#BibbyStockholm
🗞️The Home Office was left holding the Bibby – the barge was their third choice | Nicola David
While the government was negotiating its first barge for asylum seekers, it dithered and faffed for so long that two other barges slipped through its fingers
#BibbyStockholm #AsylymSeekers
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/the-home-office-was-left-holding-the-bibby-the-barge-was-their-third-choice/
Quasi-detention conditions on the Bibby Stockholm
Cabins on board the Bibby Stockholm, designed for single occupancy, now have bunk beds, and people must share with strangers. Each person’s living space is smaller than the average car park bay.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/11/09/quasi-detention-conditions-on-the-bibby-stockholm/
#AsylumSeekers #BibbyStockholm #Portland #Solidarity
This plan of Cruella’s to reduce the £8m a day cost of putting up asylum seekers in hotels is going so well, isn’t it?
Of course, if the government got off its arse and processed their claims, they could be freed into the community, get jobs and houses, pay taxes, and all that hotel detention, sorry, ‘accommodation’ wouldn’t be needed…
Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle has described the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge as a “recipe for disaster” after talking to some of the asylum seekers living on board.
He said he was concerned after hearing that the occupants of the barge were being kept in “prison-like” conditions with several of the promised facilities being stripped out or not being provided.
#BibbyStockholm #AsylumSeekers #UKPolitics
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/lloyd-russellmoyle-labour-portland-dorset-kemptown-b2438485.html
Asylum seeker hangs himself rather than move to the Bibby Stockholm
An air ambulance later transported him to Colchester Hospital, where he remains on life support.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/10/30/asylum-seeker-hangs-himself-rather-than-move-to-the-bibby-stockholm/
#AsylumSeekers #BibbyStockholm #HomeOffice #Repression
But this is what the British Government wants them to do of course 😞
#UKPOL #BibbyStockholm
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/29/man-tries-kill-himself-move-bibby-stockholm
‘This is a prison’: men tell of distressing conditions on Bibby Stockholm | Dorset | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/29/this-is-a-prison-men-tell-of-distressing-conditions-on-bibby-stockholm
#BibbyStockholm
#AsylumSeekerAccomodation
#AsylumSeekers
#Prison
#Portland
#Dorset
#HomeOffice
#PunishedForClaimingAsylum
#HumansForRightsNetwork
#MentalHealth
#LackOfSupport
''This is a #prison’: men tell of distressing conditions on #BibbyStockholm
#AsylumSeekers share fears about Dorset barge getting even more crowded, saying they already ‘despair and wish for death'
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/29/this-is-a-prison-men-tell-of-distressing-conditions-on-bibby-stockholm #ToryPoliciesInAction #Refugees #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #NastyParty #Asylum #HomeOffice
Man tries to kill himself after hearing of move to Bibby Stockholm https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/29/man-tries-kill-himself-move-bibby-stockholm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BibbyStockholm #Immigrationandasylum #Essex #UKnews #England
#LGBTQ+ #asylumseekers to be moved to #BibbyStockholm ‘#floating #prison’.
“People will have limited access to #support and they will also not be #free to move around the #port, so #conditions on the #barge are very similar to being in #prison.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Immigration #PoliticalAsylum #Tories #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Homophobia #Transphobia #TERFIsland
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/25/bibby-stockholm-barge-lgbtq-home-office/
Pink News: LGBTQ+ asylum seekers to be moved to Bibby Stockholm ‘floating prison’ https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/25/bibby-stockholm-barge-lgbtq-home-office/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #BibbyStockholm #asylumseekers #Politics #lgbtq #News #UK
#BBCNews - UK migrant hotel will start closing in the coming days, says minister Robert Jenrick
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67201589
He also said a push to increase room-sharing in hotels and accommodating asylum seekers in disused military sites had freed up space.
#migration #AsylumSeekers #BibbyStockholm #refugees
Just Stop Oil protesters block coach carrying men to Bibby Stockholm barge – video https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2023/oct/19/just-stop-oil-protesters-block-coach-carrying-men-to-bibby-stockholm-barge-video?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #JustStopOil #BibbyStockholm #Immigrationandasylum #HomeOffice
🚨 JUST STOP OIL blockiert den Bus, der #Refugees zum unsäglichen schwimmenden Knast #BibbyStockholm bringen soll.
🚧Um 12:45 Uhr blockierten 23 Unterstützer*innen von juststopoil.org die einzige Zufahrtsstraße zum Boot auf der Isle of Portland.
#BurnBorders not the planet!
#BibbyStockholm: #Migrants return to barge amid protest at port gates
Allegedly, the vessel is part of the government's policy to reduce the costs of placing migrants in hotels
Last I heard this had cost £300,000 to hire and had housed 36 men for 5 days - I make that £1,666 per person per night (and that is just the barge, not the cost of labour in managing it...)
The #toriesOut can organise a piss-up in an office during lockdown - but very little else it seems.....
“A letter, seen by the BBC, has been sent to asylum seekers confirming their re-embarkation in the coming days. It reiterated that all asylum accommodation continued to be offered on a ‘no-choice basis’.”
That’s Braverman for you.
And wow, banging 39 men up in a barge must be making a really big dent in that £8m per day cost of hotels…
First asylum seekers return to Bibby Stockholm barge https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/19/first-asylum-seekers-return-to-bibby-stockholm-barge?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BibbyStockholm #Immigrationandasylum #Dorset #UKnews
A good week to bury bad news for Britain's asylum seekers?
Suella Braverman's Home Office is taking advantage of the current situation in the Middle East to move back 39 asylum seekers onto the Bibby Stockholm today. They were moved off after legionella was discovered. Braverman plans to move further asylum seekers onto this effective prison ship tomorrow.
#UKPolitics #HomeOffice #BibbyStockholm #AsylumSeekers #SuellaBraverman
Protests planned as asylum-seekers return to ‘death trap’ Bibby Stockholm barge | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/protests-planned-asylum-seekers-return-death-trap-bibby-stockholm-barge
#BibbyStockholm
#AsylumSeekerAccomodation
#AsylumSeekers
#DeathTrap
#HomeOffice
#FreedomFromTorture
#Braverman
‘The Home Office has issued fresh guidance called Failure to travel to the Bibby Stockholm vessel, saying that support will be terminated for those who “fail to take up the offer of accommodation on the vessel”.’
That is not an offer; it is an instruction backed by a threat.
#Portland mayor mounts legal challenge against council over #BibbyStockholm
Urgent hearing comes days before #HomeOffice is due to return #asylum seekers to barge in Portland
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/13/dorset-mayor-in-fresh-legal-challenge-over-bibby-stockholm #ToryPoliciesInAction #refugees #ToryInhumanity
The Guardian view on Bibby Stockholm: behold, the great floating fiasco | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/12/the-guardian-view-on-bibby-stockholm-behold-the-great-floating-fiasco?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BibbyStockholm #Immigrationandasylum #Conservatives #Politics
Britain will have it's concentration camps, the State wants it so it will happen.
Most British people will be fine with it, I've lived here all my life among these people and know they are weak, cowardly and bigoted.
We'll watch billions starve, drown and burn from our two centuries of petrochemical industry and then pat ourselves on the back for not letting them in, even though it's our fault really.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-67064005?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Vanessa Redgrave gives £4,000 to Bibby Stockholm legal fight
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/29/vanessa-redgrave-gifts-4000-to-bibby-stockholm-legal-fight-asylum-seekers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#BibbyStockholm
#VanessaRedgrave
Vanessa Redgrave gifts £4,000 to Bibby Stockholm legal fight https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/29/vanessa-redgrave-gifts-4000-to-bibby-stockholm-legal-fight-asylum-seekers?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Immigrationandasylum #BibbyStockholm #UKnews #VanessaRedgrave #Law
What a relief. 😬🙄🤨🤬
https://mastodon.scot/@decembr14/111108724923927613
decembr14 - ‘In these most recent results, all the water samples tested for legionella were deemed “satisfactory”, although some of the bacteria were identified in two of the samples.’
“Satisfactory”. Oh, well that’s all right, then…
‘In these most recent results, all the water samples tested for legionella were deemed “satisfactory”, although some of the bacteria were identified in two of the samples.’
“Satisfactory”. Oh, well that’s all right, then…
It seems that the #BibbyStockholm has now tested 'satisfactory' for the (non)presence of #legionella & repairs have been undertaken to the plumbing...
We can now expect #SuellaBraverman to get the cattle-prod out (again) to force #migrants onto the barge.
The inhumanity of the #Tories continues
Bibby Stockholm gets ‘satisfactory’ test results for legionella https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/22/bibby-stockholm-gets-satisfactory-test-results-for-legionella?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BibbyStockholm #Immigrationandasylum #HomeOffice #Politics #UKnews
'Living in that barge is a death': Migrant who was on Bibby Stockholm barge begs not to be returned
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/migrant-letter-board-bibby-stockholm-barge-triggered-nightmares-2540776
#BibbyStockholm
Bibby Stockholm: Migrants 'allowed to drink water after legionella discovery' | ITV News
https://www.itv.com/news/2023-09-11/bibby-stockholm-migrants-threatened-with-homelessness-if-they-dont-return
#BibbyStockholm
#Legionella
“It’s like being bait in a trap. We feel as if we are being hunted by the Home Office, when all we want now is a system that treats us fairly, a swift interview, a stable future and a voice. Please be our voice.”
#AbolishTheHomeOffice #SackSuella #AsylumSeekersWelcome #BibbyStockholm
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/12/suella-braverman-bibby-stockholm-terrified-asylum-seekers-ministers
We were held on Suella Braverman’s Bibby Stockholm barge – and we’re terrified of going back there
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/12/suella-braverman-bibby-stockholm-terrified-asylum-seekers-ministers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#BibbyStockholm
“New testing of water samples on the Bibby Stockholm has confirmed the presence of a potentially deadly strain of legionella onboard, the Guardian has learned.”
Deadliest legionella strain found onboard Bibby Stockholm
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/08/legionella-found-onboard-the-bibby-stockholm-is-most-deadly-strain?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#BibbyStockholm
#Legionella
#BibbyStockholm: Freedom of information data from Dorset council shared with @guardian has confirmed that the most deadly strain – Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 – was found in a galley pot-wash hose outlet in tests conducted at 3.28pm on 15 August.'
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/08/legionella-found-onboard-the-bibby-stockholm-is-most-deadly-strain?CMP=share_btn_tw
Legionella found onboard the Bibby Stockholm is most deadly strain | Bibby Stockholm | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/08/legionella-found-onboard-the-bibby-stockholm-is-most-deadly-strain
#Legionella
#LegionairesDisease
#BibbyStockholm
#LegionellaPneumophilaSerogroup1
#WessexWater
#AsylumSeekers
Lawyers for the Fire Brigade Union have written to the Home Secretary, #Braverman, about the #bibbystockholm They have said she has a "callous disregard for the safety of its members"
Earlier today, the leader of the FBU, Matt Wrack, described the barge as being a "death trap"
Braverman’s plan to house UK asylum seekers on ‘deathtrap’ barge faces legal hurdle
Exclusive: Fire Brigades Union outlines ‘serious fire and safety concerns’ over Bibby Stockholm
Suella Braverman’s stalled plan to house asylum seekers on a giant barge is facing a major legal hurdle after firefighters launched a judicial review claiming the vessel is a “potential deathtrap”.
#Braverman #refugees #BibbyStockholm #PotentialDeathtrap #ToryFail #fascism
This is horrific, but remember, it's a feature, not a bug.
#Braverman and #Sunak intentionally want to be horrible to #asylum seekers. If some are driven to suicide, then that's probably exactly what they wanted to achieve. They are evil people.
@ohiorob Amoral people will push the boundaries of inhumanity until Moral people make their stand. Democracies, in particular, need to be leading the charge, & not demonstrating how to trample over Migrant Rights. #Texas #Abbott #Tories #RwandaPlan #BibbyStockholm #SmallBoats #MediterreanSea
Just come out and say why you're doing this Rishi, because you think we're all rabid xenophobes wanting concentration camps for The Other
#UKPOL #Tories #SmallBoats #BibbyStockholm
On #LeeAnderson, deputy chair of the @conservatives, reported as saying, “if #asylum seekers including Afghans & citizens of other war-torn countries object to being housed on the #BibbyStockholm they should fuck off back to France”. Shame on him. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/14/the-guardian-view-on-lives-lost-in-the-channel-tragedies-continue-to-the-accompaniment-of-tory-insults
#AsylumSeekers #ChannelCrossings #BibbyStockholm #Brexit #Tories
🚨**Government officials planning for migrant crisis to last for ‘years’!**🚨
Plans have been drawn up to tackle the Asylum crisis for at least another FIVE YEARS, with RAF bases & a prison set to house migrants in the UK.
Ministers said they had planning permission for the Bexhill, Wethersfield & Scapmton sites & aimed to reduce the £6m a day cost of housing 51k migrants in nearly 400 hotels.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/migrant-crisis-years-government-memo-b2392560.html
Bibby Stockholm evacuation shows 'startling incompetence'"
Just think of the good David Davis could do if he were not a Tory, and was not a Brexiteer. Such wasted talent. Tragic, it is.
#BibbyStockholm #HomeOffice #DavidDavis #Brexit #Conservatives
#BibbyStockholm evacuation shows 'startling incompetence'
Allegedly, part of govt plan to deter Channel crossings by migrants, & a cheaper alternative to hotels for asylum seekers awaiting the outcome of their claims
I doubt it is ANY cheaper than the sort of hotels migrants are put up in, nor put off migrants prepared to put up with danger & privation en route to the UK
#toriesOut are either really stupid, or this is just to shore up their #gammon vote
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-66485051
or both
“It later emerged that people spent four days on board the barge after the bacteria was discovered and before they were removed by the Home Office as a "precautionary measure" - prompting a blame game about what the government knew and when.”
Nye was right: Conservatives really are lower than vermin.
Fuck me! #BibbyStockholm: Refugees (for that is what they are, not economic migrants) should be moved back on the barge despite #Legionella in the water system, says Health Secretary Steve Barclay.
Shout it out loud, lovers: Tories are scum!
How can #Barclay say it was a "precautionary measure" to remove people from the #BibbyStockholm ?
There was a POSITIVE indication that #Legionnaires was in the water system.
This is not proceeding with caution. This is proceeding with a very real public health measure and strategy.
#Barclay says about the #BibbyStockholm that it was "an isolated incident that raised a concern."
No, it wasn' t an 'incident' it was a comprehensive test for water-borne bacteria, #Legionnaires specifically.
#Barclay on @SkyNews says Portland Council did inform the Home Office on the Monday about the #Legionnaires outbreak on the #BibbyStockholm and that, "it's a matter for them to respond to."
Wherewith he eschews responsibility.
One of my relatives died after contracting Legionnaires disease, so the fact that people were exposed in this way is no joke. If it turns out that the Home Office knew in advance or were negligent in any way then the repercussions should be severe. #BibbyStockholm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-66485051
Good morning. It's 9AM, Saturday, 12th August. The headlines: A special counsel is set to investigate Hunter Biden. In other news, concerns rise over football gambling. Ukraine's President Zelensky dismisses military officials, while climbers refute claims of ignoring a dying guide. Tragic wildfires claim 67 lives in #Hawaii and migrants are evacuated from Bibby Stockholm. Lastly, the Lionesses hold World Cup hopes. #HunterBiden #BibbyStockholm #BBC #News
But oh, it gets worse, as #Refugee charity, #Care4Calais is now reporting the government did NOT inform #Refugees about the presence of #Legionnaire's disease on the #BibbyStockholm prison barge, or immediately move them off once they knew it was there.
Worse, there is the possibility they were still moving refugees onto the barge even once the problem was known.
Every day, Britain slips closer to the dystopian end-times world from Children of Men…
(seriously, what kind of psychopath thought up the idea of putting them on a barge?)
#ChildrenOfMen #UK #Britain #Refugees #AsylumSeekers #BibbyStockholm
#CareForCalais explains that Legionnaires tests were done 25th July with results KNOWN 7th August - THE DAY BOARDING of the #BibbyStockholm began.
This is very bad
Earlier today, I posted about the tragic death of an #AsylumSeeker who was 'housed' in Manston Airport. He passed away because of a #diptheria outbreak at that unhygienic place
An hour ago, I learnt that ALL 38 asylum seekers are to be taken off the #BibbyStockholm because of a substantial #Legionnaires outbreak.
Humans are not supposed to live like this.
We are neither commodities nor packages.
I truly hate the bastards that do this.
They marched them on.... and then they marched them off.
beset by legal issues, nevertheless the #HomeOffice managed to get 39 #migrants onto the #BibbyStockholm ... only to find legionella bacteria on the water system, leading to an immediate evacuation of the barge.
In some ways this is a metaphor for so much #Tory policy; what looked like an easy fix has proved, on contact with reality, to not be so....
...And it ends with this total kicker.
"...Even before news of the #Legionella #Bacteria broke, other health concerns over the barge were emerging.
"Oxford-based GP Dr Dominik Metz said that he was concerned about risks to #AsylumSeekers, after one of his patients who was being treated for latent #Tuberculosis was told he was being moved to the barge."
The slowest of slowclaps now ensues. Also, note the use of 'migrants'.
"#Migrants are being temporarily removed from the #BibbyStockholm barge after traces of #Legionella #Bacteria were found in the on board water system.
"The #BBC understands that routine testing was done before migrants moved on to the vessel, moored in #Dorset.
"But test results showing traces of the bacteria came back only after migrants had moved to the barge..."
People / migrants / refugees being moved off barge over #Legionella bacteria fears
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-66476538
#BibbyStockholm
FFS! Can the #Conservatives not even carry out their spiteful, racist policies competently?
#BibbyStockholm: Refugees ‘moved off barge after #Legionella found’
Why not put asylum seekers up at the Savoy and buy them dinner at Langan’s? It’d be cheaper than the Bibby Stockholm | Nicola David
#BibbyStockholm
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/the-savoy-would-be-cheaper-than-bibby-stockholm/
John Bibby's first ship, The Eagle, back in 1806, was used to transport siaves from Cameroon to America.
https://wheredoyougetideas.wordpress.com/plunder-and-loot/shenanigans-in-shipping/
If the #Tories have their way we'll all be housed in #BibbyStockholm's around the country. Our houses rented out to foreign millionaires (left empty because it's Money Laundering)
Concentrated and controlled, only allowed off to work in some sweatshop or in the fields.
#Labour saying "it's tough but good for the economy, grow up complainers!"
20 refugees refused to go there from where they are currently held. This is more than the number of people who did arrive on that barge today.
Legal challenges are going in
Good luck.
Burn it down
In case you were under any illusions that the #BibbyStockholm #ConcentrationCamp is just a far right Tory thing, here's alleged left-wing commentator #NickCohen calling for the same thing, and on the same grounds, over 22 years ago.
(Yes, the same boozed-up sex pest narcissist who thought the Iraq War was a great idea. And yes, he uses a racist slur. Did I mention he just LURVES #KeirStarmer too?)
https://www.theguardian.com/Columnists/Column/0,5673,442725,00.html
#BIbbyStockholm is a #ConcentrationCamp
We Brits invented them, we are the Bad Guys.
#BBCNews - #Bibby Stockholm: First #asylum seekers to board #barge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66424923
#BibbyStockholm
Bibby Stockholm is a disaster waiting to happen - overcrowding, limited escape options, basic health and safety concerns, poor access for emergency vehicles - it's time to put an end to large-scale containment | Nicola David
#AsylumSeekers #BibbyStockholm
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/transfer-of-asylum-seekers-to-floating-coffin-bibby-stockholm-postponed/