As the Home Office ships more people into concentration camp, join the fight to close Napier Barracks for good
Napier barracks: a journalist was arrested for taking photographs of a protest against conditions in the camp in January – not for taking part, but for embarrassing the Tory government that forces people to live in such inhumane, unhygienic conditions.
It’s scandalous – isn’t it? – that after being forced to empty the notorious Napier Barracks concentration camp for refugees, the Tory government is planning to fill it up again.
The camp, which housed around 400 people in homicidally cramped conditions (during the Covid-19 lockdowns, remember) in which 28 people were forced to share dormitories, was cleared after half its residents contracted the virus.
As an observer, This Writer can only conclude that this was the intention. Why else would Priti Patel put asylum-seekers in such unsuitable accommodation? Remember: other possibilities were available but ignored.
Independent inspectors have reported that the former barracks in Kent is unfit to house anybody at all, pronouncing it “filty” and “impoverished”.
According to The Guardian, the Home Office has absolutely no problem with inflicting more suffering on anybody unfortunate enough to be sent to the Napier site:
“We secured permission to use Napier barracks for 12 months and while pressure on the asylum system remains will continue to make use of the site.”
Take particular notice of the wording: “While pressure on the asylum system remains [we] will continue to make use of the site.”
It indicates that SNP MP Stuart McDonald was right when he said:
“That choice is a political one.
“The whole Home Office machine is hell-bent on ensuring life for people seeking refuge is as miserable as possible in the hope it will put off others from applying for refugee status.”
It has been said before but it is well worth reminding everyone that Home Secretary Priti Patel’s parents fled persecution by Idi Amin in Uganda to settle in the UK – and, to the best of our knowledge, they didn’t have to live in a dehumanising concentration camp.
Now she is very deliberately doing her very best to prevent anybody in a similar position today from doing the same.
In so doing, she sets herself up as a prime example of the selfishness and inhumanity of the current Conservative government – which is fascist in all but name.
Campaigning site 38 Degrees has launched a petition calling on the government to remember its humanity, if not its sanity, close the camp and find humane accommodation for the people being sent there. Already it has accumulated more than 77,000 signatures.
Yours will help change Patel’s mind. Please sign by visiting the petition page here.
Source: Home Office to send more asylum seekers to ‘unsuitable’ Napier barracks | Home Office | The Guardian
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Because you were there of your own free will?