNLI will still go out to help them, in the same way that the Mountain Rescue do on land, where stupid people deliberately go out in the wrong sort of clothes, no maps and thinking the world can begin and end with their wretched mobile phones. I am proud of the small efforts we have been able to contribute whilst at sea , helping to look out for casualties, and know how much they do with no expectations of any reward or to be on wretched social media, just the wonderful knowledge that another human is saved,

All those people worried about an invading army of men of fighting age.
And that army was already among us.

Maremia

All those people worried about an invading army of men of fighting age.
And that army was already among us.

Spot on, Maremia I am astonished that anyone can defend them.

Simon has posted a hastily removed tweet from Farage about the RNLI on his instagram page…thankfully people copied it before Farage deleted it….

What did it say?

Was it this one?

The future of the UK😡

Well that's an interesting observation, isn't it? So next time any of my family go on a boat they would need to carry good ID to prove that they are a British citizen and therefore worthy of rescuing should their boat get into difficulty. The RNLI will have to change their motto from "The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea" to "The RNLI is the charity that saves some lives at sea as long as they qualify for saving" No wonder it got taken down pdq!

Yes, I follow him, @Cossy - he popped up on my Facebook feed as we support the same football team.

I’ve also donated to the RNLI as a direct result of some of the vileness towards them I’ve observed.

I had not heard of this, so thank you, Cossy. I live by the sea and will be sure to tell my family swimmers/ surfers/ paddle boarders/ kite surfers to sing the National Anthem should they ever need rescuing, to ensure that they are not left to drown.

Of course nobody should insult or attack in any way the marvellous Lifeboat Service, all volunteers.
Fortunately it’s only a very small percentage ( rescue of migrants) of the overall work that they do.
I think what many find galling is that the migrants refuse any help from the French ( not really in need of rescue then) and will only be picked up by British boats in order to get here.

Yes, Graphite, thanks.
Was trying to find that quote for JenniRen.

The migrant boat which arrived on Sunday was refused landing permission at Portsmouth and Southampton.

It eventually was brought to shore at Eastney Langstone Harbour.

I wonder why the harbour authorities denied it.

The RNLI is one of the charities i give regularly to apart from childrens charities. Have done so for years. As a past surfer, i always appreciated work done by the lifeguards

I used to do the annual door to door collections in envelopes for them until they decided not to raise money that way.

Oreo, I do feel that some charities are throwing the baby out with the bathwater in the way that they raise funds.
A recent stand outside a supermarket was unable to take any cash donations, and existed exclusively to ask people to sign up for their lottery.
I don't do lotteries, so my money stayed in my purse, and I'm sure that I wasn't the only one.
I understand that the weekly/ monthly lottery is a brilliant way of raising money, but ....

It comes to something when British people can bring themselves to attack courageous humanitarians who are risking their lives to save other people from drowning.

Chocolatelovinggran

Oreo, I do feel that some charities are throwing the baby out with the bathwater in the way that they raise funds.
A recent stand outside a supermarket was unable to take any cash donations, and existed exclusively to ask people to sign up for their lottery.
I don't do lotteries, so my money stayed in my purse, and I'm sure that I wasn't the only one.
I understand that the weekly/ monthly lottery is a brilliant way of raising money, but ....

It's a 'catch-22' situation.

Cash donations render the collector vulnerable to street-gang robbery (assuming people still carry cash) and people are reluctant to sign-up to regular online donations.

There is an answer, but charities need to invest in the software to generate secure, individual payment links on the street. And the public needs to be made aware of this system, one that means the donor doesn't have to sign-up to a direct-debit mandate on the street.

The problem is that few people would be happy about street card transactions.
Is the charity worker a bonefide person? It would be easy to con people into tapping their card but who knows where that money would go or if the card machine had been rigged to get bank details.
In my experience people were happy to put a bit of cash in an envelope and we were all allocated a few local streets to collect from.

Oreo

The problem is that few people would be happy about street card transactions.
Is the charity worker a bonefide person? It would be easy to con people into tapping their card but who knows where that money would go or if the card machine had been rigged to get bank details.
In my experience people were happy to put a bit of cash in an envelope and we were all allocated a few local streets to collect from.

Yes - you're right.

I'm thinking though of the infrastructure called "RtP" - 'Request to Pay' which is essentially a digital Giro invoice.

You don't use your card, but you do need your smartphone for this kind of transaction, so the risk is similar.

People standing outside supermarkets give more confidence that the charity is genuine - but fraudsters and scammers are so bold these days that you can't really be sure about that...

I had a charity actually knock on my door. They were genuine enough, but I was in the middle of evening dinner so not best pleased.

Also, they would not allow me time to consider - I told them I could - and would - access their well-known website and probably make a suitable commitment. However, they were not happy about that because they were "chuggers" who, I believe, are paid some sort of commission. So, if I signed up online, they'd not benefit. Tough, I closed the door.

So Oreo, I don't know what the answer is, but it's certainly not accosting people on the street... nor knocking on the door at 8 in the evening (even tho' I understand why they choose this time) - and definitely not hurrying people to sign-up there and then for the sake of a commission.

Individuals and gangs rob people on the street - and there's very little police presence to deter them either because so many cuts were made to the force - IIRC, a police 'chief' did say at the time that this would lead to them being unable to 'police' satisfactorily. But, that's another discussion.

There must be a way to donate to charity in these straitened times, but blowed if I know what it is...

Just a quick update, the fund raised specifically for the RNLI, which receive 100% of the donations directly via GoFundMe, raised via this man, has surpassed £1m, enough to purchase the hovercraft lifeboat, which in tidal areas with quick sand or miles of mud, is really a lifesaver!

We done again Simon Harris, ManBehavingDadly!

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