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    Starmer to move asylum hotel migrants to military barracks

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    2. mancunian101 on

      Seems like a sensible plan. There’s loads of closed down camps which are out of the way surrounded by big fences.

      It shouldn’t be hard to get them up to an acceptable standard

    3. Jaded_Strain_3753 on

      They could have saved themselves so much trouble if they started doing this a year ago

    5. KingThorongil on

      An MP suggested Britannia hotel as a solution, but the UN general secretary warned that that amount of suffering will amount to war crimes.

    6. xParesh on

      I can definitely get behind this plan. Clearly they’ll be full soon so the next step will be army tents, sleeping bags and porta potties.

      I just hope Starmer can get these plans backed by his own MPs

    8. iamezekiel1_14 on

      I’m looking forward to the situation where they get liberated by Palestine Action (given their history and military barracks) or something stupid like that. Or Reform voters who happen to live near the Barracks complaining. In all honesty – it’s completely unnecessary as well. The average Reform voter won’t read and understand this. Kier just needs to work on his vibes game instead and govern on feelings.

    9. Comfortable-Pace3132 on

      Would like to get some solid numbers on how much we’ve spent housing these people. We could have done something like this earlier for much cheaper, could even have used them for cheap labour if they’re so keen to be here. Starmer has to understand that he’ll lose support from one side or the other but he just can’t balance on the fence forever

    10. ShufflingToGlory on

      Won’t this just end up concentrating very large numbers of asylum seekers in a handful of areas?

    11. saxbophone on

      Does the implication that this is a bad thing say more about our contempt for migrants or for our soldiers?

    12. Happytallperson on

      *Deep sigh*

      We went through this with the Tory Government. It’s a terrible idea.

      1. Generally speaking going to be quite expensive to restore them to any usable standard.

      2. Generally quite expensive operationally as asylum applicants still need to access services, so you end up laying on really quite expensive transport to and from.

      3. Needlessly unpleasant to the point where human rights laws get engaged.

      The basic fact of the matter is the cheapest and most humane solution has always been to just process claims quickly and efficiently. Then you can deport those without valid claims and get on with integrating those with valid claims into society. Improving claims processing has already moved 20,000 people out of the Asylum seeker estate in the last year (50 thousand down to 30 thousand), far more than any “lets be cruel” policy has ever achieved.

    13. SoggyWotsits on

      This has already been done, and [look what happened](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-55863081). It seems a lot of people weren’t aware of this or don’t realise that the people sent to stay there won’t stand for it. I mean why would they when they’ve been sold the dream of a hotel or house?

      For the record I think it’s the right thing to do, but I don’t think it’ll work because it didn’t last time.