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Beans is never fazed by the challenge, but the characters can’t help but come across as flimsy masks.

"This is a bad sign. It suggests an unchastened Supreme Court poised to help Trump suppress lawful votes on the flimsiest basis," added Harvard legal scholar Laurence Tribe.

Comparing one to a “death trap”, he says it would be “appallingly dangerous” to pack dozens of people onto these boats for a Channel crossing, because of what appears to be a “tremendously flimsy” design.

These are apartment buildings with carports, garages or retail stores on the ground floor, with flimsy supports that can collapse in the side-to-side shaking of an earthquake.

A Home Office spokesperson said the gangs arranging the transport "only care about profit" - and the more recent crossings had seen "more people crammed into flimsy and dangerous boats".