The small boats making their way across the English Channel most weeks are not a crisis in the making, since they’re the crisis that’s already been made. This is a deluge of numbers of people into a system that was already broken.
This isn’t a problem for someone else, but it’s a crisis for the UK. The State looks weak, and its people look beleaguered. It isn’t professional. It isn’t progressive. This is a bursting at the seams of a Civil Service now in terminal decline.
