"In their letter to the Home Office, lawyers for the FBU cited media reports which said the Bibby Stockholm had only 222 single-occupancy rooms, but that additional beds had been placed in each in order to to increase the capacity to 506.
"Other reports said that, while the barge had three fire exits, one was not operational because it was at the end of a gangway that had been deemed too steep to be safely used.
“A whistleblower in the local authority is also quoted as telling the Times that fire checks in July had led to serious safety concerns and describing the barge as having the potential to become a “floating Grenfell”.”
It is being overcrowded and deadly illnesses are knowingly harboured in its systems. It’s a pisstake. Someone is getting paid big money to ‘house’ a truly insignificant number of migrants. Thousands arrive and the media is having us argue over accommodation for a handful. As always, this government is happy to have us focus on a problem of their own creation so we don’t clock their far larger fuckery and corruption.