An Appalling Account

Well-fed, well-dressed young men looking nothing like refugees cross the English Channel in small boats in large numbers and run up the beach at Dungeness to be taken away in waiting cars, says a woman who lives nearby (BBC Radio 4 "Today" this morning). These boats aren't being escorted by the UK Border Force or the RNLI. They are coming in "under the radar". This is an appalling neglect of Britain's borders, which can't be explained away as being international law, in the same way that escorted illegals are. Boris Johnson, no longer Britain's Prime Minister from next week, has shown great concern for Ukraine's borders while being totally indifferent to Britain's porous borders. He should be held to account for this. It's very serious. But there seems to be no machinery for bringing this about. Why isn't there? And there's no evidence of top politicians wanting to end this flagrant breech of justice and the law. Why not?