TWO Bournemouth councillors travelled to Portland to deliver welcome packs for refugees arriving at the Bibby Stockholm barge.
Green Party councillors Alasdair Keddie and Chris Rigby took a van of the packages to the port as the first migrants arrived yesterday, August 7.
The pair, who were not acting on official council business, received port clearance from the Home Office to take the van of packages onto the portside.
Cllr Keddie said the country can do ‘a lot better for asylum seekers and refugees than putting them on planes to Rwanda or putting them on a floating prison in the middle of the ocean’.
“We can open up safe routes, we can work through the backlog and we can depoliticise the whole culture war around asylum seeking,” he said.
“These are not illegal migrants. Asylum seeking refugees are following a legal process, no matter how difficult our government are making it.”
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