The UK Mega Dinghy
It looks like the UK is getting a new national humiliation each week lately: The migrant mega dinghy is a national humiliation . Well, if yesterday's post here is any indicator, if your ruling class has people with names like Sebastian and Zanny in it, you deserve every national humiliation you get. (Full disclosure: there is a squirrel in our back yard that hadn't been named until yesterday. Zanny it was.) It looks like Andy Burnham has achieved what his predecessors could not. He has found a solution to the small-boats crisis. . . In the early hours of Monday morning, a 49-foot dinghy carrying 230 illegal immigrants arrived on British shores from France. It is by some margin the largest number of migrants to have arrived in a single vessel. It surpasses by far the previous record of 165, a feat of human trafficking achieved late last month. As many people have already pointed out, the ‘small boats crisis’ may now technically be over, as we enter the era of migrant crui...