Perhaps, but I also write to entertain and you should factor this in. Sometimes i am going for style and readability. I could've written verbatim the 40 minute conversation I had with my children - but it was dull.

Overwhelm is predominantly amongst social workers - they are leaving the profession at an alarming rate and there aren't enough flowing in the bottom end. I know this, because I have been an advocate for children and that included UAASCs. Places on the South Coast cannot cope with the surge in need, in much the same way that countries on the Mediterranean need help too. Conversations will have to take place indeed because there is currently no solution.

If you centralise people on what is essentially a floating city, you can get charities to provide direct medical and social care - you cannot dump everything in Margate and hope for the best. Cruise liners are not built to house people long term, but they are a good short term safe fix. I have more than one asylum seeker in my work caseload because they have come over, become homeless, suffered a full breakdown and unmedicated psychosis.

There are millions of empty properties indeed - and I'm hoping the incumbent Labour Government will refurb them. And no, I do think that refugees create crime and social unrest, but I do know that without careful documentation and safe routes they can disappear into wage-slavery and sex-slavery. I'd rather be sorting this out at source than letting people sort it out themelves, it's far too dangerous.

The UK had a good system for refugees and as you've said, many refugees want to come here to work and build a better life. For the most part they did exactly that... but I suspect they arrived into an existing community and this community helped them get sorted and set up. The same thing can happen, but we have to be very careful especially with children.

I don't think I could defend Euthanasia boats for the 70+ but I could give it a go.

Let's remember, I work as an advocate WITHIN but mostly AGAINST the only medical profession that does this - and today I threatened to instruct a barrister to take out a court injunction if we didn't go to the Court of Protection. Penguin's gotta Peng sometimes.

I don't think your Gran should've been put on a cruise ship either, in an ideal world we'd have enough social housing, services capable of welcoming everyone and adequate protections for people of all creeds, colours and abilities. But we don't. I'd prefer refugees not to have to get into boats and come here, and I'd prefer there to be safe migration and fewer wars but we're dealing with a current dystopian reality, not a utopian dreamscape.