Butlins Albania?

New Italian migrant camps

Italy is building two new purpose-built camps in Albania, at Shengjin and Gjader, to act as processing centres for migrants.

The Italians deny the camps are Albanian Guantanamos. For a start, the campers have not been rendered in, won't be kept in chains and don't have to wear orange.

Although much of the accommodation and facilities look better than that experienced by The Huggetts in the late 1940s/early 1950s, and certainly better than UK state boarding schools in the 1970s, it's true that there are 4 people to a chalet rather than just 2, which was typical of UK holiday camps in the past.

The new camps, which also include their own mini-penitentary blocks and 40 CCTV cameras to keep an eye on those saucy campers, are nowhere near as attractive as Butlins at Bognor, Minehead or Skegness but better than an open boat or a hulk moored off Weymouth.

Campers will be provided with their own special Albanian entertainment program consisting of constant reruns of Norman Wisdom films.

If that doesn't encourage them to return home then nothing will.

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