'Clandestine Channel Threat Commander'

"The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has appointed former National Crime Agency executive Dan O'Mahoney as the UK's Clandestine Channel Threat Commander."

This is not a lost episode of The Thick of It, though some thickness was involved.

Yes, Priti is employed a former US Army, I think, office, to stop the flotilla of dingies coming from France.

Maybe some kind of roadblock?

Thing is, a few boats, maybe double figures, have arrived in Kent over the weekend. Their perilous journey is not illegal under international law, nor do they have to claim asylum in France. It is what people have always done, look for a better life, wanting their children to have advantages they never did.

Tackling the cause of the migration would stop it, though that would mean admitting decades of failure on foreign policy by a succession of UK Governments. And if people think Israeli annexation of the West Bank is going to help anything....

The other thing is that blanket coverage of migrants landing in Kent defelcts from 65,000 additional deaths, failures in PPE procurement, failure in policy, Dominic Cummings and his multiple trips to Durham, not following the science, delay in enforcing a lockdown causing 20,000 deaths, GOvernment policy to empty IC wards of elderly into care causing 20,000 more deaths, but tell me again how six kids in a boat are going to "steal" from the NHS!