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AIBU to oppose housing 1,000 undocumented young men near Piddington?

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PiddingtonFan · 16/09/2026 09:38

We dont need anymore undocumented young males.

1000 proposed to be housed near Piddington. Young males from a different culture.

AIBU to agree with them. Enough undocumented males. Too many males overwhelming a small population. 😪

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FaceTips · 17/09/2026 13:00

shecanbe · 17/09/2026 08:28

No I'm not a 'leftie.' Didn't even vote Labour. Understanding that people are individuals, wherever they come from, does not mean you are a 'leftie.' This kind of comeback is so boring and predictable.

I'm just saying, if people went and actually talked to these migrants they could find out for themselves 'what their intentions are.' Rather than this stereotyping and hysteria that 'they are all' this or that. Find out for yourselves. Don't just mindlessly swallow the current insidious media agenda. It's largely a distraction.

Imagine being a decent asylum seeker. Someone who has been through hell and wants a new life. Someone who wants to work and be part of a new community. Someone who is not violent and who respects women. They exist. I have worked with them and heard their awful stories. Genuine people. Some who helped the UK forces in places like Afghanistan.

All being tarred with the same brush here by people who wish to stereotype 1000 men as all being exactly the same. Predictable but disappointing.

Switchnow · 17/09/2026 13:07

AlphaQueue · 17/09/2026 12:53

I'm just saying why it happened. If someone was interrupting a speech I was giving at a conference or event or talk I'd not be happy and I'd want security to forcefully remove them.

Of course, you’re simply explaining the circumstances in which it’s ok to assault women. When they ‘cause a ruckus.’ Or interrupt a speech you’re giving.

There’s a world of difference between security removing someone and random members of the public assaulting them.

Netcurtainnelly · 17/09/2026 13:07

PiddingtonFan · 16/09/2026 09:38

We dont need anymore undocumented young males.

1000 proposed to be housed near Piddington. Young males from a different culture.

AIBU to agree with them. Enough undocumented males. Too many males overwhelming a small population. 😪

Not your not.
Yanbu.

Switchnow · 17/09/2026 13:09

FreshJalapenos · 17/09/2026 12:35

Yeah sure that’s what’s happening.

And yet on the meantime so many rape women while waiting for their wives. Large groups of men being dropped into small areas are not safe in any situation. I’m not bothered about looking politically correct, I’m thinking of the safety of me and my DD and other women and girls

Where is your evidence for this claim ‘so many rape women while waiting for their wives’?

BIossomtoes · 17/09/2026 13:12

FreshJalapenos · 17/09/2026 12:35

Yeah sure that’s what’s happening.

And yet on the meantime so many rape women while waiting for their wives. Large groups of men being dropped into small areas are not safe in any situation. I’m not bothered about looking politically correct, I’m thinking of the safety of me and my DD and other women and girls

Yes, it what’s happening. Why do you think migratory patterns have magically changed. They haven’t.

AlphaQueue · 17/09/2026 13:13

Switchnow · 17/09/2026 12:35

Of course it is, but the leaflets are provided in both cases in the full knowledge that not everyone needs the advice.

Sure, that’s an approach. And to never had to it you’d need to also prevent any men or boys coming to work or study or holiday too. Wanna do that?

Yes

BIossomtoes · 17/09/2026 13:16

AlphaQueue · 17/09/2026 13:13

Yes

🙄

EasternStandard · 17/09/2026 13:21

FaceTips · 17/09/2026 13:00

Imagine being a decent asylum seeker. Someone who has been through hell and wants a new life. Someone who wants to work and be part of a new community. Someone who is not violent and who respects women. They exist. I have worked with them and heard their awful stories. Genuine people. Some who helped the UK forces in places like Afghanistan.

All being tarred with the same brush here by people who wish to stereotype 1000 men as all being exactly the same. Predictable but disappointing.

79% yanbu, 21% yabu. You could have a better outcome if the people you want to welcome were near the latter. Some feel there’s risk, others think there’s none.

Put accommodation nearby to those who think there’s none.

AlphaQueue · 17/09/2026 13:21

FaceTips · 17/09/2026 13:00

Imagine being a decent asylum seeker. Someone who has been through hell and wants a new life. Someone who wants to work and be part of a new community. Someone who is not violent and who respects women. They exist. I have worked with them and heard their awful stories. Genuine people. Some who helped the UK forces in places like Afghanistan.

All being tarred with the same brush here by people who wish to stereotype 1000 men as all being exactly the same. Predictable but disappointing.

Why do they feel the need to cross the channel and escape the safe nation of France?

Lugol · 17/09/2026 13:22

Newname26 · 17/09/2026 07:41

Your right nobody wants these people living beside them.
But middle classes are more likely to vote than working classes.

The middle classes need to stop being turkeys voting for Christmas thinking its just the other turkeys that will suffer.

I'm middle class and I don't want them near me and I don't want them near my DD either.

I've already been approached by one man in an Asda carpark and he was pretty intimidating and having run city centre bars before I'm not someone who rattles easily.

By middle class do you mean Left leaning? Because that's just more divide and conquer bullshit we are all being fed.

Lugol · 17/09/2026 13:27

I'm trying not to read the news at the moment because there is nothing positive and it's just more depressing programming but can someone please tell me if the Government has actually responded to the people of Piddington yet?

Has there been any response to the heartwarming children's letters?

Have any of the women MPs responded to the women of Piddington?

LakieLady · 17/09/2026 13:28

Hoardasurass · 16/09/2026 10:30

They are not refugees nor true asylum seekers, they are infact economic migrants who have travelled through multiple safe countries before arriving in the UK.
Where would I house these men why thats simple id return them to their own countries on arrival so no asylum claims, no housing or free NHS treatment just take them off the boats check their id where possible with fingerprints etc and where not genetic ancestry and strontium isotope test and then fly them back to their country of origin.
The worst thing starmer did was revoke the immigration act that prevented these men from claiming asylum.

Which Act was that please?

Its repeal obviously flew under my radar, I don't recall it at all.

BIossomtoes · 17/09/2026 13:31

Lugol · 17/09/2026 13:22

I'm middle class and I don't want them near me and I don't want them near my DD either.

I've already been approached by one man in an Asda carpark and he was pretty intimidating and having run city centre bars before I'm not someone who rattles easily.

By middle class do you mean Left leaning? Because that's just more divide and conquer bullshit we are all being fed.

I was abused in Tesco’s car park a few months ago - by a nasty piece of work who was as British as I am.

hedgeknight · 17/09/2026 13:32

Lugol · 17/09/2026 13:27

I'm trying not to read the news at the moment because there is nothing positive and it's just more depressing programming but can someone please tell me if the Government has actually responded to the people of Piddington yet?

Has there been any response to the heartwarming children's letters?

Have any of the women MPs responded to the women of Piddington?

Farage responded to a woman's fear about racism aimed at her husband and children with laughing at her.

LuckyHazelFox · 17/09/2026 13:33

Lugol · 17/09/2026 13:27

I'm trying not to read the news at the moment because there is nothing positive and it's just more depressing programming but can someone please tell me if the Government has actually responded to the people of Piddington yet?

Has there been any response to the heartwarming children's letters?

Have any of the women MPs responded to the women of Piddington?

The women have had no direct response from the government about their outlined concerns. Burnham has said that while he recognises their worries, it's only fair that everyone takes their share of these men. If only there was a way for the supporters to put themselves forward to personally house them. So sure they are that they're more in danger of the men already in their homes, I don't see the problem.

As an aside, why does the fascist gatecrasher at the Reform conference keep being brought up on these threads?

EasternStandard · 17/09/2026 13:34

Lugol · 17/09/2026 13:22

I'm middle class and I don't want them near me and I don't want them near my DD either.

I've already been approached by one man in an Asda carpark and he was pretty intimidating and having run city centre bars before I'm not someone who rattles easily.

By middle class do you mean Left leaning? Because that's just more divide and conquer bullshit we are all being fed.

Most middle class would probably do as Piddington women have, if in the same position.

BIossomtoes · 17/09/2026 13:37

hedgeknight · 17/09/2026 13:32

Farage responded to a woman's fear about racism aimed at her husband and children with laughing at her.

Exactly but I expect she’s the wrong kind of Piddington woman.

As an aside, why does the fascist gatecrasher at the Reform conference keep being brought up on these threads?

She wasn’t a gatecrasher she had a ticket and she wouldn’t have been protesting if she was a fascist, she’d have been right at home. It seems violence against women is perfectly OK if old, white men are the perpetrators.

Newname26 · 17/09/2026 13:38

Lugol · 17/09/2026 13:22

I'm middle class and I don't want them near me and I don't want them near my DD either.

I've already been approached by one man in an Asda carpark and he was pretty intimidating and having run city centre bars before I'm not someone who rattles easily.

By middle class do you mean Left leaning? Because that's just more divide and conquer bullshit we are all being fed.

Middle class, the people who vote, and live in ££££ areas and think they'll not have these men on their doorstep.

Nobody wants them on their doorstep. People in city's have enough issues without importing issues.

The government needs to stop treating them with kid gloves and listening to sob stories. They are here illegally - there's the plane - Goodbye

LuckyHazelFox · 17/09/2026 13:38

That's not the version I saw. The fascist pretends to vote Reform so she can stand up and shout at them midway through a conference. Also totally irrelevant to this thread.

AlphaQueue · 17/09/2026 13:39

BIossomtoes · 17/09/2026 13:31

I was abused in Tesco’s car park a few months ago - by a nasty piece of work who was as British as I am.

Okay? And? No need to import more men from foreign nations that have no respect for women.

AlphaQueue · 17/09/2026 13:41

BIossomtoes · 17/09/2026 13:37

Exactly but I expect she’s the wrong kind of Piddington woman.

As an aside, why does the fascist gatecrasher at the Reform conference keep being brought up on these threads?

She wasn’t a gatecrasher she had a ticket and she wouldn’t have been protesting if she was a fascist, she’d have been right at home. It seems violence against women is perfectly OK if old, white men are the perpetrators.

She had a ticket. And then broke the rules of the conference and disrupted. She then was a trespasser and removed.

Switchnow · 17/09/2026 13:42

AlphaQueue · 17/09/2026 13:13

Yes

So you think some women deserve to be assaulted, and you want to ban any people from entering the country. Congratulations, you’ve also got something in common with North Korea too!

EasternStandard · 17/09/2026 13:42

Newname26 · 17/09/2026 13:38

Middle class, the people who vote, and live in ££££ areas and think they'll not have these men on their doorstep.

Nobody wants them on their doorstep. People in city's have enough issues without importing issues.

The government needs to stop treating them with kid gloves and listening to sob stories. They are here illegally - there's the plane - Goodbye

Yes it’s generally someone else’s problem. I’m happy for those who see no risk and object to the no thanks to step in and have the men near to them.

LuckyHazelFox · 17/09/2026 13:42

AlphaQueue · 17/09/2026 13:41

She had a ticket. And then broke the rules of the conference and disrupted. She then was a trespasser and removed.

So she had a ticket for a party she's meant to support and then just decided to stop supporting them at the conference, we are led to believe. Hmmm. Anyway, as I said, I don't see how she's relevant here.

LakieLady · 17/09/2026 13:43

Cheese55 · 16/09/2026 10:51

Has crowborough reported any problems with their new residents?

According to a former colleague who lives there, the biggest problem is the anti-migrant protest marches that bugger up the traffic through the town centre every sodding Sunday.

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