Asylum seekers on Bibby Stockholm are doing better work than Tory politicians
The barge: Bibby Stockholm seems to have become home to a group of people who are having a hugely positive effect volunteering to help homeless people in Portland and Weymouth. Perhaps asylum-seekers are better than Tory politicians have pretended?
Asylum-seekers who have been detained by the Tory government on the Bibby Stockholm barge are doing charity work in Portland and nearby Weymouth, it has been revealed.
They aren’t allowed to work for wages while they wait for the Tory-run Home Office to assess their asylum claims.
Instead, some of them are filling the huge amount of free time on their hands by volunteering for charities:
Azad [not his real name], an asylum seeker currently living on the Bibby Stockholm barge, is devoting his time to volunteering for homeless charities in Weymouth… and Portland, helping to cook and distribute food for those who are living on the streets during the coldest months of the year.
Several of the asylum seekers living on the barge have now begun volunteering with local charities – and in particular, charities working with homeless people.
Some of the men on board the barge have experience in charity work, having worked for organisations in their home countries… Others have volunteered at charities in London or other parts of the country where they were housed before moving to the Bibby Stockholm.
The asylum seekers receive around £9 a week as an allowance to spend on food or leisure in Weymouth or Portland… Azad said he spends the majority of his weekly allowance on food to give to homeless people in Weymouth.
Compare this with the antics of the Tory MPs in Parliament, whose policies seem designed to make as many people homeless as possible – and who seem unlikely to spend any time working to ease the lives of those their policies have ruined.
Source: Portland barge: Asylum seekers helping homeless charities | Dorset Echo
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Who do they think they are? Coming over here? Helping our homeless people, giving what little they have to do a good turn in a country that treats them like dirt! I really feel for them..
How dare these ‘refugee scroungers’ (sic) steal our volunteer jobs (not) – don’t they realise they are prisoners because they dared to enter racist and xenophobic little england!
Fascist tories and their malestream fascist media will be furious to learn most refugees are not the mythical ‘criminals and scroungers’ as commonly claimed by lying crooked fascist tories!
Shame on the fascist tories for refusing to recognise the skills and immense expertise most refugee women and men have which should be utilised for benefit of our society. Not only do these refugee women and men want to utilise their immense skills and expertise but it also gives them purpose rather than wasting away in a souless prison which fascist tories created to inflict psychological torture on them all!