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Well, indeed, and before we even get to the figures, something else, I think, that we'll have our audience incandescent
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is news that the flotilla of small boats marking the Dunkirk anniversary, 66 small boats as part of that Operation Dynamo commemoration
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were forced to divert, we're told, today because of this, the Border Force vessels escorting
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I should say, these small boats over from France. So that flotilla had to hold up basically
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and wait for that migrant boat to be escorted past them before they could continue on their
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journey to the other side of France, of course, where they are going to be for the 85th anniversary
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of the Dunkirk evacuation. So understandably, I'm sure there will be a lot of people very
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very angry at that commemoration being disrupted in this way. But this is the daily routine
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of what we're seeing coming across the English Channel any time the weather improves. And
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Today we got a three window that began this morning allowing these migrant boats to come across in very significant numbers You looking at exclusive video that we obtained shot on behalf of the people smugglers
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and being pumped out around the world to tell other migrants to come to chance their arm to get across the English Channel
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And you can see from the video thousands of people making their way towards the coast, towards the dunes
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to meet up with the people smugglers and the boats to take them across the channel
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Mark, I'm trying my very, very best to keep my composure. I heard that story in real time. You broke that story to me in real time about the Dunco Flotilla
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I'm still, I feel like I've been punched. I honestly feel like I've been punched in the stomach
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to interrupt something of such historic, national and patriotic importance, a totemic moment of vanquishing the Nazis, of survival in our darkest hour
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of using the channel as an escape route from genuine terror, to get to the safety of Britain, to rebuild
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I feel like I'm going to cry. I honestly feel like I'm going to cry. To get back to Britain, to rebuild, to vanquish the Nazis
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that commemoration being interrupted today because these bloody boats are in the channel
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and we're rescuing them. Our taxpayers are paying for this and that service being interrupted and desecrated
