Mark Andrews: Work-from-home border czar, villains for hire, and who is the real-life Cliff Barnes?
Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week that was
How did you mark the big day then? For me, it was all about getting the ambience right. The lighting was dimmed, a bit of Barry White on the CD player, settling down with a nice bottle of red to watch footage of handcuffed migrants being frogmarched up the steps to a plane, while Home Office officials raided a dodgy car wash.
I'm talking, of course about the Government's new Let's Be Tough on Immigration Day, held for the first time on Monday. I don't know about you, but I found it a bit of a let down. There was no real narrative to the video, no suspense where the plans went awry, and we never got to see the human side of the officials wielding the handcuffs. All you really saw was people walking about in handcuffs.
It wasn't a patch on Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away. They'll have to come up with some more engaging storylines if they want to make Let's Be Tough on Immigration Day an annual event.
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And if that doesn't convince you that the Government means business on immigration, wait until you hear about its incoming border czar, John Tuckett, who is so scary he can turn the people-trafficking gangs to jelly with just an icy stare across a video conferencing app.
