The barge: Bibby Stockholm has been modified to take nearly twice as many asylum-seekers as it would have accommodated when it was a prison, creating serious humanitarian concerns – and now somebody has died there.

An asylum-seeker who had been sent to the converted prison ship Bibby Stockholm by the Tory government has committed suicide there (it is understood), while the UK’s Parliament debated plans to deport people like him to Rwanda.

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Conditions on the barge have been a matter of hot dispute since the Tories hired it – especially as the Home Office has refused to allow MPs from other parties to visit it and find out what it’s like for themselves:

To the Tories, it seems, the issue of asylum-seekers is one of logistics. They are cargo, not kinfolk, and as such may be handled in any way the lords and masters of the UK deem fit. The most common way seems to be to stoke hatred in order to provide a common enemy for the UK’s voters – one who isn’t a Tory, that is.

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Meanwhile, it seems the Rwanda deportation scheme is becoming ever-more-expensive, despite nobody having been moved anywhere (apart from Tory Home Secretaries):

And the cost of Bibby Stockholm itself is much greater:

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It seems that, now, we must also count the cost in human lives.

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