The more I think about this retired shipping container village thing the more I think a charity should be set up.

Difficult though. The bureaucratic obstacles would of course be boundless. The avenues for corruption enormous.

With a project as vast as transporting 8.500 empty containers from New York or Mumbai or wherever, to Djibouti or Mogadishu, the risk of failure would weigh heavily upon repaying charitable donors if it all went wrong.

I would have neither the experience nor the time to handle it. Hard enough as it is trying to keep the French government afloat with my taxes.

However the UN could do it, actually should do it, and for companies like Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd and Evergreen it would be a walk in the park.

A median sized container ship can hold 8,500 containers. Larger vessels can hold 15,000. The maximum is 24,000.

The cost (to the operator) of running an 8,500 container capacity vessel halfway around the world is about US$350,000. To this of course must be added port charges, at both ends, loading and unloading, along with of course, bribes to politicians and contrived, made up at the last moment, taxes. Add empty return trip and this rises to perhaps US$800,000, even US$1,000,000.

Still works out at under US$120 per container. Not bad, as three or four of them, arranged side by side or one on top of another, could make a habitable home for under US$500. Not exactly a two bed apartment in Knightsbridge at £3 million, but a waterproof and hygienic roof over a family of four's head nonetheless.

I am firing off my idea to Maersk and WHO and will wait and see who claims the idea as theirs. Then gets a gong for doing it.

Often happens to me but then that's my fault. For not being a Woke or a clueless, greenwashing environmentalist.

Think my ideas are stupid? People, especially Wokes, often do. So come up with a better idea then!!!

Or deafen me with silence. Again!