It was on the three o'clock news on heart fm, our local radio station.
Political? Of course it's political, this guy is a ******* idiot, last week he organised a pretend "test" to prepare for lorry parks in Kent on an airfield that has been sold for housing which involved 80 lorries driving in and out of the airport and declared it a success and Kent was ready to deal with the backlog that will come from a no deal Brexit.
The week before that, he awarded a multi million pound government contract to lay on additional ferry services to cope with Brexit to a company who owned no ferries and never had, who would operate from a harbour that hasn't been used or dredged for 25 years and is incapable of housing a ferry, and whose terms and conditions on their website turned out to have been copied and pasted from a food delivery company.
So political? Too right, Politics is the single remaining career that does not require any formal qualifications or experience to do and Chris Grayling is the single most perfect example of why this shouldn't be the case.
Gatwick Defences? Don't make me laugh, this consisted of three guys and a DJI Aeroscope on the terminal roof and around 20 unpaid special constables standing in fields surrounding the airport, all the rest of the "defences" we're show theatre, the "drone detection device" was a (likely empty) Thule car roof box bolted onto the top of a pole which itself was bolted onto a van parked on the perimeter road with two fat coppers sat in it asleep.
How do I know this? I live close enough to see Gatwick with a pair of bins and drive past almost daily, it was like watching a Benny Hill tv sketch watching the so called "experts" run up and down the runway chasing imaginary ufos or their own police drone.
As someone else said, most of the important people involved couldn't find their own car keys let along a rouge drone and we are supposed to believe they know what's best? The incident commander didn't even know anybody with a pair of googles could tune into the video feed of a drone if the operator was using FPV until and FPV racer told them after almost getting himself arrested, they are that clueless.
If rotor riot couldn't get a race drone at full chat to go through a car windscreen, then one stands no chance of bringing down an airliner.