Well it won’t be long before the Tories are fully recovered from their embarrassing Election defeat if Kier Starmer and the Labour Party have anything to do with it. They are already providing the Tories with a source of ammunition with which to fight Labour again by scrapping the use of the Bibby Stockholm refugee barge. This is a move which is likely to ask why illegal immigrants are to be housed in costly hotel accommodation again.
Meanwhile much of both council and privately rented accommodation in this country remains substandard and in many documented cases is in an appalling state which is unfit for habitation. Many people in this type of accommodation would welcome accommodation which is safe and dry where facilities included heated rooms, abilities to get nourishing food and where there is communal access to gyms and games rooms.
Many of this country’s citizens are living in conditions far worse than those experienced by the illegal immigrants on the Bibby Stockholm. Also consider that there is both a housing shortage in this country and there is a considerable homelessness problem in almost all, if not all, our major cities. So pardon me if I just cannot sympathise with the moans of the people,who have come to this country illegally, about the conditions of the more than adequate accommodation on the Bibby Stockholm. I do not support the Labour Party’s stance on closing down the Bibby Stockholm and moving these people back into hotels which are the more costly option is in my opinion a backward step which will cost the taxpayers considerably more and which gives the Tories ammunition to fire back at Labour on the issue of immigration.