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'You're having a laugh': Nigel Farage scoffs as a man who tried to steal a fishing boat to reach France faces only a theft charge

A harbour at night, its moored boats reflected in calm water. Olly Swift, the 31-year-old skipper of the Ramsgate trawler Carousel, said the man snapped mooring ropes and rammed the pier with the crew asleep below, risking losses of up to £100,000.
A harbour at night, its moored boats reflected in calm water. Olly Swift, the 31-year-old skipper of the Ramsgate trawler Carousel, said the man snapped mooring ropes and rammed the pier with the crew asleep below, risking losses of up to £100,000.

Posting on X, Nigel Farage shares a phone call with Olly Swift, the 31-year-old skipper of the Ramsgate whelk trawler Carousel, who relays the police explanation behind Farage's scorn: endangering life, officers told him, applies only to crossings from France to Britain, not the other way. Swift describes a man who snapped the mooring ropes at 3am and rammed the pier with the crew asleep below.

Nigel Farage brands the 3am incident a hijack 'by a migrant' and says 'Our country sinks deeper every day'.

'He's put people's lives at risk. The crew could have died,' skipper Olly Swift told the Daily Mail.

Up to £100,000 in lost earnings could hit skipper Olly Swift, whose trawler is 'my pride and joy'.

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