For what it's worth, my few pennies worth.

I have previously complained about Sludge's blanket and over the top language for any one who doesn't share his outlook but it appears that this is tolerated, certainly not inhibited. Still if you call someone a dopey sod and then take umbrage that you get called a festering wart in response perhaps you should look for some skin thickening products on Amazon.

Similarly telling people to calm down before entering into angry polemics probably fits into the same box.

I think the use of the word "evil" should be saved for people like Lucy Letby or Vladimir Putin. We do seem to reach for hyperbole these days so that competent things become great passes or incredible saves.

I do think the government's actions around asylum seekers are callous and cynical though. Gesture actions aimed at appealing to its dwindling support coupled with attacks on opponents and institutions that stifle them massively trump any rational or collaborative alternatives. There are no voted in seeking collaborative participation in return policies that worked as a deterrent that pre-existed small boats when packing them off to Rwanda or telling them to f*ck off back to France grabs the headlines you want.

Under international convention, asylum seekers have a right to be housed. Providing the minimum necessary like the Bibby Stockholm also fits into the above. Taking a floating dormitory out of Italian mothballs at "warp speed" for "stop the boats week" trumped any sensible consideration or timescale of ensuring it was fit for human habitation. You make it sound like retrospectively rather than preemptively ensuring that you didn't make the occupants seriously ill or even dead was some kind of act of great compassion which shows this government's caring credentials rather than self-administered shit-show it became.

Finally compassion for the homeless and asylum seekers is not an either/or where you can trade off government inaction and failure in one area as justification for similar failures in others. Legal immigration last year, 90% of whom came from outside the EU was ten times higher than the number of asylum applications yet somehow asylum seekers are the reason why the homeless don't have a roof over their heads at night.