>> Crumbs, you're seeing it everywhere. Surely having separate facilities for every person in detention would
>> cost rather a lot? Then Manatee would go off on one about the govt squandering
>> money - or maybe not, seeing as it's another stick to beat the govt with.
Just another post on somebody else's thread.
I'm not saying that every Asylum Seeker should have a single room with private facilities. On the whole, hostel type accommodation would be suitable.
There will however be cases where people are vulnerable - a significant cohort amongst refugees - need what, in the outside world, would be called reasonable adjustments. Even then it needn't mean the royal suite - just appropriate sharing.
The fact we're in this mess with hotels etc is down to a failure to process claims properly and quickly. That, along with what's described in the article, is deliberate. If the process is slow, unpleasant and draggy the theory is that people will stay in France. It's also performative for the backbenches, the wider Tory party and its allies in the media who lap this stuff up.
For all Sunak's now moaning that he inherited a (legal) immigration problem from Johnson these guys have had their hands on the levers since 2010.
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