The Barge.

[Workingman]

The first "guests" have arrived and the bleeding heats brigades are already out in force. "It's overcrowded"; "It's sub-standard"; "It's a prison".

Is it? Is it really?

This is what the illegals are leaving behind....




And this is what the poor dears are having to put up with...









all free of charge.

There are working tax payers living in worse accommodation in the UK. They are in damp and mouldy lets / public housing and have bills to pay - energy, food, transport costs, council tax.

It is, therefore, no surprise that there is friction between the general public, locals and the incomers.

[saundra]

Don't forget free bus into town plus late night taxi
If they miss the bus
It truly makes my blood boil

[Suff]

Oh come on you can't let reality intrude here. They mostly came illegally to profit from our country. We MUST let them do it or we're a horrible nasty creature.

[Workingman]

Can't the government do anything right?

39 migrents were moved on to the barge... now they have been moved off again!

Why?

Traces of Legionella bacteria have been found in the water. The cause of Legionnaires disease.

Tests were done before people embarked but the results were not known until after they had boarded.

Shouldn't the results have been known prior to embarkation or were the migrants sent on to meet some government deadline?

[medsec222]

I despair of this Government getting anything right Frank.

[Suff]

The government? Or the civil servants given the job of executing on the job?

After all this government doesn't actually do any of this work. They tell someone to do it and that someone contracts someone else to get it done.

Tests and results? The "government" will have held a "go no go" meeting. Whoever it is that has the responsibility to deliver this will have said "all boxes ticked, GO". Only to find out that this particular box was not ticked.

What better way to bring the government down, if you don't agree with what they are doing, than to simply do a seriously crap job. Especially if the civil servants in question are almost impossible to fire.

Granted whatever contractor should have had these results is crap too. But if there is malicious compliance at any level, then the government won't be able to do much about it.

[medsec222]

Why aren't people who fail to do their jobs properly made accountable. These are highly paid individuals compared to most of us, yet they seem to get away with mistake after mistake. In the real world if someone on the lower end of the salary range made a mistake they would just be 'let go' without a second thought. The people who bear the consequences of imcompetance in government and their civil servants are the general public, the taxpayer, when we see our money being wasted on hair-brained schemes instead of civil servants knuckling down and dealing with the backlog of refugee and asylum claims. We are now seeing the scale of the PPI scandal when millions of pounds has been wasted on useless PPI equipment and lucrative contracts given to government cronies - but I suspect it will be a drop in the ocean when compared to the money being spent on attempting to stop the boats.

[Suff]

I agree totally Meds. But getting rid of civil servants is never easy.

[Workingman]

The tests were done by a private company sub-contracted to the UKHSA - a government department. The contractor found the problem, it was the government that failed to act.

The migrants were put on board after the Health Secretary, Robert Jenrick, went on TV and "guaranteed" that it was safe, but that was before the test results were known. That's government incompetense.

It had sod all to do with civil servants... who would have been following orders, anyway.

I am against the barge only in that I would put the illegals in basic marquees in secure camps and not allowed into the community.

[TheOstrich]

I despair of this Government getting anything right.

You couldn't make it up, could you?

I think we've got to the stage now that, having had over 100,000 migrants cross the Channel since 2018, we might as well just give up and throw the borders completely open