Floaty Migrant Housing?

[pequod]

This seems to be a sensible move by the HS, and similar facilities were used at Portland to house inmates, so I cannot see the issue which Drax has raised? Far better than adapting historic buildings at RAF Scampton, I would say...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65193446

Hopefully, more will be housed in similar vessels, plus redundant ferries/cruise ships? Migrants arriving by unorthodox methods, to be located around the British coast, with a fine outlook of the sea or industrial wastelands, must be cheaper than a 4* hotel in Kent?

Those who don't like the offered accommodation need only say, and a one-way ticket to Rwanda, or back home, will be even cheaper!

[BoRED S2upid]

Everyone is so offended on behalf of the migrants. The pictures I’ve seen the accommodation looks far nicer than some of the mouldy 1 bed flats / beds it’s that we house our own population in.

Has anyone asked the migrants? If it’s dry and safe then it’s better than where they came from or a tent in France.

[PositronicRay]

Clearly ludicrous, etch a sketch image of barge, preparing us for the real plan.

[Biker 1]

I've sailed round Portland Bill several times - what an amazing venue for our new guests!
Wonderful views & really nice in the summer.
The barge however is not exactly pleasing to the eye....

[pequod]

PositronicRay said:

Clearly ludicrous, etch a sketch image of barge, preparing us for the real plan.

Err, I have no need of further parrots, ta!

https://www.bibbymarine.com/bibby-stockholm/

[grumbledoak]

500. A couple of days worth.

[GetCarter]

60,000 people so far and 80,000 due this year... gonna' need a bigger boat (or +/-1200 of them).

It's a joke plan that will never solve the problem.

[Biker 1]

GetCarter said:

60,000 people so far and 80,000 due this year... gonna' need a bigger boat (or +/-1200 of them).

It's a joke plan that will never solve the problem.

Agreed.
Can someone remind me how many claims actually get processed per day?

[anonymous-user]

Dig the hole even deeper

[Cobracc]

What happened to Cruella's 'world beating' Rwanda plan...?

[pequod]

grumbledoak said:

500. A couple of days worth.

1/2 a days' worth when conditions allow, but ya gotta start somewhere!?

[BoRED S2upid]

GetCarter said:

60,000 people so far and 80,000 due this year... gonna' need a bigger boat (or +/-1200 of them).

It's a joke plan that will never solve the problem.

There is no answer to this. There aren’t enough hotels / barges/ vacant houses…

[TonyRPH]

I wonder if it might accidentally break from it's moorings and float back to Calais?

[S600BSB]

Biker 1 said:

GetCarter said:

60,000 people so far and 80,000 due this year... gonna' need a bigger boat (or +/-1200 of them).

It's a joke plan that will never solve the problem.

Agreed.
Can someone remind me how many claims actually get processed per day?

You'd think it was pretty obvious wouldn't you! First step to addressing the problem is to fix the broken asylum system by properly resourcing it so that claims are processed within say a max of 12 months. Broken Britain.

[James6112]

The Tories have made a right pigs ear of things during the last 13 years.
Even the local Tory MP & councillors are up in arms over the plan.
It’ll get blocked.
What a disaster of a government

[oyster]

pequod said:

This seems to be a sensible move by the HS, and similar facilities were used at Portland to house inmates, so I cannot see the issue which Drax has raised? Far better than adapting historic buildings at RAF Scampton, I would say...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65193446

Hopefully, more will be housed in similar vessels, plus redundant ferries/cruise ships? Migrants arriving by unorthodox methods, to be located around the British coast, with a fine outlook of the sea or industrial wastelands, must be cheaper than a 4* hotel in Kent?

Those who don't like the offered accommodation need only say, and a one-way ticket to Rwanda, or back home, will be even cheaper!

What is your obsession with Scampton?

[Murph7355]

S600BSB said:

Biker 1 said:

GetCarter said:

60,000 people so far and 80,000 due this year... gonna' need a bigger boat (or +/-1200 of them).

It's a joke plan that will never solve the problem.

Agreed.
Can someone remind me how many claims actually get processed per day?

You'd think it was pretty obvious wouldn't you! First step to addressing the problem is to fix the broken asylum system by properly resourcing it so that claims are processed within say a max of 12 months. Broken Britain.

Which still means you need accommodation for 60,000 people coming over by boat alone. So what's the acceptable solution for that number....?

[Murph7355]

James6112 said:

The Tories have made a right pigs ear of things during the last 13 years.
Even the local Tory MP & councillors are up in arms over the plan.
It’ll get blocked.
What a disaster of a government

Do you think Kier has a better alternative?

Don't get me wrong, the Tories are fking useless on this and numerous other issues. But the problem isn't really of their making (as in exponential rises in numbers using dinghies) and if, as these threads prove, no solution is "acceptable", then no govt will be able to solve this.

So we just have chimps hurling food at each other on fora as the outcome.

[BoRED S2upid]

Murph7355 said:

Which still means you need accommodation for 60,000 people coming over by boat alone. So what's the acceptable solution for that number....?

What do other countries do? Tents. What do we do £6mill hotel bill.

[pequod]

oyster said:

What is your obsession with Scampton?

I only have an 'obsession' with RAF Scampton, the same I have an 'obsession' about housing migrants at Brooklands, or Goodwood, if you prefer? Maybe the history doesn't matter to you, but I suspect, it matters to many hereabouts on PH, and no mistake!?