I have just found out where Mayor Cownie got this silly idea: where else but Godless Britain? It seems that there are around 210,000 children either officially homeless or sofa-surfing
* in England and some of them are now being housed in converted shipping containers.
The story is here -
- though I should
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I'm not sure what to make of the fact that these 'tainer-towns are located in Bristol, Cardiff and West London, all areas close to international airports. Bristol and Cardiff are also major shipping ports. An optimist might think this is for convenience of deportation.
* Whatever sofa-surfing is, it should be banned. Sofas are costly items and not for playing on. 