Weymouth & Portland Go The Full NIMBY Over Migrant Barge

I have just returned from a working holiday in Weymouth and Portand where the job was to sound out the local residents about the immigration ship there are just about to have parked on their shoreline.
Turns out that they are not crazy about it, not the idea of putting the asylum seekers on a ship, they are fine with that, they are against putting it in Weymouth and wheeled out the usual excuses of it would be better elsewhere because 'Weymouth is a tourist area'.
Despite turning up just as Storm Noa decided to arrive meaning it rained for the entire week, Weymouth is very touristy with it's fun fairs and sandy beaches and the people all seemed very friendly and only too happy to talk to a bunch of journalists, one man from a local cafe even arrived with a tray of tea and coffee's for us as we stood sheltering from the howling wind in the city centre which were gratefully received.
The barge, due to arrive 'shortly' will house 500 adult male migrants waiting for their asylum claims to be processed is the brainchild of the Government who are facing heat over housing 51,000 migrants in 400 hotels in the UK at a cost of £6m a day.
The local Conservative MP, Richard Drax, said that 'every action's being looked at, including a legal case' to stop the ship before it arrives and Dorset Council have expressed 'serious reservations about the suitability of Portland Port as a location' and 'Remain opposed to the proposals' although 500 people is a
drop in the Ocean with 51,000 migrants which is why the Government is in discussions with further vessels being parked in other ports around the UK.
The barge idea is in addition to hotels, not instead of them, and will cost £20,000 a day to charter, while the cost of berthing it in Portland would be more than £4,500 a day with additional costs for security, cleaning and catering.
On 31 December 2022, there were around 132,000 asylum applications awaiting an initial decision in the UK, comprising around 161,000 people and with only 4 applications being processed per week compared to 14 before the Conservative Party Civil Service austerity cuts, it isn't going to be a quick process and is a glaring symbol of not only the Government's failed asylum policy but their ideological austerity cuts and the people of Weymouth and Portland understood that and said they are not against the idea, they just went the full NIMBY and said put it on someone else's doorstep instead.