To ask if you think the prime minister has a democratic duty to house asylum seekers in middle class areas

He's a fabian. That's not his plan. Fabians come in two types. Well meaning but thick, or very darkly sinister. Every Labour prime minister ever has been a Fabian.

You really have no idea. I live in a poorer area of London and I've seen it all - been doing some work in Ilford, ffs! I can't get bothered by Whitechapel or Stratford. I'm fine with these places and feel comfortable. This was on another level. I did not feel unsafe - but it was still awful. Like a very crowded poor African refugee camp/ village transplanted onto a Paris street.

Like the one at Euston I posted upthread

My daughter is supposed to be going there with the school next year. I’m honestly considering not sending her because of this. She’s only 9, and I’m not sure how comfortable I feel sending her there.

The fact that this doesn’t seem to have even crossed Burnham’s mind is very revealing. He does not get it at all.
Sure it is a longterm investment hmo scheme. It won’t be a problem for the government. It’s not like they’ll run out of tenants, cheaper than a hotel, put 7 single men in.

I think you need to make your satire a little less obvious.

Oops…quote fail.

It was one of DebbieSavage’s posts.

It's really not a town, it's barely a village. Just a smattering of houses off the main road, halfway between a very beautiful National Trust village, and a very small town with a dogs' home, a burnt-out hotel, and not a lot else. It's also right in The Chilterns and is proper walking/cycling country, so there may be a lot of unhappy people if they suddenly find groups of men loitering in the fields when they're going for a hike, or in West Wycombe when they go sightseeing. But it could be true that a large proportion of these people may be the 'welcome refugees' type, so possibly it's no bad thing. There may not be a large opposition though as there really isn't much of anywhere around where a crowd might come from; people are more likely to just find new places to walk, and new NT villages to wander round. Poor Piddington, and poor West Wycombe.

Whilst I haven't been to Paris for a while, I'm imagining the area described around the Gare du Nord might be similar to the encampments set up around Park Lane, with delightful odours of piss and shit wafting towards the capital's up market hotels, intensified right now by the heat. Incidentally, the deranged woman who stabbed random men with scissors in Covent Garden was allegedly from this community. I know these pop up tent city was cleared before, after a while, but just why is there again? or do we suffer from such a malaise now that nothing can be done when these illegal tent communities just roll up and park themselves.

They're not tackling the issue because they're facilitating it. They actively want this. They want us to be frightened, hurt and terrorised. Our governments are doing this to us!

Always been a flat piss smelling and boring city. With dirty water running down the streets in a futile attempt to clean (how about trying sweeping, no?)

Anyone remember when people used to say that unironically?

Have you seen the amount of homeless addicted people there are in society, streets once full of shoppers are full of vape shops, chippers, and homeless addicts, zombies.
It’s already happening.

I think it could be and if it is he’s a very smart man indeed.

Even some of his own party’s MPs have changed their tune - previously very ‘refugees welcome’ but now opposed to having 1000+ men in their areas.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2238080/london-euston-road-migrant-tent-city
Has anyone been to Euston recently?
If nothing else, it's a public health issue.
Camden Council seem unable to act.

I have an easy solution. Pull the plug on the hotels, the benefits, the phones, the days out, the cooking lessons, etc etc . Problem is its being made too attractive to come here and live off the British people.
I foresee unrest in a very big way if it carries on unabated

We don't need their approval. Although sadly I think it's too late to pull this back.

The problem with it is that housing in middle class areas is more expensive. More money for the taxpayer.

The fact that this doesn’t seem to have even crossed Burnham’s mind is very revealing. He does not get it at all.

Discontent regarding the housing of these unwanted, and often dangerous young men (bunch of young Afghans arrested recently for running a grooming gang all came into the country this way and claimed asylum) arriving almost daily has escalated very quickly this summer, and now he wants us to pay even more!?

Believe me, this did not look like a recent thing.

Good. This is what we need.
It has been said, when the problem starts to impact the middle classes, the highly educated, then there will be changes implemented.
Maybe that’s his plan?

Nimbyism at it’s most blatant

Paris is long since gone. I wouldn't go there again and I loved that city.

Like I said, I have been to France 20 years ago and it was a shit show even then - dirt, mess, piss. people living on the street, women lying on the pavement face down begging.

I hope we have less tolerance for this.

Amazing isn’t it? It’s almost like it’s a really important issue which will affect our children’s lives more than any other or something.

I haven’t seen this but is this what some pp have in mind when they say we have the space and they couldn’t care less.