It's
déjà vu all over again! It seems Tory platitudes holiday on the SE coast every summer season.
2019: de Pfeffel: '
we'll send you back.' Patel: '
we're seeking urgent discussions with the French.' Elphicke: '
only when migrants and traffickers alike know that they will not succeed in crossing the English Channel will this crisis come to an end.'
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1169551/dover-migrant-crossing-illegal-immigration-boris-johnson-news-latest
The trouble with RB's line (#33) is that
it is increasingly easy to 'blame the government.' That's because governments now have unprecedented reach and increasingly ambitious (and fearful) nook-and-cranny interventionist programmes (we're all inside one right now, if you hadn't noticed). They want us to believe they're constantly 'doing something' about
everything, and that 'doing something' occasionally runs into surmountable obstacles (the French, folks in Leicester). It's a fiction, of course: they can stop neither a virus nor a dinghy. But the rules of fiction mean that, all the while they insist they can, we can hold them to it.
