The Bibby Stockholm is not the spin-doctored symbol of success the Government thinks it is 🖋️ Most people are not daft enough to think the small boats issue will be solved by a big barge, writes paulwaugh
– that effectively beggars can’t be choosers – may well reflect the view of a chunk of voters across the spectrum.– moored in Portland Port – is far from luxurious, it does provide three meals a day in basic living quarters.
The Scottish Government has tried to draw a distinction, claiming it used a moored boat to “welcome” refugees, whereas the UK Government is using one toYet one of the more curious aspects to this whole affair has been ministers’ attempts to portray the barge as some kind of prison ship to punish migrants, when in fact the facilities are far from jail-like.Bibby Stockholm
It’s neither a prison camp nor a holiday camp, but somehow the Government has left many thinking it’s one or the other. In reality, it’s just an emergency housing space but with the attempted symbolism of being “offshore” and away from the mainland. Sunak is personally on the hook for this idea too. As chancellor during the pandemic, he once floated the idea of buying unused cruise ships to house asylum seekers. His idea was not onlyby fellow ministers because of the huge costs, his own Treasury warned it wouldn’t offer value for money.
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