"In their letter to the Home Office, lawyers for the FBU cited media reports which said the Bibby Stockholm had only 222 single-occupancy rooms, but that additional beds had been placed in each in order to to increase the capacity to 506.
"Other reports said that, while the barge had three fire exits, one was not operational because it was at the end of a gangway that had been deemed too steep to be safely used.
“A whistleblower in the local authority is also quoted as telling the Times that fire checks in July had led to serious safety concerns and describing the barge as having the potential to become a “floating Grenfell”.”
Why does it seem that every time this government does something (whether or not I agree with the aim) there is an overall air of corner-cutting and incompetence?
their aim is always making money for themselves or their friends.
That’s usually the case but with this and the Rwanda proposal I think they’re doing it because their voters enjoy the optics and indignity of migrants being treated as sub human.
and making money is just a bonus?
Where hundreds of millions of pounds are concerned, there is more than just optics.
It is not incompetence. There is nothing this government (That is Sunak, Truss or Johnson) has done that has not facilitated a backhander somewhere. The Tories are on nothing more than a heist. They know they have been over-egging the thieving, and people are wise to them. Now it is only about as much as they can get before the gravy train ends.
Sunak’s family took a £1b contract weeks before giving out a 100 licenses to fossil fuel companies for researching new sources of oil. And now Sunak wants to grab a trade deal with India, where strangely his family has very close ties. Sunak is grabbing what ever he can. As soon as he looses at the next GE, he will grab his green card again, and spend this cash in the USA.