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Giant 3-story barge arrives in UK to house 500 asylum seekers
NY Post ^ | May 9, 2023 | Lee Brown

Posted on 05/09/2023 2:48:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin

A giant three-story houseboat arrived in the UK Tuesday ready to house at least 500 asylum seekers to help ease a daily $7.5 million hotel bill.

The Bibby Stockholm arrived by tow in Falmouth, where it will be refit before moving again to be berthed off the coast of Dorset.

The UK government announced last month that it had leased the barge for 18 months to house 500 single adult males who are free to come and go around the local area, a tourist hotspot.

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To: jroehl

Yes - I’m thinking that is gonna burn down to the ground...
oops I mean the ocean.


21 posted on 05/09/2023 5:12:03 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Prison ships have a long history in the UK. I think they may still have some, but more like the pictured one here.


22 posted on 05/09/2023 5:13:51 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: BenLurkin

That thing will be burned to the waterline in 2 weeks.


23 posted on 05/09/2023 5:35:29 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: caww

Lock them in and leave them long enough and it will look like it’s 1779.


24 posted on 05/09/2023 6:28:49 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

200 rooms for 500 illegals...though I think the uk only calls them refugees now.
I can’t imagine putting that many people from various 3rd world countries togther like that in close quarters. They fought each other in the camps before.


25 posted on 05/09/2023 8:43:30 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: wetgundog

They’re all males from 3rd world countries so many of them are sure to be mental cases.


26 posted on 05/09/2023 8:49:29 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: BenLurkin

Reminds me of the prisons ships the Brits used during The Revolutionary War to house captured American patriots.


27 posted on 05/09/2023 11:44:49 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Brian Griffin

“It looks like the Mojave Desert.”

To some of these people, this is like the best suit at the Aamengiri.

wy69


28 posted on 05/10/2023 12:25:08 PM PDT by whitney69
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