A "small boat" crewed by "fighting age men" profiled against three wind turbines (echoing perhaps Blake's "dark satanic mills"). Enough to cause palpitations in the breast of Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe who patriotically posted the photo below and swore to use "every tool" at his disposal to secure the deportation of the "illegal migrants".
Except the boat turned out to be crewed by four rowers attempting to navigate from Lands End to John O'Groats for charity, who were understandably alarmed when a group of people with nothing better to do on a Thursday evening gathered on the beach and started shining torches in their faces.
Lowe, who made no apologies for "being vigilant for my constituents", nevertheless made a donation of £1,000 to the rowers' charity.
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@BritishFailedAesthetic That is appalling. People act like complete cowards on social media. Earlier this week Farage alleged that RNLI was providing a "taxi service" and implied that they should pick and choose their rescues on the basis of first impressions.
Apparently someone posted "where is the navy?" . . one of the rowers on board was a retired Royal Marine.
@SunshineGirl Oh yeah, they complain about the RNLI. One day one of these people will be humbled when it's one of their family or even children that get resued by one of these volunteers.
@BritishFailedAesthetic They don't seem to understand that international maritime law obliges anyone in control of a seaworthy vessel to come to the aid of anyone in distress.
@BritishFailedAesthetic He was involved in the rescue of Yemeni pirates . . minutes after torpedoing their boat. When you are in a dangerous environment you don't stop to consider the ethnicity of a drowning person or the political implications of bringing them to shore.
