I wanted to say the same. People on here hating refugees equally hate benefit claimants or council house occupiers - anyone who is, in their mind, needs help "from their pockets". They might claim otherwise, but they do.
The barge itself is, basically, a prison. Designed to be as awful as possible without actually being a prison. Crammed rooms, no access anywhere, nothing to see out of the windows, nothing to do just sit in the room indefinitely taking turns with your inmate using one chair provided - not for a few weeks, but years and years. And - get this - people who already on it did not "throw their passports away", they are from Syria, Afghanistan, etc - and they came here on planes. They are as genuine asylum seekers as can be, doing things "legally".
The world is going tits up - wars, fires, heat - so there will be more and more people migrating north. Its inevitable. Sticking them into prisons will not solve anything. The only way to deal with the issue of people coming to claim asylum here is to create an efficient and quick system to process claims, and not piss millions of pounds up the wall with insane Rwanda flights or the prison barge. But sorting the bureaucracy out is a bit boring, isn't it? Doesn't generate catchy headlines in DM. And requires training, organising, planning. Not something our dear government is capable of.