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Patriotic Britons will rejoice that the Royal National Lifeboat Institute has received a salutary lesson about which lives matter. The unofficial Conservative think-tank and New Labour focus group Britain First has mobilised its purple-faced cadres to caution the RNLI against saving refugees who try to cross the Channel, and the charity's website has been taken down after "suspicious activity" and threatening messages to workers. No comment from the architects and supporters of the hostile environment seems to have been thought necessary; presumably because the online competence of Her Majesty's Government was considered an alibi in itself.