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The home office has resumed the process of moving asylum seekers onto the Bibby Stockholm
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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"According to a report in iNews the barge has cost the Home Office almost £300,000 a week while it has been empty."
How much of that is running/mooring costs? If we're "renting" this surely it would be cheaper, even in the medium term, to build new facilities even on land.
Plenty of empty office buildings that could be converted.
That's a feature not a bug. That money is going straight into the pockets of Tory cronies.