I caught the back end of a news report where a charity which gives the homeless tents said that they had run out and couldn't get any more, the report showed rows of tents along a street, I think it was Bristol but cant be sure. I wonder if those people would turn their noses up at a cabin on a barge, but can you imagine the outcry if those crossing the channel in rubber dinghys were given a tent and a spot on a street.Zambo wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:17 amI don't know what some people expect the UK to do with them, perhaps the bleeding hearts would like to take a couple in. Checking out the current Salvation Army tv ad, is a timely reminder about those born in this country struggling to get through each day, no one seems to be thinking about them.
I just wonder what, exactly, those crossing the channel expect, or, to be more accurate, what they have been told they can expect.
A couple of years ago we had a load of young men burning down the military barracks they were housed in at a protest at the conditions, an attempt, apparently, to force the authorities to rehouse them in more suitable places. again, I wonder if those sleeping in a tent on a street in Bristol (or wherever it was) would turn their noses up at a bunk in an ex army camp, which, apparently, was good enough for squaddies but not for those crossing the channel in boats.
I did post about the experiences of refugees from Europe after the war, housed in nissen huts in an ex military camps, communal dining hall where their meals were doled out until the huts were fitted with a coal fired range with a water tank which heated the water when the range was stoked up, bath house 3 days a week, wash house once a week.
I was pooh poohed when I asked that what was wrong with using ex military camps for asylum seekers and was told that 'times have changed', well, times may have changed but desperate people in genuine need will take whatever is offered in the way of shelter without being too picky.
IMO only, of course.