Britain recently adopted a new plan to house refugees in a barge in the middle of the sea. The plan was fiercely opposed, not only by civil rights groups advocating for refugee rights, but also by the heart of the Conservative Party.
The government has proposed using the RAF military base in Lincolnshire to house thousands of refugees as a less expensive alternative to hotels costing the government around £6 million a day to house the 51,<> refugees now pending. Al Jazeera Net searched for experiences of detaining refugees in battleships, including what happened on board the "Bebe Stockholm" previously.