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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I don't think that anyone disputes that destroying identity documents sounds dodgy. We all get that. But the above is not evidence that it is happening. And as Ian pointed out, a mobile phone is not an identity document.

From the Farage video, it seems that one person on the boat gets their trip across the channel free if they recruit enough people to join them. It makes sense that this person would have the contact details of the people smugglers and would not want to share these details with the authorities for fear of reprisals from the people smugglers hence throwing their phone overboard.

Andrew, Ian isn't being objective.

You're well capable of objectivity. Justifying the chucking away of mobile phones is bizarre. These people arrive in the UK without documentation they must have had in order to traverse Europe. This makes them cheats. Aren't we in the realms of, here?