Reform insist Bayeux Tapestry proves Britain has been failing to deal with the small boats problem for a thousand years | NewsThump
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Article written by Rich Smith
Reform UK has discovered irrefutable medieval evidence that Britain's small boats crisis predates the Home Office by about nine centuries, courtesy of some embroidered Normans paddling over uninvited. The joke lands beautifully by reframing the Norman Conquest as a failed immigration enforcement operation, which is both historically absurd and politically pointed in equal measure.
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Turns out Nigel Farage's ancestors were complaining about French Channel-crossers all the way back in 1066, so at least the party has a consistent policy platform.
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