UK to house hundreds more migrants on barges, Sunak says

The UK needs to take a leaf from Australia's book; house these illegal economic migrants on an island far away from the island of Great Britain.

The UK needs to take a leaf from Australia's book; house these illegal economic migrants on an island far away from the island of Great Britain.

The Australian treatment of refugees has nothing to recommend. Those island prisons border on a crime against humanity.

1/ Housing criminals " on barges led to the use of Australia as a penal colony in the post "invasion//discovery " years. This sounds familiar.

2/ Modern day treatment of refugees by Australia very shabby. It's a false premise to call these people "illegals" as its not illegal to seek asylum under international laws and treaties Australia has signed and is bound by.

3/This issue always was and continues to be "red meat for the masses " and voters in both UK and Australia.

Maybe if we stopped funding wars and instability in other nations the flow might be reduced. I doubt many "free people would seek to live in the land of blighty {UK.

Many if not most are not refugees in the sense that they are fleeing danger. The majority are 20-40 year old men looking for a better life financially. I fully understand why they do this and would probably do the same in their situation. However, the UK population does not want them, so if housing them in less than wonderful conditions persuades others not to come then why not? Better than sinking the boats or towing them back to sea and leaving them.

Maybe if we stopped funding wars and instability in other nations the flow might be reduced. I doubt many "free people would seek to live in the land of blighty {UK.

You going to fix Sudan to stop the migration from there, too? Going to take a lot of intervention to make the world a nice place.

house these illegal economic migrants on an island far away from the island of Great Britain.

We already did that. It's called Australia.

These numbers are dwarfed by the 89,000 Ukrainians and 76,000 Hong Kongers that the UK should be boasting about helping enter the country. By politicising the relatively small number of illegal immigrants the Tories have made a rod for their own backs. They are actually losing a political war their own party members started. That's how divided and incompetent they are.

These unfortunate migrants will be held on hulks for months as they don't have the staff to process them, and they are banned from working. Meanwhile crops rot in the fields as Brexit migrant labour blocks starve the agricultural industry of capable workers and the NHS falls apart. Brexit has broken Britain.

Sunak is doing these photo ops to try to scrape votes from the loony wing of the Tory party, with little success. Meanwhile, everyone else gets angrier at their country falling to bits and prepares to vote his hopeless, incompetent, corrupt and deceitful party out of government. Not because Labour will be any better, but because it will feel so good to bury the Tories at the next election. It's only when you have a government this incompetent, that you realise the importance of 'hate', typically condemned as a bad thing. Hating the Tories keeps us going as the country collapses. It's all we have left.

Many if not most are not refugees in the sense that they are fleeing danger. The majority are 20-40 year old men looking for a better life financially. 

They are coming from places where the only paying jobs are with warlords, IS and its affiliates and private armies. There are no productive jobs in the places most of these people are fleeing. I would also argue that fleeing starvation qualifies one as a refugee.

However, the UK population does not want them, so if housing them in less than wonderful conditions persuades others not to come then why not? 

Bigotry as an excuse for inhumanity. But hey the Brits and Spanish wrote the book on that subject.