Illegal Immigrants In Hotels

[Goldengirl123]

What are your thoughts?

Are they compulsory bookings then?
I assumed they bid for the business. My view of the tories was they creste an issue to profit from it.

Twas ever thus.

My grandad, and later my uncle, went to London from Dublin to get work as plasterers when there wasn't work or money in Ireland. My grandad drank a fair amount of it and sent the rest back to my gran and her 4 children when he remembered to do so.

Probably because there are countless threads on this topic already, and it feels like you’re just trying to incite a bit of daily mail rage by asking something like this without any context of your own.

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Where do you think they should live whilst they wait for their claim to be processed? It’s not their fault successive governments haven’t put a quick enough process in place.

Plenty of children, wives, sisters, mums and grandma’s seeking asylum round by me. Housed in a local old student halls before being processed within 2-4 weeks. Absolutely no bother from them. Plenty of problems with the local British druggies and alcoholics fighting and leaving drug paraphernalia in the bushes at the park.
How do you feel about Ukrainian refugees OP? Or are they ok because they’re white/non Muslim?

Were there no homeless people here before asylum seekers got put in hotels? Where was your concern and sadness then?

I often wonder this too. Over 70% of asylum seekers are men. How safe are all the women and children they have left behind?

I welcome the Ukrainians as they are women & children fleeing the war. Not because of their religion or colour!!!

Would you like to see a grandma holding a toddler on a dinghy? I agree it’s a mess and it needs to stop, but at least I’m glad they’re mostly young men coming. I don’t want to hear of any more children drowning.

sadly that's not the reality, there have been closures of thousands of beds from hospitals, hostel, mental health units, long stay units, convalescence homes, carehomes, prisons, young people's accommodation, refuges. Plusa reduction in all the staff working with the homeless. It's not unreasonable to suggest they are all offered safe accommodation and food.

Yea sure.

I don’t believe you work with the homeless, or you would know that giving them a flat/hotel room without addressing any of their complex needs just doesn’t work. You’re setting them up to fail.

@Simonjt there are whole teams of outreach workers dedicated to finding, supporting and housing the street homeless. Most have a bed in a hostel, paid for by housing benefit to sleep in each night. This narrative that people are homeless and starving on the streets isn’t actually true. The main reasons you see people begging, sleeping rough? Mental illness health and drug and alcohol addiction, not because there isn’t hostel beds for them. Also even if someone is in a hostel (often with meals provided and private room with an en suite) they are still recorded as homeless in statistics, as is anyone in temporary accommodation.

That's not down to asylum seekers.

There were plenty male Ukrainian refugees at the support centre I volunteered at.

As you find homelessness sad, how are you helping the local homeless population?

No of course not but they are bring left behind in unsafe countries so how is that any more acceptable, young fit men shouldn't be drowning either, it's completecshitshiw.

I didn’t say I work with the homeless. I said I do charity work for the homeless. I do fund raising events completely on my own and I donate all of the money raised!

I also do this for several other charities

My thoughts do asylum seekers in hotels?

i wish the Tory’s hadn’t decided to stop processing claims as a political point and either processed and allowed them to work and pay taxes as they want or returned if they are one of the few ingenuine claimants.

I wish as an electorate people weren’t so genuinely thick they think enough people to fill 1/3 of Wembley stadium in hotels is the real reason our country is in economic crisis.

more importantly I hope to god I’m never in the situation whereby risking my life at sea with my life savings isn’t the best option I have for a future.

Would you like a dog whistle with that ?

Or a spare room?

I don’t understand why I am being attacked . I asked for people’s views. I gave mine and I have said nothing negative about anyone’s else’s

My father in law also went to the UK to work, it was hard. He sent his money home, did some really difficult jobs and put up with a lot of anti Irish racism. It was a lonely and isolating thing, I'm sure it still is.

@Goldengirl123 do you maybe support the Ukrainian ones more because their skin colour is the same as yours? I think we all know that the answer is

Most of the hotels being used were already in financial difficulty and run down.

Some were already on the market and were brought by people who could get government contracts including the refurb fee.

Don’t kid yourself these are huge chain hotels who already run a huge profit margin and continue to do so.