Migrants to be housed on barges now!

Will they have to remove all the lifeboats?

Another successful ECHR breach claim, surely!

 

Is there anywhere this government HASN’T said it would rehouse asylum seekers?

 

They're dumping 1500 on the RAF base at Scampton. The locals are ecstatic - not.

 

In a purpose built, fit-for-purpose camp with self-contained health clinic, education facilities, gyms, regular access to fresh air and exercise and programs to integrate them with the local community?

 

"living it up on barges" don't you mean?

 

Their second homes?

 

Spare a thought for the refugees who land on Australia's shores. Quickly whisked off to an island 5 hours away by plane (Naura). Some detained for up to 10 years, effectively imprisoned. Some have sown their lips up and refuse to eat. Those who stay on the mainland (Darwin, for example) don't fare much better in being detained for years.

Australia shows itself as a first world, progressive nation, and yet does deals with a US private prisons operator for 'garrison and welfare' on the island. Many are suicidal, including children who have used self harm as a coping mechanism. A tragedy ignored. A barge, or hotel, or the goodwill of families who take them into their homes, doesn't seem so bad in comparison. I've no doubt our gov don't really care, but as a nation we have good people willing to show care and empathy. Australians take note.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023...ian-detention-island-sew-lips-shut-in-protest

 

Rosie and Jim will be furious! In all seriousness, this government have become a laughing stock

 

Dunkirk.

 

Send em to Ukraine. That'll teach em. They come over here.....

 

Largely empty royal palaces..

 

In Australia you can be imprisoned for non payment of fines. It is almost impossible not to get fined in Australia. You can and will be fined for jaywalking, rolling stops at stop signs, speeding in variable speed limit zones activated for the sole purpose of catching speeding vehicles that weren't speeding until the variable speed limit was activated. Poor neighbourhoods are targeted and you end up in gaol because you can't afford the fine for crossing the street.

 

Tis not so in my experience. Spent 12 months in Australia. Stopped halfway across the street jaywalking, no fine. Mate got pulled over for speeding, no fine. If we were refugees I'm in no doubt we would have been, though the chances of a refugee walking freely around Melbourne are incredibly slim. Not sure how being fined for jaywalking in Australia can be compared to years-long detention camps for refugees.

 

At least you didn't get picked up by the ear ring collector.

 

It wasn't.

 

So basically we're back to the days of using prison hulks - just like Great Expectations then.

I knew the Tories hankered after turning us back to Dickens England.

 

And even better, Cruella is announcing plans to fine beggars £1000. So, someone desperate enough to beg for a few pounds for a sandwich could now be hit with a large fine and either have to beg more to pay it off... or resort to other criminal means to get the money.

At the very worst case, the beggars would get a roof over their head and 3 meals a day at the local prison costing us even more...

 

The American penal system is an enormous industry. It feeds itself on criminalising trivial misdemeanours such as petty theft or holding a little bit of weed. They don’t want to reduce crime or de-ghettoise inner cities, it’s not in the interests of too many powerful money men.

There’s no money to be made in refugees, ‘cept the odd embezzlement, or the Tories would have found it.. & yet there’s a massive shortage of service industry workers, post brexit. It doesn’t take a genius to see a possible solution.?

 

There is money to be made in refugees Mr C, as highlighted by the article i linked to: 'Behrouz, who was held for six years on Manus before finding refuge in New Zealand, also said there was a lot of money to be made in detaining refugees and asylum seekers. He cited a 420 million Australian-dollar ($286m) contract agreed earlier this year between the Australian government and a US private prisons operator, Management and Training Corporation (MTC), to run “garrison and welfare” on Nauru.' It's still financial gain through exploitation of refugees, they just cite things such as a perceived 'securiy threat' to hold them for years. Basically imprisonment rebadged as national security.

 

More in reference to here & the public purse. I mentioned to the American penal model, as that seems to be the system Australia is adopting, which is worth billions to private profiteers.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Sunaks & Rees Moggs had investments in these industries.