How about the Tories dock one of those barges in London, right outside Westminster and that could be all the MP’s second homes. They could add solar PV panels to the walls and roof and save us all the cost of subsidising their energy bills. Add in a couple of compost toilets and solar powered showers and it would be perfect. You could even get the Tories to round up their rich banking pals to sponsor a satirical Banksy piece of art on the external walls that are not panel clad to add some engagement to the public realm. Then all those second homes could be used to house migrants. Win. Win. Win.
Skipping over the ethics of this, we had something like 2,500 people arrive by small boats so far this year. This is just more red-meat that is not really going to touch the problem. Stop dicking around and get back to processing people’s claims quickly, get them out of the system asap rather than forcing them to linger in limbo for months or years at a time.
It’s not *that* bad. Still better than Butlins.
I was going to make a criticism but I just can’t be arsed now. It’s comically shit.
Looks better than most university dorms.
Hopefully they can get more to house all the illegals there.
I have family in the area and this is very unpopular with the locals. Apparently the local council didn’t get any say in the decision and it’s been forced on them by central government. Given Weymouth and Portland are tourist towns they are pretty unhappy about it and are concerned about what impact it will have on visitors to the area. From what I understand the men are effectively prisoners on the ship but will be allowed out on occasion.
Edit: I’ve just read that they can come and go from the barge freely. This is obviously going to cause some issues so I don’t blame the locals for not liking this at all.
A lot of very naive comments below. Most migrants are not genuine asylum seekers, they are economic migrants attracted by the welfare state and prospects of joining their friends and relatives. Migration watch estimates 87.4% are men, with a tiny proportion of women and children. Most are also very poorly educated, with few having any of the technical skills we need to maintain the NHS, industry, and academia. Look at any UK highstreet today and you see the corrosive influence of unplanned migration. And don’t get me wrong I am all for migration – I am a migrant!
I live in a small town with less than 200,000 inhabitants, and the demographics are gradually changing in the way we see in Luton, Telford etc. Examples include my Albanian barber who asks for cash payment and puts my 20 in his pocket (Albanians are notorious for money laundering), then there are the three kebab shops, and various Turkish restaurants. The Africans and Arabs are less visible and have been housed (for now) on the edges of town in areas that are slowly becoming no-go areas for whites.
The resentment on both sides is growing and yet nothing is done to correct a trend that is clearly damaging the economic and social prospects of the UK. Here is a fact that should have you all thinking. 62% of the Europeans who left the UK after Brexit had degrees. They were also mostly economically active and made a much larger contribution to those who came after from the M.E. and Africa. Even a stupid person should be able to grasp what happens when you replace an engineer with a rapper, curry cook, barber or groomer. I say that and then watch Question Time in despair when the socialists rant about how the Conservatives are messing up the country, the fact is both sides of the House have no idea how to deal with migration, Brexit, and demographic winter bought on by aging.
Prison hulks in 2023. What’ll be the next 18th century innovation revived.
So about 1% of a yearly crossing… and where do the remaining 99% go?
In a very Tory area too. That will help locals realise that the problem is closer than they think and will impact them too. Other coastal areas may wish to pay attention because they will look at this as a pilot to roll out as and when necessary. The government could use this as a chance to increase the number of staff processing applications or to improve legal claims to asylum from abroad. Instead, they have chosen to take the problem and push it somewhere else. At least this way their voters cannot blame Labour in any way for this.
in before “we don’t know where the barge went” I guess.
> Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said they would save taxpayer money
What would save us some money Rishi is your Home Secretary doing her job and reversing the 18-fold increase in the asylum backlog since 2010.
That way asylum seekers can either be accepted and become economically active or quickly rejected and returned to the appropriate country.
Either way, I wouldn’t then be paying to incarcerate a bunch of people on a boat in the sea.
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Dickensian prison hulks.
This is what progress in Tory Britain looks like.
How about the Tories dock one of those barges in London, right outside Westminster and that could be all the MP’s second homes. They could add solar PV panels to the walls and roof and save us all the cost of subsidising their energy bills. Add in a couple of compost toilets and solar powered showers and it would be perfect. You could even get the Tories to round up their rich banking pals to sponsor a satirical Banksy piece of art on the external walls that are not panel clad to add some engagement to the public realm. Then all those second homes could be used to house migrants. Win. Win. Win.
Skipping over the ethics of this, we had something like 2,500 people arrive by small boats so far this year. This is just more red-meat that is not really going to touch the problem. Stop dicking around and get back to processing people’s claims quickly, get them out of the system asap rather than forcing them to linger in limbo for months or years at a time.
It’s not *that* bad. Still better than Butlins.
I was going to make a criticism but I just can’t be arsed now. It’s comically shit.
Looks better than most university dorms.
Hopefully they can get more to house all the illegals there.
I have family in the area and this is very unpopular with the locals. Apparently the local council didn’t get any say in the decision and it’s been forced on them by central government. Given Weymouth and Portland are tourist towns they are pretty unhappy about it and are concerned about what impact it will have on visitors to the area. From what I understand the men are effectively prisoners on the ship but will be allowed out on occasion.
Edit: I’ve just read that they can come and go from the barge freely. This is obviously going to cause some issues so I don’t blame the locals for not liking this at all.
A lot of very naive comments below. Most migrants are not genuine asylum seekers, they are economic migrants attracted by the welfare state and prospects of joining their friends and relatives. Migration watch estimates 87.4% are men, with a tiny proportion of women and children. Most are also very poorly educated, with few having any of the technical skills we need to maintain the NHS, industry, and academia. Look at any UK highstreet today and you see the corrosive influence of unplanned migration. And don’t get me wrong I am all for migration – I am a migrant!
I live in a small town with less than 200,000 inhabitants, and the demographics are gradually changing in the way we see in Luton, Telford etc. Examples include my Albanian barber who asks for cash payment and puts my 20 in his pocket (Albanians are notorious for money laundering), then there are the three kebab shops, and various Turkish restaurants. The Africans and Arabs are less visible and have been housed (for now) on the edges of town in areas that are slowly becoming no-go areas for whites.
The resentment on both sides is growing and yet nothing is done to correct a trend that is clearly damaging the economic and social prospects of the UK. Here is a fact that should have you all thinking. 62% of the Europeans who left the UK after Brexit had degrees. They were also mostly economically active and made a much larger contribution to those who came after from the M.E. and Africa. Even a stupid person should be able to grasp what happens when you replace an engineer with a rapper, curry cook, barber or groomer. I say that and then watch Question Time in despair when the socialists rant about how the Conservatives are messing up the country, the fact is both sides of the House have no idea how to deal with migration, Brexit, and demographic winter bought on by aging.
Prison hulks in 2023. What’ll be the next 18th century innovation revived.
So about 1% of a yearly crossing… and where do the remaining 99% go?
In a very Tory area too. That will help locals realise that the problem is closer than they think and will impact them too. Other coastal areas may wish to pay attention because they will look at this as a pilot to roll out as and when necessary. The government could use this as a chance to increase the number of staff processing applications or to improve legal claims to asylum from abroad. Instead, they have chosen to take the problem and push it somewhere else. At least this way their voters cannot blame Labour in any way for this.
in before “we don’t know where the barge went” I guess.
> Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said they would save taxpayer money
What would save us some money Rishi is your Home Secretary doing her job and reversing the 18-fold increase in the asylum backlog since 2010.
That way asylum seekers can either be accepted and become economically active or quickly rejected and returned to the appropriate country.
Either way, I wouldn’t then be paying to incarcerate a bunch of people on a boat in the sea.
Are we back to this again?!?!
HMP Weare was around last time we has this….
https://www.portlandhistory.co.uk/hm-prison-weare.html
Idk about you but I’d stay there for a night to see what it’s like
Why only males? Where will they house the women, children, elderly and disabled asylum seekers?
At least the Albanians ensure Lonsdale trainers will always have plenty buyer’s. Nice to see a good old British brand being looked after