Border Force Flooded with Domino’s Pizza to Feed Channel Migrants
Staff at Domino’s Dover branch were swamped after hundreds of pizzas were ordered to feed migrants arriving in the UK via the Channel. The local team couldn’t keep up and had to send orders to other stores. Even Border Force vans were spotted collecting the mountains of pizza boxes, a shocked employee revealed.
Home Office Splashes Nearly £10k on Pizza for Migrants
Official records show the Home Office splurged over £6,700 in one month on Domino’s pizzas alone, with a source confirming the total has now hit nearly £10,000. Orders came through as UK Immigration Enforcement struggled to feed around 1,000 migrants held at Dover’s Tug Haven facility after long Channel crossings.
- Five separate pizza orders, each over £500, were made in just four weeks.
- The biggest single order cost £1,824 for feeding migrants stuck for over 12 hours at Tug Haven.
- Another order of 200 pizzas, worth £1,789, came from the Clandestine Operational Response Team (CORT).
Pizza Party Amid Migrant Chaos
Staff from as far as Liverpool have been called in to help at Dover, where the Border Force has officially declared the processing of 1,000 migrants a ‘critical incident’. Yet some of the food has gone uneaten, with boxes reportedly thrown on the floor.
A nearby lorry driver described the scene last night: “It sounded like a party, with people laughing and joking, all eating pizza.”
Conditions at Tug Haven Under Fire
The temporary holding centre at Tug Haven has faced heavy criticism. Last year, inspectors described it as a “rubble-strewn building site” where migrants often arrived “wet and cold” and waited “hours in cramped containers or out in the open air.”
“Just because numbers are unprecedented, that does not mean they are unpredictable, or cannot be planned for,” said former chief inspector of prisons Peter Clarke.
Despite the criticism, a Home Office spokesman insisted: “We are committed to delivering the best value for money for the British taxpayer. We ensure all spending is carefully scrutinised to make sure that every pound of taxpayers’ money is spent in the most effective way.”
