Bibby Stockholm

[BoldonLad]

That boat looks exactly like what it is: a floating prison. The idea that Britain is some kind of welfare utopia is laughable, but it is a dream which has been successfully manufactured.

Are prisoners allowed to leave and arrive freely from Prison then?

 

[AndyRM]

Are prisoners allowed to leave and arrive freely from Prison then?

Cat D? Yep. Well, there are restrictions, but pretty much.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

If they pitched up on a boat with no papers they did.

This 👇 really should be a sticky at the top of every thread on asylum. Others have pointed this out repeatedly in the past, as have I.

The UK’s High Court has ruled that it is legitimate for someone seeking asylum to do so in the UK after passing through other ‘safe’ countries, and the UK Court of Appeal has ruled that those who cross the Channel to claim asylum here are not breaking the law by arriving in the UK this way.

 

[AndyRM]

Been doing some more reading about the floating prison:

https://theconversation.com/perform...re-of-the-uk-governments-migrant-barge-210300

And, unsurprisingly, more work is needed to make the place habitable so the first lucky asylum seekers have had their stay delayed.

 

[Pale Rider]

so the first lucky asylum seekers

Given that, according to some on here, these are all desperate men running in fear of their lives, they will regard themselves as lucky to be given a stay, all found, on the hotel ship.

 

[AndyRM]

I wonder if the inhabitants get a little chocolate on their pillow on arrival, and a copy of The Sun outside their door every morning to peruse at their leisure?

 

[Pale Rider]

I wonder if the inhabitants get a little chocolate on their pillow on arrival, and a copy of The Sun outside their door every morning to peruse at their leisure?

I do hope so, although given they have time on their hands, a copy of Britain's other great newspaper, the Daily Mail, might be more useful because there's so much in it.

 

[AndyRM]

I suppose either would work well as a further tool to convince them they aren't welcome and should jump into La Manche and strike out for Calais...

 

[Pale Rider]

I suppose either would work well as a further tool to convince them they aren't welcome and should jump into La Manche and strike out for Calais...

They would merely be better informed for when they moved into the wider community.

The idea of reverse boat people is an interesting one.

I understand there are hundreds of boats stored at Dover ready to make the return journey.

 

[matticus]

I wonder if the inhabitants get a little chocolate on their pillow on arrival, and a copy of The Sun outside their door every morning to peruse at their leisure?

What is the local free paper? Any good?

 

[AndyRM]

What is the local free paper? Any good?

The Portland Argus and Bugle? Probably full of adverts and letters from "Outraged of Front Street: This isn't what I voted for".

 

[Pale Rider]

The Portland Argus and Bugle? Probably full of adverts and letters from "Outraged of Front Street: This isn't what I voted for".

Sounds like a right riveting read, but these are men in fear of their lives, public money must not be spared so give 'em the Mail and the Bugle.

 

[matticus]

...
public money must not be spared so give 'em the Mail and the Bugle.

You're all heart!

 

[AndyRM]

What if they don't know how to play?

 

[Badger_Boom]

I wonder if the inhabitants get a little chocolate on their pillow on arrival, and a copy of The Sun outside their door every morning to peruse at their leisure?

I doubt it given it was decided that cartoon murals should be removed from a centre for newly arrived children in case it seemed to 'welcoming'.