Theresa and the drones

This is the kind of thing that destroys governments.  The Times reports:

Chris Grayling shelved plans to introduce laws regulating drone use in Britain despite being warned on multiple occasions about the risk they posed to airports, The Times has learnt.

Gatwick was forced last night to shut for the third time in three days after another drone sighting, causing further misery for thousands of passengers. It reopened after about 90 minutes. A man and woman were later arrested by police.

The army and police had appeared powerless to stop drone operators despite deploying a counter-drone system that they said was capable of jamming the devices.

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This year the Department for Transport quietly ditched plans for a draft bill aimed at controlling drones and developing technology to prevent them from being used near airports. The legislation, which had been due for publication in the spring, was dropped amid pressures on the department, with civil servants diverted to work on Brexit.

Issues like Brexit. like homelessness. like social care. are complicated.  Voters understand that and may forgive a government which fails to deal with them adequately (although the present bunch of tossers has hardly made a decent fist of trying).

But when the government stands by, impotent in the face of what is little more than a toy disrupting the lives of many thousands of citizens, there will be an account to be settled.  It will not be forgotten.