I felt physically sick when I saw this being reported on the news just now, and I would defy any sane, compassionate human being not to be appalled too. “A barge due to house 500 male migrants will be towed into a Cornish port later….The government plans to move the three-storey barge to Portland to house the migrants, off the Dorset coast.” Is this really what we have become as a country? Have we become so xenophobic, so fucked up that we have taken to locking people seeking refuge here in what are essentially prison hulks? Instead of caring for these people and treating them as human beings, we are now going to lock them away on a rusty old boat. How can anyone be so savage, so barbarous? Sometimes all you can do is despair at the way things are going in this country.