Britain plans to house asylum seekers in barge as Rishi Sunak cracks down on migrants crossing the ChannelThe "Bibby Stockholm" barge that will be situated in Portland Port in Dorset, in southern England.abc.net.au/news/britain-announces-plans-to-house-500-asylum-seekers-on-a-barge/102194860Britain has announced plans to house around 500 asylum seekers on a barge, as the government seeks cost-cutting measures and deterrents for arrivals crossing the Channel.
But charity group Refugee Council said the barge — the "Bibby Stockholm" — will be "completely inadequate" for "vulnerable people who have come to our country in search of safety having fled beatings and death threats in countries such as Afghanistan and Iran". "We're bringing forward alternative sites, like indeed the barge that we've announced today, that will save us money and indeed reduce pressure on hotels."
‘Britain plans to house asylum seekers in barge’. Next, they will want to send them to Australia as convicts.
What is wrong with humanity...
That’s what they on the first fleet prison ships in the Thames. History repeats itself
What is Albo going to do with the 300,000 he is letting in when there is not enough housing for the people already here. No ABC don’t report on that as they are your party even tho you are suppose to be bipartisan. Defund the ABC
Then will the ship the barge to that penal colony … Australia I believe it’s called
They won't be prisoners Britain intends to transport to NSW, will they?
That's where the convicts were kept until the barges were too full
The UK 🇬🇧 housed Convicts in Hulks on The Thames, Plymouth Harbour and elsewhere ! Then they sent them to the USA 🇺🇸 & Australia to Penal Colonies. Now the UK Neo-Colonial Penal Colony in Rwanda will get Convicts from Hulks ! Nothing changes !
No, no, no last time the Poms had floating prisons they transported the contents to Australia and massacred the indigenous population, raped the land etc.
And then pull anchor and let it float away
What could possibly go wrong!!! So no one researched 'prison hulk'
When do they start sending them to the colonies?
Then send then to Australia
Back to the 19th century when they housed prisoners on hulks?
That's one hell of a houseboat
Good, and when they’re all aboard quickly drift back to France and let them disembark thinking it’s somewhere else 🤣
oh dear, has Britain been here before? Surely there is some far off land that the refugees could be sent to. You know; one that is totally uninhabited by anybody who's a real human!
This is horrific!! Its not Noahs Ark!! Refugees are not animals. This Gov has lost the plot and do not deserve their seats!! 😳
21st century version of prison ships. Australia simply sent to Xmas Island, and them Manus Island. This was how Howard, and ScoMo and other Liberal PMs dehumanised vulnerable refugees.
They going to set sail for Botany Bay after that?
If they are coming out here use the Suez canal not the Cape of Good Hope ,South Africa . Get here sooner
send them to Australia again shall we prison barges 1700s
They used to call them hulks in the 18th century
back to the 18C brilliant
What could possibly go wrong 🤔
Party like it’s 1788
Maybe tow it to the other side of the channel once it’s loaded
I honestly thought this was an onion article. How depraved...
They should use old battleships and call them hulks. Follow me for more original ideas
That looks like something out of a movie
Out come the prison hulks 🙄
After 200 years a return to hulks
Kind of like the transportation convict ships that sent prisoners to Australia
No way
lionheartleojai That is really f*cked up
Thames Prison Ships Hulks revisited! Charles Dickens would be mortified. May I have more Sir…😥😎
In what universe does this end well. None
If economic 'refugees' don't like it send them home, they won't because they'll have roof over their heads & food etc given for free. Go to the root of the cause seeing them flee home countries. Lazy useless regurgitating press worldwide not willing to tell real story bbcnews
*sorry ole chap, they seem to have floated away........
Too good for them ...just send them home to the families they abandoned
It’s the old floating prisons of the 18th century
What then? Send them off in ships to Australia?. History repeats in many instances.
Good idea Australia should do same but also put the advocates with them
Why is it that ABC News broadcast always nominates the reporter but never give a byline to Twitter reports?
Love it, send them back
Good, there is no accommodation on land for them.
Hmmm - kinda how it all started before shipping criminals to Aus…
Does not resemble a prison hulk at all
I...wot?
And then send them to Australia?
Oh My God.Britain did this until there were no more ships, so they were then transported to Australia. Are we going to get this lot as well?
Australia 2.0
Water views ay. Sounds a bit too hoity-toity to me…
? Bound for Botany Bay
Off Sydney Harbour!?!?!
This takes us back to the convict days of ‘old’ Britain.
Jesus, really going to the 1700's for solutions. What could possibly be wrong with this?
Used to be called a 'rotting hulk' of misery?
Send them Australia 🤠 historyrepeats
Hope they don’t tow the barge down under
When does transportation to New South Wales begin?
Transportation next.
And then pull the bilge plugs. Problem solved.
premium waterfront accomodation ..... Many homeless people here in shitville (straya) would welcome such offer
History repeats....next thing they'll be sending them off to some far flung colony
Ah yes, Britain used to do Prison Hulks so well!
The modern prison hulk.
Asylum from what . Surely it’s time all this nonsense stopped . Asylum from what war thats is what asylum is all about . All they are housing now adays are economic migrants happy to hold their hands out and get fed for nothing . Meanwhile for those on the streets hard lines
Fishing out your window sounds pretty good. Might be a few tangled lines when the fish are on though. Couple of crab pots out overnight. Sweet feed in the morning.
Forget their neighbouring countries or the 100 safe countries they pass through, let's go to Britain to seek asylum
If Charles can afford a gold plated toilet & someone to wipe his arse yet human beings are being kept like chattel on the SS misery? How are we ok with that? French had right idea about ‘royalty’.
Isn't that how they created Australia?
Brings to mind ‘the hulks’ in the River Thames 18th century solution. True what it said about history repeating….,,👀
When the hulks fill where will they ship them? Australia is closed to boats apparently
Good
WOT ?
Next they will be transporting them to Botany Bay.
Wait... Wasn't prisoners in hulks on the Thames the precursor to prison colonies? Here we go again.
Did a shovel write this satire?
Absolutely inhumane. I can see Tony Abbott’s politics behind this decision.
Already waay over a sustainable population & food insecure. These are the people they’ll literally be fighting for food with come the 2030s and 40s. Those claiming they must let every country shopper in should sign away their own food rights come the climate crisis famines.
Okay but what do they do with the people who cross the channel next week?
The hulks come to mind. Cruel, unjust, unconscionable policy on repeat.
Well once they get there offshore processing started, problem will be solved. Britain is like Australia, having to deal with country shoppers. People should have to claim asylum at their first country of call.
Britain should institute a 'White Britain' policy and cut all immigration and asylum claims, and turn back all boats at the channel.
What a humane bunch.... Can I get a spot too...rents too expensive on the mainland?
Shades of the convict hulks of the 18th century. The Brits are reverting to the worst features of their history.
Looks like a prison hulk. Guess they’ll be shipped over to us soon.
“Asylum seekers”.
Can tow it out to sea and leave it there
It must be Christmas.
They’re going to need a bigger barge. 😂😂😂
And if you don't like it, don't go to the UK , ho to the middle east, China, Russia, wherever Point is , stop going to Western countries
Water views, no wonder all the illegal immigrants pass through the EU to get to the UK.
Named Titanic?
Can tow it onto sea and leave it there
Ah pre-colonial Australia days, isn’t this what they did with overcrowded prisons, whack all the convicts onto barges awaiting deportation 🤷♂️
Until they are processed Great idea… Better than Christmas Island or Manus.
Send them over to Martha's Vineyard they love them there and heaps of room.
Let them house 500 British born first and report back. Seems only fair
The Incredible Hulk
It is a wonder that they are not transferring them to Terra Australis.
Work will set you free vibe.
Are they bound for Botany Bay?
Then they can tow it to the colonies
What then ,ship them to the colonies,history repeats
Great idea, pity if it slipped its moorings one night
The US has been doing it to their own citizens for decades
Before sending them to a penal colony?
Is this a late April Fools'
Nauru 2.0?
Could they tow that to Port Arthur?
Deport.
What could possibly go wrong?
Bound for Botany Bay...
Bit of a change from the five-star hotels they've been occupying... Oh well, beggars can't be choosers. 😏
Just like the good old days of the eighteen hundreds with prison hulks littering the waterways.
History repeats itself. Sadly for the Brits there is no longer any spare continents to colonise.
Convicts...did that for years in hulk ships before transportation. As though on water is not in UK...
Hey, that’s a novel idea. Should solve the problem you reckon?
Back to the 18th century
Didn't the British government do something like this before once, a couple of centuries ago?
Like a rapey cruise
Lol if it sinks
I think the historically accurate term is a hulk.
Trying to outdo Australia’s cruelty