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Why do Labour not get it?

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Dacatspjs · 28/10/2025 12:30

It's being reported today that Labour want to stop using hotels and move migrants into barracks. Fine. But when quizzed on it Luke Pollard has suggested this will be more expensive, but the public want the hotels to close at all costs so it will be worth it.

This to me just seems like another step forward for Reform. The public who care about this, care about how much the government is spending on migrant housing. A new policy that costs more isn't going to go anyway towards solving this problem.

I don't know what the solution is, but spending more money getting mothballed barracks up to spec seems ludicrous.

"Asked about whether it would cost more to house migrants at military bases than in hotels, Mr Pollard insisted that 'the public want to see those hotels close'.

But he added: 'We're looking at what's possible and, in some cases, those bases may be a different cost to hotels, but I think we need to reflect the public mood on this asylum hotels need to close.'"

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Julen7 · 28/10/2025 15:57

DuncinToffee · 28/10/2025 15:29

So you don't want to pay for their upkeep. Who do you think should pay?

Charities, the ones encouraging them to come can pay. Most of the rest of us have had enough.

Whammyammy · 28/10/2025 15:55

24karatPalamino · 28/10/2025 15:33

It could be an optional extra tax. We could call it the ‘morally superior person tax’. I won’t be signing up for it, but you could.

Love that idea.
Also, I'm.out 😁

AllTheseYears · 28/10/2025 15:49

NoSpanielSympathy · 28/10/2025 15:39

This is totally incorrect! I stay in a lot of UK hotels for work and these are generally 4 hotels with swimming pools and restaurants, at £100-200 a night. Business hotels, basically. Over the past 5-6 years, I’ve seen numerous hotels house refugees. Security guards, social workers, and translators are common. These are *cushy hotels by most people’s terms.

The things that make them 4 star are the pools, spas etc and they don’t have use of these. So it’s just a bed in a basic room.

NoSpanielSympathy · 28/10/2025 15:39

aslkdfjh · 28/10/2025 12:35

The hotels are not ‘cushy’ but currently the public appears to falling for the bullshit that asylum seekers are living it up in 4* hotels with all the trappings.

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This is totally incorrect! I stay in a lot of UK hotels for work and these are generally 4 hotels with swimming pools and restaurants, at £100-200 a night. Business hotels, basically. Over the past 5-6 years, I’ve seen numerous hotels house refugees. Security guards, social workers, and translators are common. These are *cushy hotels by most people’s terms.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 28/10/2025 15:33

DuncinToffee · 28/10/2025 15:29

So you don't want to pay for their upkeep. Who do you think should pay?

You?

24karatPalamino · 28/10/2025 15:33

It could be an optional extra tax. We could call it the ‘morally superior person tax’. I won’t be signing up for it, but you could.

24karatPalamino · 28/10/2025 15:32

DuncinToffee · 28/10/2025 15:29

So you don't want to pay for their upkeep. Who do you think should pay?

The charities who persist in encouraging them to come over. The human rights lawyers who fight to keep them here after their asylum claims have failed and the caring British person who thinks that the rest of the world has a right to come to the UK and live off tax payer money.

DuncinToffee · 28/10/2025 15:29

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 28/10/2025 15:23

Let's unravel this, shall we?

Just because you might be paying some towards the upkeep of the people you don't want to shelter in your home, doesn't mean you are not happy to other to pay as well, even though they might not share your opinion.

As for the BIG question Grin, I don't think there is any dehumanising going on. Or scapegoating.

I see young men who are happily using the accommodation and services provided for them. Even though I'm sure they would welcome a few home cooked meals and the comfort of a cat or seven.

So you don't want to pay for their upkeep. Who do you think should pay?

CorneliaCupp · 28/10/2025 15:29

EasternStandard · 28/10/2025 15:25

The list is not rigorous at all for many people. Asylum is not refused if nothing comes up. It still doesn’t mean they haven’t committed a horrendous crime before arriving.

It isn’t rigorous process at all. It’s full of gaps.

I am no expert on this, and I agree that the system is not foolproof. My point was that I don't agree with locking people up when we can't prove they have committed a crime.
How would you make the system less gappy? Genuinely interested.

Icecreamandcoffee · 28/10/2025 15:26

EasternStandard · 28/10/2025 15:18

You can’t stop people going in and out nor stop them accessing facilities.

You can't no. But there isn't much reason to leave. The one i know is surrounded for miles by fields. There is no public transport. There are facilities (old RAF site) on site. It has a canteen, the old gym from RAF days. Healthcare could be provided there.

Many concerns come from the wandering around town. Men following teenage, pre-teen girls and women and behaving inappropriately towards them. Seemingly adult males trying to access the school system and using it to behave inappropriately towards young girls. There have been attempted and successful rapes and attacks on women by males housed in hotels. At least in military barracks, away from the public with only fields and no public transport, with guards checking them in and out, our girls and women would be protected.

24karatPalamino · 28/10/2025 15:26

Whammyammy · 28/10/2025 15:00

Looks like another stabbing,3 people stabbed, one dead. Afghanistan national tased and arrested on suspicion of murder.
Anyone willing to defend this?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ypkd57n97o.amp

Apparently it’s a case of at least he didn’t have to be detained whilst we found out more about this person.

Not having them detained appears more important than outcomes like this.

EasternStandard · 28/10/2025 15:25

CorneliaCupp · 28/10/2025 15:22

I agree that a criminal from Afghanistan is unlikely to be identified as one by asking the Taliban, and that that information is unlikely to be trustworthy if it is recieved.
That is precisely why the home office use many other forms of evidence in order to corroborate a person's claim. If they do not feel they have sufficient evidence to suggest that a person is eligible for asylum, then their claim is refused.
Is it a perfect system? Far from it. But I don't think the fact that we cannot 100% guarantee that someone is not a criminal means that they should be locked up.

The list is not rigorous at all for many people. Asylum is not refused if nothing comes up. It still doesn’t mean they haven’t committed a horrendous crime before arriving.

It isn’t rigorous process at all. It’s full of gaps.

DuncinToffee · 28/10/2025 15:24

Whammyammy · 28/10/2025 15:17

I'm happy that the bill for migrant housing falls to the tax payers. Just not hotels. Standard basic accommodation only should be provided.

I agree that hotels should not be used. Serco, Mears and Clearsprings might think differently, lucrative cntracts and big profits.

The shared hotel rooms are standard basic accommodation

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 28/10/2025 15:23

DuncinToffee · 28/10/2025 15:03

So why did you say that then? It was very much a statement.

Deflection from my other question?

Let's unravel this, shall we?

Just because you might be paying some towards the upkeep of the people you don't want to shelter in your home, doesn't mean you are not happy to other to pay as well, even though they might not share your opinion.

As for the BIG question Grin, I don't think there is any dehumanising going on. Or scapegoating.

I see young men who are happily using the accommodation and services provided for them. Even though I'm sure they would welcome a few home cooked meals and the comfort of a cat or seven.

CorneliaCupp · 28/10/2025 15:22

EasternStandard · 28/10/2025 15:16

The checks won’t include a criminal from Afghanistan. There will be many who commit horrendous crimes who do not end up on what you’ve listed. They also could have no ID at all.

Can you see that?

I agree that a criminal from Afghanistan is unlikely to be identified as one by asking the Taliban, and that that information is unlikely to be trustworthy if it is recieved.
That is precisely why the home office use many other forms of evidence in order to corroborate a person's claim. If they do not feel they have sufficient evidence to suggest that a person is eligible for asylum, then their claim is refused.
Is it a perfect system? Far from it. But I don't think the fact that we cannot 100% guarantee that someone is not a criminal means that they should be locked up.

Winteriscoming80 · 28/10/2025 15:18

We should do what other countries do,put them in tents ,they won’t come over then

EasternStandard · 28/10/2025 15:18

Icecreamandcoffee · 28/10/2025 15:14

I can see why barracks would be a good idea. Most abandoned barracks are in the middle of nowhere so not really near any existing communities. I once visited one of the barracks which was been used as part of an exhibition on the military as part of work. Despite been somewhat "abandoned" as a MOD facility it still had armed guards at the gate and checks in and out of the site.

Many people in the country are not happy. Labour need to do something as Reform are doing well. If Labour don't do something soon, it won't just be reform that get a voice in the mainstream, more extreme right wing groups (EDL/ BNP) will start to also get a voice. Something we always overlook - Hitler didn't come to power out of no-where. There was public support for him and his policies. He had a huge propaganda machine with him.

Whilst ever legitimate concerns about immigration/ use of hotels are swept under the carpet as and described "right wing and extreme right wing" it softens the definition of " extreme right wing". People start to think "right wing" or having "extreme right wing views" means concerned for their communities and speaking out against unchecked and out of control migration. Rather than actual far right wing and extreme right wing that in some cases advocates for eugenics and forced sterilisation programs, dehumanisation of certain races ect. It is so important that the terminology "extreme right wing" doesn't not become softened.

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You can’t stop people going in and out nor stop them accessing facilities.

Whammyammy · 28/10/2025 15:17

DuncinToffee · 28/10/2025 15:13

Do you want to answer the question about the scapegoating and dehumanising of asylum seekers?

Why do you think the UK shouldn't pay for asylum seekers? And who should instead? Or do you think they should live on the streets?

I'm happy that the bill for migrant housing falls to the tax payers. Just not hotels. Standard basic accommodation only should be provided.

EasternStandard · 28/10/2025 15:16

CorneliaCupp · 28/10/2025 15:14

Won't include what? Sorry, I'm not understanding your question.

The checks won’t include a criminal from Afghanistan. There will be many who commit horrendous crimes who do not end up on what you’ve listed. They also could have no ID at all.

Can you see that?

DuncinToffee · 28/10/2025 15:16

sunflower1022 · 28/10/2025 15:16

While being all virtuous and oh so kind.

Is that aimed at me?

sunflower1022 · 28/10/2025 15:16

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 28/10/2025 14:33

No space you say?

But of course not.

You are happy for others to pay for your principles.

While being all virtuous and oh so kind.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 28/10/2025 15:15

PandoraSocks · 28/10/2025 14:58

IIRC you support the NHS. Presumably you have an A&E unit set up in your living room?

Yes, it's exactly the same.

Because there are thousands of homeless consultants roaming the streets and the NHS are looking to rent people's garages to accommodate any MRI equipment that's going spare.

Katiesaidthat · 28/10/2025 15:15

CorneliaCupp · 28/10/2025 14:38

When someone arrives in the UK and claims asylum (usually at the port of entry or at the Asylum Screening Unit in Croydon), they first have a screening interview with the Home Office.

During this stage:

  • Their personal details are taken (name, date of birth, nationality, family members, etc.).
  • Biometric data (fingerprints and a digital photo) are taken.
They’re asked how they arrived in the UK and why they’re claiming asylum. -Documents such as passports, ID cards, or travel documents are checked.
  • They’re asked whether they’ve claimed asylum in another country (to check under the Dublin III Regulation or post-Brexit arrangements).
The Home Office runs the person’s information through several databases, including UK police and immigration databases, Interpol and Europol databases.

These checks look for:

  • Criminal history
  • National security risks (e.g., terrorism links)
  • Immigration violations or previous asylum claims elsewhere

After the initial checks, asylum seekers are invited to a substantive interview — a detailed discussion with a Home Office caseworker about their asylum claim.

In this interview, the applicant explains:

  • Why they left their country
  • What risks they face if they return
  • Any evidence supporting their claim (documents, witness statements, etc.)

The caseworker assesses credibility, consistency, and supporting evidence

Hmmm and what about those who threw their documents into the sea and those whose "personal details" are nothing but fiction.

Icecreamandcoffee · 28/10/2025 15:14

I can see why barracks would be a good idea. Most abandoned barracks are in the middle of nowhere so not really near any existing communities. I once visited one of the barracks which was been used as part of an exhibition on the military as part of work. Despite been somewhat "abandoned" as a MOD facility it still had armed guards at the gate and checks in and out of the site.

Many people in the country are not happy. Labour need to do something as Reform are doing well. If Labour don't do something soon, it won't just be reform that get a voice in the mainstream, more extreme right wing groups (EDL/ BNP) will start to also get a voice. Something we always overlook - Hitler didn't come to power out of no-where. There was public support for him and his policies. He had a huge propaganda machine with him.

Whilst ever legitimate concerns about immigration/ use of hotels are swept under the carpet as and described "right wing and extreme right wing" it softens the definition of " extreme right wing". People start to think "right wing" or having "extreme right wing views" means concerned for their communities and speaking out against unchecked and out of control migration. Rather than actual far right wing and extreme right wing that in some cases advocates for eugenics and forced sterilisation programs, dehumanisation of certain races ect. It is so important that the terminology "extreme right wing" doesn't not become softened.

CorneliaCupp · 28/10/2025 15:14

EasternStandard · 28/10/2025 15:14

The checks you listed won’t include them, you can see that?

Won't include what? Sorry, I'm not understanding your question.

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