'The barge to house migrants represents failure. The entire policy is sinking'

09 May 2023 , 20:59

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Bibby Stockholm sailing into Dorset (Image: Greg Martin)

The barge to house 500 asylum seekers which has arrived off Cornwall on the British coast is a floating failure.

It symbolises the complete failure of the UK Conservative Government to halt small boat crossings across the English Channel despite Rishi Sunak grandly announcing that is one of his five priorities.

And it represents the failure to sign return agreements for the swift repatriation of those who are deemed economic migrants rather than asylum seekers or refugees and therefore not entitled to stay under a UN convention.

Add the furious opposition of Dorset Tories who do not want the barge moored at Portland Port near Weymouth to start accepting people next month and the entire policy is sinking.

Instead of a workable, principled and humane refugee and immigration policy, the unwanted barge is another desperate initiative from a collapsing Government.

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