These are the terms of a lucrative £260m contract for public services company Serco to operate the centres just 200 metres from the runway at the airport for eight years, The Sun reports.
And it makes for appalling reading:
...a 65-page document shows the wealth of provisions offered to migrants in the establishments as they wait to be deported.
Further details of the in-depth art classes show that they involve sketching, crafts and acrylic painting and are conducted in 'comfortable and pleasant' craft rooms.
Migrants can make requests for food, including fresh produce, they would like from the shops. Back at the centre, it is written into the contract that those staying there need to have means of preparing a hot beverage available around the clock
Migrants can make a free international phone call and are afforded access to newspapers in different languages, religious texts and e-books. They receive a further £5 per week of spending money and area able to earn £1 an hour to do work, including serving food, cleaning and managing the on-site gym.
Compare that with what’s on offer for UK citizens confined to hospital, care home, asylum or prison. And...mustn't forget cushy jobs for all those offspring of MPs who have useless arts ans social science degrees:
Diversity and equality committee meetings must be held each month, while the centres are required to appoint a diversity and equality advisor and issue annual race relations reports. Offensive posters must be taken down and removed from view.
This is an abomination.
No comments:
Post a Comment
A reminder, dear reader, that you're welcome to comment as Anon but if so, please invent a moniker to appear somewhere in your text ... it tells Watchers nothing, it does help the readers.