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This ship is one the most absurd things I‘ve ever seen. I can‘t imagine a single benefit in putting the refugees on a boat instead of dedicated facilities on land. It’s probably more expensive too. It‘s just an idiotic PR stunt comparable to Florida’s DeSantis bussing refugees to Martha‘s Vineyard.
This entire farce is the epitome of Tory mis-rule. I’m actually impressed at how pathetic it all is.
Another thing that appears to be suppressed about this farce is that the Asylum seekers that were on there and the ones who refused to board all arrived here via airplane and applied for asylum at the airport when they landed. So they never came "via an illegal route".
A fair few of the ones who refused used to work for the UK when they were in Afghanistan.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Asylum seekers are being removed from the Bibby Stockholm barge after legionella bacteria was found in the water supply.
Sky News reported it was being done as a “precautionary measure” and that no people had fallen sick or developed legionnaires’ disease, which is a serious type of pneumonia caused by the bacteria.
On Monday, after weeks of delays caused by safety concerns, local opposition and legal challenges, the first 15 asylum seekers boarded the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset.
Around 50 people were expected to move onboard the giant vessel, docked in Portland Port, but around 20 were granted a last-minute reprieve after a series of legal challenges.
More details soon …
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It's almost like putting people on prison hills is a bad idea.