Muslim freeloaders posing as asylum seekers on Britain’s first luxury barge, the Bibby Stockholm, will be provided with free hiking, cycling, cricket and festival excursions as well as on-board sports, a gym and a 24-hour food service to keep them happy and entertained. For some reason, far-left bleeding hearts are calling the barge a “floating prison.”
UK Telegraph (h/t Marvin W) Asylum seekers on the 500-person capacity barge in Portland, Dorset, will be free to leave at any time on foot or through buses laid on every hour from 7am to 11pm to nearby Weymouth, with free taxis to bring them back if they miss the last one home.
The first 50 migrants are due to take up their places on the Bibby Stockholm barge next week. They will be housed there for up to nine months with security guards on duty 24/7, airport-style baggage screening, metal detector and ID swipe cards when they enter or leave via a gangway to a single main entrance.
They will live and sleep two, four or six to a room in bunk beds, all with an en-suite shower and toilet. The number of migrants will steadily increase to a maximum of 500 as part of the Government’s efforts to reduce the £6 million-a-day cost of housing 51,000 asylum seekers in hotels.
Officials said they will have access to “more services and activities than in hotels” to discourage lone trips into Portland, help them integrate with the local community and reduce the demands on local services.
Leanne Palk, the assistant director of asylum accommodation at the Home Office, said: “I wouldn’t say that it was a luxury facility to start with, but it meets what we require in terms of adequacy. It is not a floating prison. It is open and airy.
“People are not restricted to just being on the vessel. They can access the compound [on the quayside]. We have a significant number of activities organised by the local council, and volunteer organisations for people to enjoy. What we want here is for people to feel like they are part of a wider community and not restricted to being here.”
Voluntary organisations and Dorset council, which is being paid £3,500 per migrant as well as a £380,000 grant, will provide excursions and off-site activities including cricket, cycling, hiking and guided walks, trips to farms and sports events and the chance to cultivate vegetables and flowers on local allotments.
As well as a fully-equipped gym with running, cycling, rowing machines and weights, they will have two spacious TV rooms, five lounges, IT room with desk top computers and free wifi, classroom for twice a week English classes and a conference room which they can book for meetings, activities or hobbies.
Two courtyards on board have been converted, one into a sports area with football, basketball, volleyball and netball and the other into a space with picnic tables and chairs.
There will also be a “town hall” meeting for those housed on the barge to identify other activities or raise complaints, as well as a multi-faith room and private rooms for quiet reflection. People will be able to lock their own rooms, but will be encouraged to join in the activities to create an on-board community.
The barge is berthed adjacent to a compound, all of which is surrounded by 15ft-high metal fencing. Although migrants will be encouraged to use the hourly buses to leave the compound and pass through the secure port to its exit, they will be free to ask to be escorted to the gate to visit Portland.
They will be free to leave the port for up to seven consecutive days and nights at a time or for 14 calendar days and nights within any six-month period – the same conditions that apply in hotels. There will be no curfew, but there will be a roll call and those who have failed to swipe in will be phoned to check on their welfare.
Those on the barge will have the same access to the NHS as any other Briton through an on-board nurse practitioner and medical clinic, open from 9am to 5pm, with a GP on call and 999 services provided in the event of an emergency. The Home Office is paying the NHS £1,900 per bed space to provide the service.
The barge is one of three sites at which ministers aim to have around 3,000 asylum seekers accommodated by the autumn under Rishi Sunak’s bid to stop the small boats crossing the Channel. The other two are former RAF bases Wethersfield in Essex and Scampton in Lincolnshire.
More than 290 Channel migrants were intercepted on Thursday, taking the number crossing to more than 1,100 in three days. A total of 14,412 people have reached the UK this year, just six per cent lower than last year’s record of 45,755 at the same point.
Nigel Farage says the illegal alien migrant barge is a recipe for disaster.
Portland residents voice their concerns about 500 young Muslim men taking up residence on the Bibby Stockholm barge, and the danger that these men running around the neighborhood will pose, especially to girls and women
ME Infidel says
In the 3rd video, the woman makes the statement @ the 4:15 mark that, “It’s not about race or religion. Islam is a very peaceful religion.” Therein lies the problem. If you can’t do your homework on Islam and Sharia, then shut your mouth.
BareNakedIslam says
Most people are ignorant like her.
BLR says
tug boat would come in handy to have when them barge’s are at capacity english channel is deep I hear
Bleepingbobby says
If you really want wages to rise. Tell every human that works with each every immigrant in, there is a drop in wage, quality, peace…If you kill them at border there is less job market competition even on low paying jobs and people get proffessionalized & payed better…Also votes will never go wrong & incetivizes individual economy, booming house market, constant births of healthy smart people, and prosperous society. It also pushes firms with problems to lawmakers to close…It also helps keeep a grip on corrupt officials and make more satiafactory laws. That is achievable with only the most appropriate people…
Michael Copeland says
Rishi Sunak is destroying Britain.
BareNakedIslam says
A lot of people there are saying the same thing. With conservatives like him who needs liberals?
JS John says
This is not going to stop the boats from coming. I know they also know this. All of this is just Islam conquering the UK. Let’s see if the Brits kick their butts and send them all back, including the ones already there, before they start murdering the “Infidels” in the street.
Smooth Lee says
To “help them integrate with the local community”.
Shouldn’t that be; To ” force the local community to integrate with the Islamists”?
BareNakedIslam says
Yes!
Reader says
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The Tasmanian Devil says
Seriously.
Really.
ENGLAND DESERVES ITS MUSLIMS! And everything they’re getting and will continue to get as a result of their bleeding heart moronic liberal immigration policies.
OH, WAIT! We’re running a close second.
Ghulam says
Who will wash the dirty linen everyday?
Who will do the dishes?
Who will take out the food wrapper trash?
Bugsy278 says
Shouldn’t the people that sleep on the linens wash then, that dirty the dishes clean them, that make the trash take it out? That shouldn’t be too much to ask for getting free room and board, plus all the extras being provided. But, of course, the “migrants” won’t like that cause it’s actual work, which they seem to be allergic to.
Reader says
They get more services from the British government than do the citizens.
Do the homeless get housing from the government?
Do socially isolated seniors who spent a lifetime paying taxes, get free taxis and free tickets to cricket games?
bonita says
The UK and other “welcoming” countries can shut the hell up, bitching and moaning as they open the flood gates. I quit feeling sorry for them.
Reader says
This will only stop when citizens go back to the old way of voting against tyrants.
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