And @care4calais.org :

"Opening more camps will only serve to retraumatise people who have already survived horrors such as war and torture. As the National Audit Office has outlined... they cost more than the hotels they seek to replace when you include the exorbitant set up costs of such sites."

Moving people from a hotel in the city centre to a military base, also in the city centre is likely to achieve... Nothing.

(also some internal Home Office hearsay in there if that's your kind of thing)

Among other issues, this really wakes people up to how people are released from prison with no where to go. They’re just told to leave, even if they have no one meeting them, no home to go to, no safety net. I don’t think many people realise this.

Yep, absolutely. Border Force staff consistently strike to call for better pay and conditions, nothing to do with the political side of it. As usual, Farage full of it.

Hi all. How is it best to reach you with regard to dispensation? My DMs are open. Many thanks.

Absolutely! As journalists,we need to be really careful not to perpetuate that language - it feeds into a very particular narrative....