While I wouldn't have used his language, I don't disagree with the sentiment and I can't imagine the majority of people do. Why do these single, fit, healthy young men, often from countries where there is no actual war, or anything to flee beyond poverty and a lack of opportunity, think they can pick and choose where they will stay at the taxpayer's expense for months, while they are processed?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the barge accommodation whatsoever. It's safe, it's clean, there will be hot showers, they'll get three meals a day. It may not be the food they'd always choose but how could it be, with so many different nationalities and tastes to cater for? It's free and it's guaranteed. They won't starve, they won't freeze to death, if they need medical treatment they will get it. They won't be beaten or tortured. They won't be locked up. There are leisure facilities and they are not held at sea, they can come onshore as they like. What's the fuck is the actual problem?
The people who have refused to go aboard have no doubt been emboldened and egged on by activists trying their best to bring down the government down, telling them to stand their ground and that they are 'entitled' to somewhere better. Who does that actually benefit, in the end? Certainly it seems some of these men are not happy with the quality of the hotels they've been put in either, yet they look no worse than the average purpose built student accommodation, which costs students (or rather their parents) thousands per year to rent.
You'd think after a few weeks or months of a treacherous journey on foot or bribing their way into the backs of vans, followed by a period of time dossing under a tarpaulin in seedy, unsafe and hostile Calais, followed by a perilous small boat crossing where they almost always send out a distress call as soon as they are safely into UK waters, so as to be taxied in by the RNLI or border force, that a clean bed, free hot meals and free lawyers working on their behalf would be sufficient to cheer them up a bit. But no. It's not good enough. Meanwhile we have a serious ticking time bomb of a housing crisis in this country, with millions already 'vulnerably housed' and no end in sight.
We needed a safe, affordable, practical, long term solution and this is it. It's not Rwanda, which you'd think would make some people relieved and satisfied. But are they relieved or satisfied? Are they fuck.
I think the people whose mission it is to sabotage every solution or suggestion that's put forward to what is a complex problem on a massive scale, need to examine what their real motives are. I think you don't actually give a shit about the people themselves, or about the long term ramifications of how many migrants continue to arrive with nowhere to go. You are just obsessed with making life as difficult as possible for this government, at any cost. To prove what, I am not entirely sure.