The RNLI said it had been inundated with donations and messages of support since its chief executive hit out at Nigel Farage’s claim that it was running a “migrant taxi service”. This was never a fundraising campaign – we simply wanted to tell the story of our crews and make it clear that our charity exists to save lives at sea. Keep up the great work @RNLI because as some of your disparagers repeatedly told us All Lives Matter. Dan O’Mahoney, the clandestine channel threat commander at the Home Office, said: “We are proud to work alongside RNLI crews. This unacceptable rise in dangerous small boat crossings is fuelled by serious organised criminals who profit from human misery and put lives at risk.

Source: The Guardian July 29, 2021 16:52 UTC