A purpose-built centre for processing asylum claims on the Isle of Wight has been proposed by an independent website publishing a programme of political policy ideas.
‘The Burnham Programme’ has published a detailed proposal setting out how the Isle of Wight could be used to process asylum claims domestically rather than simply accommodate asylum seekers while decisions are made.
However, the proposal isn’t an official document of any political party, was not written by Andy Burnham and is not endorsed by Mr Burnham, his team or any organisation associated with him.
Under the hypothetical asylum proposal, claims would be registered and considered at an Isle of Wight centre under UK law, with appeals taking place where permitted.
It advocates a maximum decision timeframe of 12 months for ordinary cases, arguing that simply moving asylum seekers to an island without speeding up decisions would recreate the problems associated with the asylum hotel system.
Rather than functioning primarily as accommodation, the proposed centre would be a purpose-built, land-based facility centred around processing claims, with caseworkers and legal advisers available.
The proposal points to the experience of the Bibby Stockholm barge at Portland, which it says exposed problems relating to cost, safety, occupancy, public consent and welfare.
According to the programme, an Isle of Wight facility would need to avoid those problems through purpose-built infrastructure, appropriate staffing, legal access, independent inspection and the publication of performance data.
Of particular relevance to Islanders is the potential pressure such a facility could place on existing local services.
Healthcare, policing, transport and legal advice are all specifically identified as areas which would require additional capacity and funding if a processing centre was established on the Isle of Wight.
The proposal calls for a separate funding settlement to cover those additional demands, warning that without one the Isle of Wight could be left bearing the local costs of a national immigration policy without national compensation.
It does not propose automatically detaining everyone passing through the centre. Instead, detention would be used only where lawful criteria were met, with identity, security, absconding risk and imminent removal identified as possible circumstances.
Detention would need to be regularly reviewed and accompanied by access to legal advice.
Cases which could not reasonably be completed within the proposed 12-month timeframe – including some involving complex trafficking issues, serious medical evidence or unusual conditions in a person’s country of origin – would instead leave the detained route and be dealt with through another process.
Crucially, publication of the proposal does not mean that an asylum processing centre on the Isle of Wight has been approved or is being developed by the UK Government, nor is the proposal an Andy Burnham policy.
The proposal does not identify a location on the Isle of Wight, the number of asylum seekers who could be processed, an opening date or an agreed funding package.
Instead, it sets out how those behind the independent Burnham Programme website believe an Isle of Wight processing centre could operate and the legal, financial and operational safeguards they say would be required.
On Saturday, Island Echo reported that Reform UK councillors on the Isle of Wight had vowed to oppose attempts to use the Island for asylum accommodation after Mr Burnham said all parts of the country should ‘play their part’ in the dispersal of refugees and asylum seekers.
Editor’s footnote: This article has been amended to clarify the status of The Burnham Programme and its relationship with Andy Burnham. The Burnham Programme website is independent, was not written by Andy Burnham and is not endorsed by Mr Burnham, his team or any organisation associated with him.
0i Burnham No!
It is nothing to do with Burnham. Read the article
No. The Isle of Wight is not a dumping ground for the state’s failed asylum system.This “processing centre” simply dumps the same broken model onto a small island: high costs, stretched services, and local people left to deal with the fallout. Adding large numbers of men from cultures where women are treated as second-class—or worse—raises real safety risks for Island women and girls. We have already seen the pattern elsewhere. Britain needs removals, borders and deterrence, not another facility that imports the problem and calls it “processing.” Reject it.
Well said totally agree. We do not have a big enough hospital as it
They would send patients to the mainland like they
already do in most cases.
Well just keep them on the mainland then and save time.
Is that for all the future stab and murder victims ?
The Island has enough local numpties assaulting
people or attacking pensioners or persons in
wheelchairs etc, so I doubt any extra crimes will
come along.
NO, NO, NO, GOD FORBID.
Totally agree
Well said I couldn’t agree more.This is something the island really doesn’t need tbh I don’t know of any part of Britain that needs or wants it.our cultures clash massively,the problems this would create are ten fold.
I hope this is a joke?
It certainly has nothing to do with government, just some fly by night flying a kite
Refurbish the old Camphill prison – thats a good place to start. On a more serious note asylum seekers would hate being island based. I wonder how many would abscond to the North Island?
This is complete scaremongering. Please reconsider reporting this in the way you have, we have enough division in this country, we do not need for it to be fuelled on the Island by articles like this.
It’s cobblers, and not associated to Burnham or Labour at all.
Who incites division, one wonders?
It’s literally part of the “Burham project” consultation process.
It’s literally nothing to do with any Burnham project!
Jersey Camp on the Isle of Wight is a military and cadet training facility, while references to a “processing centre” stem only from a speculative, un-implemented 2020 government proposal report. GOVERNMENT.
Crowborough Military camp in Sussex took their fair share
recently.
Atherfield Bay site would be an ideal location
it is out the way on the Military Road.
Too be honest the Military Road thesedays is only a
speed road.
It was great to see the police van there on Saturday
I hope they caught a load of speeding numpties.
It would be more successful if they used UNMARKED
vans then numpties couldn’t warn others what’s ahead.
They would catch 3 times the amount of offenders.
Illegal Immigrants incite division, quite simple really. If you like ’em so much, take some in.
Local law breaking numpties incite division too.
No way do we want illegal immigrants on our Island, these illegal immigrants have already broken the law by coming across the channel in dinghies and invading our country, they should be deported as soon as they reach our shores.
Where should they be deported to?
The bottom of the ocean
Anywhere other than here. Mid Atlantic would be fine
Out of the back door of an RAF transport at 10000ft.
over the North Atlantic in winter without a parachute.
Did you actually read the article before commenting?
Yes deported to ALL parts of the UK including the
Isle of Wight
Lol
Well said
It’s way of life thesedays and the Isle of Wight is in the
United Kingdom so if needs must then they have to do their
bit.
Look at Bournemouth once home to luxury holidays
they have more than their fair share.
Hope its built next door to you then.
I doubt it would, but if so I would move.
That would be a wonderful irony. Tho no thanks, they do spread like vomit.
I can’t wait to get raped, such an exciting future for us women
Bit of an exaggeration, there is good and bad in
all people.
If they were good then why try to get here illegally???? France is not exactly a worn torn wilderness is it.
What we should be concerned about why do we pay
France millions of pounds yet they let them cross the
channel.
If I pay Bouncers to keep people out of a nightclub etc
I don’t expect them to let them in.
France is the cause.
Bonjour
Thought hat was Pitcairn Island, maybe they could send them there, they built a purpose built prison for that case didn’t they?
It’s a way of life to be an illegal immigrant?
Get burnhams nuts out your mouth
If the West left their countries alone in the first
place they wouldn’t of had to flee their own country.
Omg we don’t need to do our bit at all would you still agree if it was in your front garden or are you so rich you think they wouldn’t be near you well I hope you don’t have daughters or younger children because you clearly don’t listen to what’s happening in the world shame on you
Believe me I know what’s happening in this world
hence moving to the island many years ago.
It was only a matter of time before the island entered
the real Britain, for years it’s been mini Britain of the 1950s
that is now changing and no one can do a thing about it.
Look what’s happening all around the country, no one likes
it, but no one is changing it.
The island is finally waking up because it now MIGHT effect
THEM. In the past it’s been I’m alright Jack this is the
Isle of Wight it won’t happen to US!
So you’re an immigrant too. Using our Doctors and hospital. I think you should go back to where you came from. Moving here just because you wanted a better environment. Sound familiar to you?
What I love about numpties on the island many of them
have a dislike of persons from various parts of the mainland
yet alone persons of a different culture.
I say bring them over serves you right for being r acist B’stards.
Brexit didn’t solve a thing
You really should not reply to this muppet, who has about 5 or more multi-identities.
He is the “original” enough is enough, but now posts as Mr Smith as a”supporter” of illegals, but as EiE he wants them gone.
He is harmless enough, just odd.
Bless you
And there it is!! ” more than their fare share” summed it up perfectly.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander
He who laughs last, is worth two in a horses stable.
We can all talk bollocks, tho we do prefer leaving it to you.
My worry the illegals will drive faster than 20mph. The numpties
So do legal people drive above 20mph
Yes because 20mph is too slow. Unless you have the reaction time of an arthritic tortoise. In that case dont drive.
I’m no lover of the boy racers, tearing about, with loudners fitted, popping and banging around the place.
And excessive speed is not good, especially for the inexperienced driver, tho give them the chance to gain experience or die trying.
Speed traps are purely easy money collection points, not about changing drivers attitudes. Hence them always being down hill where the car can easily gain momentum, unless you spend the entire time with your foot on the brake. Or hidden around a corner.
The police are supposed to be there to keep the peace, not tax collectors for councils and all the other halfwits we have to support.
What an utterly appalling suggestion. The Island is totally unsuitable for this purpose. It will destroy tourism plus we just don’t have the medical facilities as our small hospital is already overloaded coping with our own people.
Also, the idea of a culturally incompatible group being processed, and thanks to the appeals process housed, here is quite scary, do we really want these men hanging around our schools as has been the case on the mainland?
Perhaps our egregious PM is also not aware that our ferries will cost the country a fortune.. Bringing them here is not only bad for the Island but for Britain too!
“Perhaps our egregious PM is also not aware…”
perhaps if you actually read the article, you would be aware that this ‘suggestion’ has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to to with the PM, or the labour party….
if truth were known, it was probably created for/by Farage to stoke exactly the reaction it has got from you…..
Tourism is already destroyed, check out the amount
of holidaymakers thesedays.
There are a lot at Alum (bom)Bay apparently
Alum Bay is full of persons of culture who
love the place and visit by Coaches mainly on
day trips from the mainland.
I love Alum Bay i love the diversity.
You do put the C in controversial very well. Not sure Alum Bay has ever been a cultural destination tho. And it must be eye wateringly expensive bringing a coach over now.
A car is half a leg, one kidney, and two pints of blood. And thats returning on the same day. Period return, if you have to ask, you cannot afford it.
A ‘public advocacy website’ of no particular name, no particular author, of a subject we all know will be inflammatory here and on a subject that Burnham has already said will NOT be rolled out in poorer areas.
“The online The Burnham Programme website is an independent analytical platform and public advocacy project. It is not authored or officially endorsed by Andy Burnham or his government administration, and the site operates anonymously as a policy-tracking resource rather than disclosing specific individual authors or editors.”
Now I wonder which political persuasion might have orchestrated that?
There was a rumour that someone in the old council, now voted off with the rest, had been colluding with Starmer’s lot to house illegals in return for wiping the islands debts, maybe this is the start of it?
Sounds about right to me.
Starmer’s lot should in my humble opinion, be gassed like badgers were. And we wouldn’t need a made up excuse to do it.
Build it in Manchester
Could not agree more, right next door to the number 10 of the north, another waste of taxpayers money. Its all baloney in any case, not really sure any value in “reporting” this in the first place.
Thats not even a photo of Handy Burnthem..project Burnthem.. clue is in the name.. migrant’s are trained in UN body disposal, another enemy cell planted by our Nazi Globalist run government. UN Agenda 2030 and Net zero 2050 we are the carbon guys wakey wakey. Time to resist central government orders and stand shoulder to shoulder.
Tin hat needed ^^
And tin drawers
lol
You are spot on.
Brilliant idea.
Think of the employment it will bring to the island.
I sincerely hope thats sarcasm. Or your head is so far up your arse, you can see daylight coming through your ears. Luckily your brain won’t dim it much.
The fish weren’t biting so I thought I would change the bait.
They could police the lawless island
Did you say Burnham enough times? Hope it sticks? The sceptic in me would suggest this was written by reform. Even linked a previous press release. Come on Mackenzie, how about some impartiality.
Halleluja! SOMEONE with brain cells!
The first problem is purpose built. This government and the iow council struggle to build anything in a reasonable time period. Although put them in an empty prison would be a good idea. Next problem is this advocacy story does not take into account the ferry charges. Problem three might be their human rights as they will be stuck on an island and not free to roam.
Anyway for now it’s a non story, just a think tank waffling away.
Let’s hope it is think wank waffling, just the thought of it sickens me. It beggars belief how the majority have been hoodwinked into thinking this is great and so humane, to virtue signal by letting our borders collapse, welcoming in anyone, not caring who or what they are.
I assume the brainwashed think ALL the news stories of gang rapes, pedophilic abuse, stabbings, muggins, numerous road offences, robbings etc, are completly fabricated by people in a cellar, with Hitler moustaches and nothing better to do?
The majority of migrants do not integrate or accept our way of life, they fully intend to take control enough to change everything Britain has stood for, for centuries, into bizarrely the same shit country they ‘escaped’ from.
Do some off ‘main stream’ media research, look at ‘their’ principles they are brought up with. Attitudes towards anyone not them. Numerous civil wars where genocides occurred, all over religion, which baffles me completly. And thats any religion, even the crusades, spreading gods word by the blade?? Nothings changed.
Wake up people please, listen to the people of Northern Ireland. The day the Loyalists and the Republicans stand side by side, the dream of every British politician for centuries, shows how much they realise this is potentially a life, (for the worse) changing problem.
I’m not far right,certainly not left, was til that excuse for a man Blair appeared. I hate most political parties as they do not give a flying turd about anyone but themselves.
So please just think for yourself and not go with the bollocks they tell us
As this “article” contains the following:
“Crucially, publication of the proposal does not mean that an asylum processing centre on the Isle of Wight has been approved or is being developed by the UK Government.
The proposal does not identify a location on the Island, the number of asylum seekers who could be processed, an opening date or an agreed funding package.
Instead, it sets out how those behind the public advocacy website believe an Isle of Wight processing centre could operate and the legal, financial and operational safeguards they say would be required.”
one might be forgiven for asking a) what is the purpose of writing it? and b) what is the purpose of publishing it? Financial reward? Perhaps.
Then, one of the putrid, white British hating commenters, who regularly refer to anyone who disagrees with them as a “nazi”, racist”, xenophobe” etc and who applaud those who make death threats to Farage, GB News journalist Patrick Christys and any one else who disagrees with them, comes up with the answer!
It is all a right wing plot!
Of course it is!
They must a) be terrified of the impending financial inquiry and b) of Burnham et al.
Why is Burnham allowing our Country to be used like this ? When is enough is enough? Do we keep taking them to the detriment of ourselves & our way of living ? Why are we dishing out Benefits & phones ? They should be locked up until they are deported in Camphill, what upsets me is our so called Government is doing nothing ? It’s not racist to not want this in our villages.
I so agree. Burnham is a tool
People on the mainland are not keen but they didn’t
have a choice.
A lot were to start with, when the problem was in the next county, the woke waving their card board placards, demonstrating how inclusive they are.
Now the invasion is well underway, the placards remain in the shed, as a reminder of their foolishness and their belief in a useless, lying government.
Maybe now too late, pray for a miracle.
Just imagine Britain as the first Islamic state with nuclear weapons??
What could go wrong??
You only had to look at many mainland places
since the 1970s it was obvious this was going to
happen.
Islanders will hopefully stand as 1 against this. It is not to happen on our island. Children and women will no longer be able to walk freely and safely. Already stretched public services will be non existent. Thus government are a joke. We need Rupert Lowe in as soon as possible.
Rupert the bear might be a better option.
What does the iow labour mp say?
I would imagine……”Do you want fries with that?”
salt and vinegar
Lol
Apparently he thinks the public are, or should be, more concerned with global warming and cost of living.
Politically a great idea. Building such a centre in a predominately Farage voting area is not going to lose Labour a lot of votes.
2 MPs and neither one is from Reform.
Did the recent local elections pass you by.
Prick
Watch out Porchfield, most likely candidate for a processing centre, Jersey Camp, all new painted fences, new security signs, and CCTV to left of the entrance behind the tall hedge at the main gate. Next on the list one of the old prisons, or the old Ryde Town Hall. They won’t build anything new to have these damn illegals, they will just put them somewhere to infect and cause trouble for the locals, hospital and the police. The island locals will put up a bigger fight than even people did at The Bell Hotel. Island Echo please investigate this more, don’t let it get buried in the trivial news.
I have been told on good authority that 250 brand new homes are to be built in Ryde to house asylum seekers and islanders or anyone else, will not be allowed any of these homes. They are specifically allocated for asylum seekers as we have to take a proportion along with the rest of the UK.
Maybe they are the ones they are building
in Puckpool.
Where did you get that information?? Who is the “good authority”?
Labour always trash the UK.
Now this failed MP, voted back in by less than 25000 people, continues that mission.
UK more like a third world Banana Republic.
Wankers
A very large and definate NO to this idea.
Let us deal with the facts. This is not a government proposal. It has not come from the Home Office, Andy Burnham, the Labour Party or the Isle of Wight Council. It was written by an anonymous, unofficial advocacy website with no formal connection to the Government.
There is no identified site, no Home Office contact with the Council, no formal notification, no land designation, no procurement process, no agreed funding and no proposed opening date. The Island Echo’s own article confirms that no centre has been approved or is being developed by the Government.
Despite that, Councillor James Whelan is publicly opposing something that does not exist. If he has evidence of a genuine government proposal, he should publish it. Otherwise, this is simply manufacturing anger and division around a hypothetical story.
The Island has enough real and immediate problems requiring councillors’ attention: failing ferry services, a housing crisis, serious pressures on SEND provision and social care, the Council’s finances, the Floating Bridge and sewage discharges into our waters. We should be dealing with those evidenced problems, not making up new ones for political attention.
Jock, oddly enough, you being a “socialist” and all, from what I know and hear, you are not one of those shouty Liebore arsewipes like Rachel Maskell, who say one thing one minute and 180 U turn the next.
You are right that the island has enough real and immediate problems, but you are totally wrong when you say:
“Despite that, Councillor James Whelan is publicly opposing something that does not exist”.
You seem to conveniently forget that No Mandate Andy publicly stated that every part of OUR country MUST accept “their fair share” of illegals and one may safely assume that “every part” will include the Island, so Whelan is not “making up new ones for political attention”.
He is preparing quite rightly, to repel boarders!
No Mandate King Of The North Andy has NO intention of implementing any governments first duty to protect its citizens, just as Two Tier Keir and Boris “the Stud” Johnson before him.
The only “anger and division” is being caused by Tory and Labour Governments whose sole aim is to screw over its citizens in favour of thousands upon thousands of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, who are being looked after as though they are much more important than British people.
We did not vote for the “Boris wave”, nor the Merkel “come one come all” policy just before she LEFT OFFICE!
That division will never heal unless and until a government stop this invasion.
You have confirmed my point by saying that “one may safely assume” the Isle of Wight will be included. An assumption is not a proposal and it is certainly not evidence.
Andy Burnham spoke generally about a fairer national approach to asylum dispersal. He did not name the Isle of Wight or announce an Island processing centre. There is still no identified site, no Home Office contact with the Council, no formal notification, no land designation, no procurement process and no agreed funding. The article itself confirms that no centre has been approved or is being developed by the Government.
James Whelan is therefore not opposing an actual proposal; he is campaigning against something he assumes might happen. That may generate attention and anger, but it does not make the claim true.
People are entitled to debate immigration policy robustly, but that debate should be based on facts. If any genuine government proposal emerges, I will consider it on its evidence and the impact on the Island. Until then, I will concentrate on the serious problems already in front of us rather than pretend a hypothetical website proposal is government policy.
Jock, I appreciate your reply and would like to correct your assumptions that No Mandate Andy spoke generally about a fairer “national approach to asylum dispersal”.
He did not!
He said that we must all take our fair share!
What is happening is ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT DISPERSAL – NOT asylum dispersal, as you well know.
You go on to say “People are entitled to debate immigration policy robustly, but that debate should be based on facts”.
I agree and the facts are that we should not be using terms other than ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS for people who arrive here unlawfully by rigid inflatable boats.
If it is a debate about asylum that you want, then you should hold that debate in France and ask why these people leave France, a very safe country, to come here.
Free housing – Free food – Free clothing – Free health care – Free dentistry – Free access to gyms – Free mobile phones and unlimited internet access – and worst of all – Free access to women and children.
Finally you say “ An assumption is not a proposal and it is certainly not evidence”.
If the island was chosen as a dumping ground for illegals, would you support Whelan, or say we have to take our fair share?
Indeed sent them back to France, and if the French whine about, which they will, declare war and invade the garlic munchers. Only take about a week and to show their devotion to their new home, the first few waves could be the actual illegal immigrants.
Solve a lot of problems in one simple action. Thumbs up
No Burnham smoke without fire. We don’t need to manufacture anger and division it has always been there, but now, with this government it has come to the surface, far right, no, our rights, yes.
The King of the north came to power with one Idea Destroy the South thats the plan build the Shield Wall. after the Battle or in Valhala .
West street old doctors is turning into an HMO right near a school could this be the place for housing them,I really hope not.
It is owned by Rufus Owalabi, who lives in Nottingham. The property will accommodate 17 people and they will possibly establish a “beachhead”.
BTW I see Smith is trolling you now. I did warn you!
What I find funny is that the mainland have been
putting up with this for a number of years now
and no one has stopped this from happening.
Now the small Isle of Wight may be affected the
residents are up in arms.
How do you think the rest of the country feels
they have had enough and more of their fair share.
Now the island residents are getting their knickers
in a twist.
It may not even happen, enjoy the sunshine
it’s another warm one.
So because everywhere else was too cowardly to do anything and walked themselves into their own suicidal empathy paths we should just bow down and follow, I don’t think so. That’s most of the people’s points here, we will NOT stand for it on our beautiful island, it has gotten bad enough we don’t have to accept more crap because other idiots decided they would sit quiet. Most of this country is starting to stand up and realise that now, we are Brittania and we will not go down quietly!!
Everywhere else are not cowards they didn’t have a choice
just like the island won’t have a choice.
Ywat Mr Smith
Voting for Nige won’t change a thing.
Bless
This government are sending 220million pounds of British tax payers money to France each year for the next 3 years. Apparently to help reduce the influx of Rapest & Murders to our shores. Personally I would saying the French are spending this money on overtime shifts for their Police / Gendarmerie. They are needed in & around the waterways & beaches to assist in the carrying of these very heavy rubber boats from the Lorry’s they are delivered in. Then pass over to their colleagues to start pumping up these 30 meter long crafts to a psi that can withstand the weight of the utter filth & rubbish jumping in to illegally make it to our shores. The Government have been so happy with the French, they increased the amount of funding. So paying to send them across the Solent will matter not one jot!!
its a joke. They can’t stop a rubber boats full of illegals from reaching our border force boats. What chance would we have with the Russians!!!
I though ol sunak gave france £3 billion over 3/4 years?? or has that all gone already..and where ..i know corrupt peoples pockets..
We already have an uncontrolled influx of illegal aliens here. All the government are doing is saving costs in their budget by putting the costs on local councils for these centres and the HMO’s.
Dont be so stupid, why send anyone here when they are already being processed in Kent, its just lies or fantasy by Burnhams idiot buddies.
Plenty of uninhabited islands in up north ….” LEAVE OUR ISLAND ALONE ” better still Stop letting scum into our country , send them back where they came from its like living in somalia, theyre everywhere,, call it racist whatever !!,,, be like the slums of brazil here soon ….
Neither pure nor island blood. You clearly didn’t know that the DNA of people here originates from places like the Eurasian Steppe (Hungary, Russia, Kazakhstan and as far afield as Mongolia), Germany, Denmark, France, Belgium etc.
You’d best get your YDNA checked and hand yourself in for repatriation.
Migrants, every one.
Migrants indeed been here for centuries, established businesses, grown communities, set ‘ rules’ of behavior for the common good.
Not smuggled themselves in, planning on changing things to the way they want it, getting a free ride in everything, living by their own corrupt laws.
Why would any remotely sane person want that?
Omg.
They have lost the plot if this is true.
The infrastructure would not cope.
They shouldn’t be here illegally send them all back and they need to go through the LEGAL channels if they want to try to li e here.
They have already come through several safe places just to get here, boat loads of men of a certain age we don’t want them here.
Sick of it.
REFORM Will sort it if nobody else has the balls.
That thing about where the sun doesn’t shine are my thoughts, i’m surprised we are given the chance to be allowed to have any
No, no and absolutely no! The island is a very friendly laid back almost(?) crime free one so please do not compromise that.
Crime free.
Lol
You must be living on a different Island.
This is the last place they should put migrants (not asylum seekers) because there not, can you imagine with us being a holiday island with all the childrenand young girls around
Easier to watch them being the island is surrounded
by water.
I doubt they would use a Dinghy to get off the island.
One thing is for sure if it goes ahead. There will be a roaring trade in inflatables
It will be the Caulkheads and Grockles leaving the island.
Lol
Who is going to pay for their ferry travel? It I’ll only add to the living costs. Who is making decisions regarding this? Where is the common sense? People living on the island hardly cover the cost of travelling to the mainland. Now our taxes will have to cover costs of other people ferry travel?????
This would be the end of the Isle of Wight. Tourism would die, the hospital wouldn’t cope but at least there would be plenty of room on the ferries, who would come here. New schools and mosques would need to be built all at tax payers expense. We would need a massive increase in police presence to catch the rapists & gangs. Process them in the channel by turning them around.