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And why not?

Many of them are illegal or chancers and should not be given privileges while they are being processed.

Set up the marquees in secure areas but with good food, medical, legal and translator provision and only once processed, and only then, should they be allowed to remaIn and be let into the community.

I am not for one moment saying that we should treat them badly. but neither should we give them a life of luxury in hotels. Anything we provide them with is a hundred times better than what hey have been used to. We need to get tough.

If they were in a refugee camp in any of the adjacent countries, they would be in tents, regardless of the weather.

So it is an accepted accommodation for those who claim to be refugees.

End of story.

British troops in combat or on peace keeping duties live in tents for months/years on end.

Just saying...

What is wrong with a tent if it is warm inside with toilet facilities and food provided.
Have sen it reported they are given mobile phones and other items which I have to buy from my pension.
The immigrants who will be on the ship will have better facilities than when I did my National Service.

In the 1970s, when I volunteered to protect us all I was billeted in 18, 12 or 10 men rooms. Ablutions, such as toilets showers / bathing and laundry were shared between all of us - 48 on one floor in a 'H' block.

If all that was good enough for us squaddies then it is more than good enough for the migrants. The barge in Portland looks like luxury compared to what we had.

Sorry if that upsets you snowflakes.

I have been thinking about this for quite some time now. Everything the Government tries to do seems to be against the migrants' human rights. There were complaints about the hotels at one time, two people to a room for example, the army barracks are inhumane, the barges are inhumane, Rwanda is inhumane, and the tents are inhumane. Yet we are told that these refugees are fleeting across various countries to escape persecutation and danger. No mention is made as to the conditions they have to endure on the way here and in particular, what the conditions are like in France where many of the fleeing economic migrants are coming from. The focus is always on the UK, its shortcomings, and the fact that we are not doing enough to help. I don't get the open door policy that many on the left are keen to support. Do they want migrants to keep on coming in ever increasing numbers, with more and more taxpayers' money being diverted to their support. At what stage will there be less and less money for the NHS, housing, police, and education, etc., bearing in mind we have a duty to house migrants when they arrive. The pot is not limitless.

Serco or whatever it’s called applied to use the now disused Staffordshire University halls of residence in Stafford (near the RAF base, Frank) for housing around 500 asylum seekers and the council turned down the application.
They’ve now appealed, the council’s decision has been overturned and permission has been granted.

This accommodation is relatively modern (probably less than 30 years old) with good facilities so whoever is housed there will be fine.
Just down the road is Stafford Hospital, or County as it’s now called. It has a part time A&E, most wards close for the weekend, paediatrics has gone, maternity mostly has. Year on year the care it offers reduces. . Stafford itself has a large and growing homeless problem but they’re not even given a tent let alone a warm room with a bathroom and shared kitchen at the old university.

Also they are given free bus passes .

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Jo, it was Stafford Poly when I was there - good concerts, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues.

There is nothing else to do there so it's a yomp down Weston Road into Stafford.

500 men, yes, they are mostly men, in a small town like Stafford is a recipe for trouble. We all know it but many are too afraid to admit it, so we go along with it. If we don't we are branded as right-wing racists, and I am certainly not.

There are supposed to be immigrants going to be at former bomber base raf scampton and being put up in huts,on,the runway
But because work is behind they are resorting to tents
A complete and utter farce the camp a full of asbestos and in,disrepair it was the last home of the red arrows