Bibby Stockholm asylum barge contractor admits overcharging UK government £118m

Australia’s Corporate Travel Management is ā€˜negotiating commercial arrangements’ to refund the money

The Guardian

Bibby Stockholm asylum barge contractor admits overcharging UK government £118m
By Lauren Almeida

Australia’s Corporate Travel Management is ā€˜negotiating commercial arrangements’ to refund the money

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/23/bibby-stockholm-asylum-barge-corporate-travel-management-uk-government

#BibbyStockholm #Immigrationandasylum #Taxandspending #Politics #Business #UKnews #Business #HomeOffice #Australianews #LaurenAlmeida

Bibby Stockholm asylum barge contractor admits overcharging UK government £118m

Australia’s Corporate Travel Management is ā€˜negotiating commercial arrangements’ to refund the money

The Guardian
Bibby Stockholm asylum barge contractor admits overcharging UK government £118m

Australia’s Corporate Travel Management is ā€˜negotiating commercial arrangements’ to refund the money

The Guardian
Friendships, fishing and community clean-ups: the unseen kindness of life on the Bibby Stockholm barge

Bibby Boys photo exhibition documents experiences of the men who lived on the former asylum seeker vessel in Dorset and the local community that rallied around them

The Guardian
Bibby Boys exhibition at Photofusion documents life aboard the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge

Starting from Tues 17th March, Photofusion will be displaying Bibby Boys, an exhibition that documents the experience of the men aboard the Bibby Stockholm barge and the community that rallied arou…

Between August 2023 and November 2024, over 400 asylum seekers were placed on a ship anchored off the UK's south coast, the #BibbyStockholm.

Nour Wahbi argues that the Bibby Stockholm is not an absolute ā€œlegal black holeā€, but a selectively regulated floating border that combines partial legal accountability with political symbolism.

šŸ‘‰ https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/389

These are the lies and cruelty that Brits who vote Reform UK thrive off, the rich can shit on them all they want so long as they can be mean to a foreigner.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/22/man-who-died-on-bibby-stockholm-tricked-into-going-on-barge-inquest-told
#BibbyStockholm #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #ReformUK #Fascism #Xenophobia #HomeOffice

Man who died on Bibby Stockholm ā€˜tricked’ into going on barge, inquest told

Community worker said Leonard Farruku, from Albania, was told he was being taken to a hotel in Swindon

The Guardian

šŸ‡¬šŸ‡§ Bye Bye Bibby

£34.8 Mio. für die Schikanierung von 400 Menschen.
£34.8 Mio. für die Inszenierung von "Das Boot ist voll"

Im Nov. hatten die letzten Asylsuchenden die schwimmende 'Unterkunft' verlassen - die meisten übrigens mit Anerkennung.
Erleichterung in #Portland, #Dorset, dass der Spuk seit Donnerstag letzter Woche vorbei ist.

#BibbyStockholm

via @TheGuardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/30/bibby-stockholm-barge-towed-away-18-months-after-arriving-in-dorset

Bibby Stockholm barge towed away, 18 months after arriving in Dorset

Vessel commissioned by previous Conservative government to house asylum seekers was decommissioned in November

The Guardian
#BBCNews - #BibbyStockholm - Departure of asylum seeker barge welcomed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwypln57ye4o
Bibby Stockholm: Departure of asylum seeker barge welcomed

The vessel was towed out of Portland Port in Dorset by tugboats on Thursday afternoon.

BBC News

The Home Office contract for #BibbyStockholm ends this week

It cost the taxpayer £34.8 million

Every single person who was resident on it was granted #asylum apart from the young man who took his own life. Counselling sessions were made available because of its "psychological cruel" conditions.

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/24838681.home-office-contract-bibby-stockholm-ends-tomorrow/