Anatomy of the Bayeux travesty: They set off from Normandy and landed here 36 hours later… inside the longest and most farcical crossing of the whole small-boat crisis – GUY ADAMS reveals what it tells us about our broken borders

It lasted more than 36 hours and involved six coastguard and Border Force vessels, one French Navy helicopter and three coaches which travelled in a blue-light convoy with seven police cars and vans.

Throw in a knife-wielding hard-Right YouTube personality in a speedboat, plus an angry mob of balaclava-clad supporters and the whole thing adds up to an extremely expensive Anglo-French farce.

The so-called Bayeux Travesty, which this week saw 60-odd migrants make what is undoubtedly the longest and most chaotic Channel crossing since the rubber dinghy crisis began, speaks volumes for the broken nature of our asylum system.

Here, hour by preposterous

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