Time for a little catch up (as this thread enters its eighteenth month!)
1. HMG apparently chartering 'floating hotels', previously used for N Sea oil workers, able to take 500 persons.
2. Last week alone over 1000 'migrants' arrived on small boats, enough to fill TWO of the hotels should they ever actually be used.
3. @NatalieElphicke
"It is very concerning that terror suspects have been able to enter our country in small boats and not be detained.
This raises serious issues of national security. Ministers must urgently review this situation".
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11958145/Almost-20-suspected-terrorists-crossed-Channel-small-boats-year.html
4. Approval given for first 8,500 homes in Ashford
Folkestone and Hythe 2021
Births 978
Deaths 1403
425 MORE deaths than births.
I wonder who we are building all this 'much needed (sic)' housing for?
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/hythe/news/8-500-homes-approved-for-huge-kent-garden-town-284902/
5. Government says something must be done.
Labour say something must be done.
Nothing gets done.
6. Meanwhile off Italy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65235579
Cue:-
How awful that people should risk their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean/Channel.
If only we could set up processing centers in North Africa/France nobody would risk these perilous crossings etc.
Repeat for crossing Sahara from Sub Saharan-Africa etc.
7. After their success in taking the Golly 20 into custody police are now searching my woodpile but refuse to say what they are looking for ......................
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