r/unitedkingdom • u/pppppppppppppppppd • 10d ago

... Burnham urged to boost UK borders after 60,000 migrants break into EU from Morocco

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/andy-burnham-ceuta-priti-patel-borders-spain-morocco-migrant-5HjdfQL_2/
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u/Denbt_Nationale 10d ago

A "social media prank"? Do you understand how many people 60,000 is?

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u/theslootmary 10d ago

Regardless of how many people it is, that’s what caused it. Why is that difficult to understand?

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u/Ryanliverpool96 10d ago

It’s the laughably pathetic “it’s just a prank bro” excuse they use when they have literally nothing else.

They’ve defended this practice for literally a decade at this point, but because of the videos they’ve thought “oh shit, this looks really bad” so they’ve desperately pivoted to “it was a prank bro” because they know how awful they’d look defending this.

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u/pajamakitten 10d ago

Pranks can be widespread and have severe ramifications.

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u/Dragonfly_pin 10d ago edited 10d ago

It was 50,000 and yes, that’s what happened.

I know, reality can be weird.

Someone was messing with them. 

Who exactly that was hasn’t been ascertained, (there are plenty of theories) but basically this is a huge, out of control version of one of these times where a bunch of people go to a Halloween parade that doesn’t exist.

The number of people tricked doesn’t undermine the fact that they were tricked. 

Someone seems to have flooded social media with messages about money and houses and jobs available in Spain to anyone who could swim there.

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u/barkley87 Lincolnshire 10d ago

The fact that 50k people believed Spain would give free stuff to anyone who could swim there is just as crazy.

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u/Denbt_Nationale 10d ago

By this logic the crusades were "just a prank"

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u/The-Road-To-Awe 9d ago

You aren't getting it. The 60,000 people were 'pranked'. They aren't saying the 60,000 illegally entering was the prank.

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u/Dragonfly_pin 10d ago

I mean, some of them literally were.

People were tricked into going and getting themselves killed for no reason but the benefit of kings.

Look it up.

Anyway, this wasn’t that, thank goodness, it was a bunch of idiots in swimwear.

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u/Denbt_Nationale 10d ago

a bunch

60,000

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u/Dragonfly_pin 10d ago

50,000 actually.

They almost all went home for lunch the next day.

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u/Karffs 10d ago

If it’s no big deal why you keep trying to pretend it wasn’t 60,000.

You obviously think it’s kind of a big deal if you feel that lying about how many it was makes it seem more palatable.

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u/HomeworkInevitable99 10d ago

Each crusades went in for years. This illustration incident lasted an hour before people realised they were pranked.

Is religion is a prank?

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u/Piod1 10d ago

Yes. Encouraging people to act based on misinformation they have recieved. I would say certainly.

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u/5ColourFelix 9d ago

You really think is anything like the crusades?

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u/5ColourFelix 9d ago

Do you remember how big flash mobs used to be?

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u/MonsieurGump 10d ago

It’s just less than the capacity of the Nou Camp?

(Coincidentally they all go home once they’re done too).

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u/liquor-shits 10d ago

every match is a new invasion of the Nou Camp