Reform UK has returned to this mood music once again as it sets out new policies on illegal migration. It is simple electoral calculus to appeal to enormous, if inchoate, public anger and frustration over illegal migration. Few would deny that there is a great deal more to do on controlling illegal migration. Former Royal Navy commander Tom Sharpe explained to the BBC that the larger warships ‘are not best used for ferrying people around… you’re better off using an actual ferry’. It is interesting to speculate how the Royal Navy and the other services feel.