Inside the Bibby Stockholm - the UK government’s ‘asylum seeker barge’ 

Gives me that warm feeling that my taxes pay for this whilst old ladies are dying because they can't get hospital beds.

Pity our old age pensioners dont get the same money spent on them ,sod the people that paid in ,look after everyone else .shame on the torys

Thousands of our own people starving or having to use foods banks, are they given the opportunity for 3 cooked meals a day? This government stinks.

It’s a absolute joke we even doing this!

What I don't get is why we don't have accomodation like this for our own homeless people. I've never been abroad but had to live in a tent for weeks. Where was a barge for me?

How long before the visitors trash it?

That's 100 times better and more luxurious than the places I had to stay during college time.

By providing luxury hotels, barges, uk is inviting more and more asylum seekers. There are advisers advising them how to claim benefits etc.

Just send them back

Can fill it in 2 days of illegals....what about the other 363 days worth of illegals? Pointless Govt BS!

It’s a pity we can’t House our own homeless in these barges instead of the illegals.

I pay £900 a month rent for a studio flat in Manchester, one room with a bed in it, I pay for my wifi, I pay for my gym membership. Must be nice

GIVE IT 2 WEEKS and they will trash it

Its a absolute and utter joke that this hugely expensive barge can only house enough migrants that comes over in just one day! Seriously I cannot even get a doctors appointment after working all my life and paying my tax's im entitled to nothing when these young men come over illegaly and get money and free everything. We are sick and angry of this going on year a fter year, enough is enough, im tired of this pathetic government

You speak of those conditions on board as if they’re inhumane. In Lisbon, Portugal, immigrants from Industan pay 10€/night to sleep on top of a mattress thrown on the floor of a room with 8 or 12 people. The problem is easy to solve: if you don’t have room for 20 in your house, expel them.

it will get set on fire they wont be happy , they want 5* hotels

Send all the young fighting age men back to help fight for freedom in their own countries instead of letting them loose on our young daughters who are already afraid to go out over the door after 6pm

I work for Deliveroo, my job has been taken over by balaclava-wearing illegal immigrants on rented accounts. They earn more money than the people they serve yet they steal at every given opportunity and their attitude has has led to hostility from restaurant staff and people in the street. I am in the crosshairs of much misdirected aggression, and i am having to move city to find work. It's not fair. They're, for the most part, not from war-torn countries. My fear is the collapse of Deliveroo due to recession, then you will have tens of thousands of ruthless men in balaclavas riding untraceable, uncatchable ebikes... What could possibly go wrong...

I'm just here to see the "wot about ar veterans" comments from the people who give f*** all to any charities.

Instead of spending billions of our money on barges and hotels maybe they could just process these asylum seekers claims and then deport the bogus ones and let the rest start filling vacancies and paying taxes? Oh, but I forgot, that wouldn’t make barge hire companies or rich hotel owners any money. And really when it come to something as fundamental as who is and isn’t allowed to live in the uk rich people making vast profits at the expensive of the tax payer is the most important thing, apparently

Think of the logistics involved for this . Rotating staff , medical facilities , catering , security onboard , H & S audits for personnel and inhabitants,vessel safety certificate’s, fire extinguisher’s test dates , fire route paperwork and risk assessments, escape boats , fuel consumption and distribution , electricians on standby etc Imagine what they did to the barracks but within a much more densely confined space …on a ship. Disaster waiting to happen.

When I heard that if illegal immigrants miss the last bus “home”, there are free taxis available, it stunned me! How can a collection of British men and women called our government, make such insane and ultimately dangerous decisions….???

It’s long before time Europe collectively got some kind of grip on this migrant crisis. The vast majority of people in my orbit have no issue with controlled *legal* immigration. Where the issue arises is the suspicion many (the majority?) of these individuals are simply economic migrants. If these people are genuine asylum seekers and not just illegal economic migrants chancing their arm I have no problem accepting them as refugees into Europe, and I personally would have no problem with a barge full of *genuine* refugees in my backyard. However, more widely, Europe in toto needs to seriously address the migration issue. I’m pro legal immigration and obviously pro helping out genuine asylum seekers. But we have borders in this world, for better or worse, and surely every country, *every* country has the right to determine *exactly* who and who it does not admit. In the same way that every home-owner has a right to decide who to let into their house, Europe has this same right. As far as I can tell, most (the vast majority in fact) of the incoming migrants to Europe are simply economic migrants and unless they have specific skills they can contribute to a given country’s economy or unless they are bona fide *genuine* refugees fleeing life-threatening war/persecution, a strong message should be sent out that the doors will be locked when they arrive at Europe’s house.

These people are not ‘traumatised and vulnerable’ they young men who know exactly what they’re doing

My life has changed Thank you Jesus.$35,000 weekly profit Our lord God have lifted up my Life!!!, Glory to the everlasting God Almighty.

Still get more than our homeless veterans! It's LUXURY compared to what they're used to, and infinitely better than our homeless! Honestly sickening!

Put the barge on The Thames!

Basic and functional, when we have veterans who served their country sleeping rough. When self employed people cannot afford to go sick. It is time this country spent the little money there is in looking after their own. Over 60s being done out of their pension, despite having paid into it all their working lives. I worry sick about the way this country is going to the dogs. Its time we manned up, stopped trying to be so politically correct all the time and started looking after the British.

Sure it will be burnt down soon by the ungrateful souls

If I was an asylum seeker and I wanted the locals to accept me.. with no job I'd ask for a broom and a plastic bag and start cleaning the streets and footpaths unpaid. How could anyone say you're bad for the community then, and it takes the legs out of the argument that you're a spunger.

They shouldn't even be hear, every single one should be sent back....

now Tourism is destroyed, will there be compensation for those dependent on Tourism ? will that be at tax-payers expense ? so we're paying twice for this already ?

This barge will be full with one day's new arrivals. Then What next Einstein??

I think they mis-spelt "Asylum Seekers". It's spelt "E C O N O M I C - M I G R A N T S"

I think that the cold and homeless of the U.k. would LOVE a room on the Barge…with easy access to medical care and food, warmth and safety. What do these people think they deserve - a few weeks at The Ritz????

Asylum seekers have been breaking into houses in my city

This is insanity - it would be kinder to bring them into The Army for a year or two where they could learn some useful skills like HGV, logistics, cooking and learn the culture of the host country. They will be bored out of their minds there, only mix with each other and endless trouble will appear down the line.

Good luck Uk. Tough times ahead of you

"Vulnerable and traumatised people" WOW what on earth did they do with the women and children. I think this reporter should volunteer as a maid on board. She will get on famously!

Decent accommodation that, much more than what our own homeless people get..

WAKE UP, YOU'RE BEING REPLACED

Despite the title, very little of this video is inside the barge.

The fact that children aren’t even allowed art on the wall to make their environment slightly less scary, tells us the only reason they’re doing this is to appeal to Sun and Express readers

Crime will be realy bad there

Their councillors need to toughen up like Liverpool’s & Edinburgh’s saying “NO!”

No tourist is gonna go to that town .

The UK armed forces bravery only just saved us in the 2nd world war effort, along with the US who were steadfastly anti-war and who only very late on, were bounced into action by events following the US fiasco at Pearl Harbour, which ridiculed the misguided political thinking in Washington. Following the Pacific wipe out it was on 8th December 1941 that the US declared war on Japan but following this on 11th December 1941 that Hitler declared war on the US thus leaving Roosevelt no option but to declare war that same day against Germany. What a shameful scenario to show lack of allegiance to the UK or any European nation at the time of a dangerous advance by an international aggressor. At this time people in the UK were on near starvation rations. No obesity cult then. Farmers working flat out could still only provide 30% of the country's food requirements. It was touch and go whether Hitler's lethal submarines would win the Atlantic war and totally halt food supplies to the UK, being provided by the US at full price, on expensive credit, and only eventually fully paid off in 2006. Tough treatment for the Nation who were very significant in saving the unprepared US from the Nazis. Now, in 2023 the Nation has surrendered to an invasion of hungry and impoverished aliens, of mainly male gender and future indigenous generations will have to seek new honizons with Elon Musk or accept a life radically changed without any democratic consideration. Where is the Churchill of the 2020s ? It seems he is no longer available as the education system cannot provide fit and thinking adults ready for life's tasks as we have surrendered to Woke and Soft_trivia Cults.

It’s better housing than what our veterans are coping with!

REFORM UK 🇬🇧

Due to a successful halt to illegal immigration Australia has a number of empty detention centres on islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. These centres are excised from Australian immigration laws. The British Govt should lease these centres from Australia and house their illegals in them.

When the barge is full, tow it back to France.

And it only cost the taxpayers £1.6 billion to house 3,000. How much does that work out per illegal immigrant? There is some Grade-A corruption going on here.

This will only encourage many more to come. Already according to official stats, fourteen thousand entered illegally so far this year. That means another twenty-seven of these barges are needed and this is unsustainable. Look at how Rome collapsed whilst the ruling class engaged in perversions they allowed the Barbarians to live amongst them, and when they had sufficient numbers they tore Rome apart. The same will happen to England.

Lots of our homeless people would love to be in there now.Merry Christmas.

No to Rwanda.. no to barge.. no to RF BASES.. SO WHAT????????

This can’t be done what a disgrace we are

The U.K. government needs to stop luxury incentives like these. It’s just encouraging more and more to illegally arrive.

British people can’t afford to eat, heat there homes or pay there mortgages but we keep letting people in. Madness

compared to what the migrants dealt with in regards to housing? i disagree and see the accommodations as "warm & welcoming." again going from living for weeks, months or longer in tents, under tarpsor with no shelter whatsoever, the barge accommodations are a substantial improvement. if you expect something like the Ritz Carlton for these individuals you're living in a fantasy world. there are thousands of homeless persons in the UK now who don't have it nearly so good as what these new migrants will.

And now the first suicide, probably a young man from Iran, Afghanistan or Eritrea seeking asylum in what he thought was a safe country. It is said that among the 500 or so captives there is a whole variety of mental health problems stemming from their countries of origin and their forbidding and often times dangerous journeys. Now isolated in an offshore prison indefinitely -what would that do for anyone’s mental health even if you didn’t already suffer? A cruel gimmick so some can say oh good, now this govt can spend more on our own people? Fools. Thank you to the 60 odd charities that are legally challenging this shameful brutal system .

This isn't going to stop anyone from coming here. Waste of tax-payers money.

Arrive in a small boat and live on a larger boat very good solution to allow checks to take place

Ho please they are not all traumatised they are coming from France there is a strong difference between immigration a nd illegal migration and eventually they will complain about the living conditions or distroy it

While our own sleep on the street

And you tow it back to their country once its full.

The so called ' Refugees' are lucky to be able to have a bed, warm food, toilet facilities, cash, safety. The not so lucky are the local homeless people. Best is to STOP the crossings. Is like your own home. Where any stranger can just walk in, and you have to look after them, but your brother is thrown out in the street!🙈😡

Tories in action flexing UK muscle... lol

1:10 It isn't intended to be welcoming, it's intended to be safe and secure. Despite what you might think, channel 4, they are not on eternal holiday on our money.

Just move 10 of the asylum seekers into each of the British parliament members houses along with the leaders of the city levels. Problem solved.

How in anyway is this a deterrent to illegal entrants??!?! Why do they get better living standards the British people who have lived here and contributed for decades??

Ultimately a safe Haven. Haven't they fled certain death (via numerous safe Countries) to get here? They must be very happy!!

Lock them up, send them home.

Refugees welcome but not in my town.

Shocking.

How our country goes all out to support these people, yet they do not support our people. Just so you know we have traumatised people living here, so stop trying too make it sound something it’s not.

I wonder if they will open up their homes to the to these people.

Crying about a warm clean. Place to live

Traumatised and vulnerable people what a load of BS , Weymouth and Dorset will find out real quick

The illegal trespassers do not like bibby stockholm prison barge because bibby stockholm prison barge is not a five star luxury hotel If the illegal trespassers do not like bibby stockholm prison barge then the illegal trespassers can always go back to Abu Dhabi

Charity???

Theyve got it pretty nice considering theyve come from war torn countrys, and seen all that bloodshed, They must be feeling very safe now .

Where is human rights. UN watching this barbarism

are there more than sufficient life belts redily available? Are there enough inflatables for all immigrants & staff to allow safe evation into the sea? Is there emergency lighting ? Will there be regular fire drills? What is the availablity of fire engines/ rescue to arrive quickly? What is the alarm system there? Will there be emergency evacuation information in various languages ? Are the EXIT points sufficient and freely open 24/7. Will there be designated stewards tp lead any evacuation? Where will any rescued people be sent to and is there the capacity in local hospitals to deal with, say, 200 plus at one time?

When it's full you should tell it back to France

Its got a tv room a gym, clean warm rooms outside yard good food , and they still moan send them home or tow it out to sea and sink it 🎉

How luxurious and generous of our government and taxpayer are. We have recently learnt the cost to the UK taxpayer for illegal migrants to be processed is over £160,000 per person, most have land and wealth where thry come from yet are allowed to keep they should have to forfeit to offset the cost. I have to do my wife's legal immigration and settlement the cost to the taxpayer is £0 the cost to me is substantial. I can take you too at least 2/3rds of the worlds countries where to claim asylum sees you escorted into a tin can to be returned on the next available flight where they come from, we are a soft touch we area soft touch.

gets me has to why the government haven't thought of using the many empty prisons we have in the uk at the moment. or would that not be a good idea.

This is horrible accommodation. Austere, basic, and on the sea. Definitely not suitable for people who have experienced trauma, had to leave their homeland, and have survived a dangerous sea journey. This is just playing to small-minded people who have never had to fight for their lives.

“It isn’t welcoming at all”it looks ok to me more left wing bias thrown in.

No doubt the migrants will complain.

Some of the migrants are complaining about the food, they have asked if the chef can be changed. What a joke.

these people should be put straight on flights back their own countries, just like we would be, not housed in luxury, then maybe 11000 people would not be dying weekly in the uk. i will go live on the barge any day, double room, 3 free meals daily, shower with hygien products, snooker room, gym, tv lounge, laptop computers, give me a job on the barge, i am a chef and steward by trade, and ex armed forces, so i even have security training. like i said, i use to work on the ships, so now how they work. lets not also forget they get medical treatment, they will be living a better life then i live, and better then 20 million people living in uk, right now, no income and no support.

The accommodation is fine or maybe they would rather go back to france living in tents it is nore than the economic migrants deserve.

They should be lucky this is taxpayer's money

Now we just gotta get them all on it, get a tug boat, tow it to the middle of the atlantic and leave it there.

Loving that it's in Dorset

Amnesty int.???

One asylum seeker sadly commited suicide there today, it was reported on the news again ang again and again ALL day. There is 15-20 sucides in the UK EVERY DAY. What about reporting those suicides too??

Poor people are just trying to escape the war in the Fran... its full of riots at the moment, which could be really frightening for them

23000 people come over on a dinghy............................it can house 500..............................whats the point or am I missing something................is it the Tardis.