How can you cook meals in a shower?

[LaMarschallin]

Just that.

They're refusing what they describe as chips and nuggets. I wouldn't want to live on bland beige stuff every day either, and they have very little to do so why not cook? I'm not surprised it happens. There must be a way of allowing them to cook decent food in a proper kitchen, if the Home Office actually saw them as human.

The whole situation sounds nightmarish to be honest. Splitting a family into two hotels 200 miles apart, the father and baby in one and the mother and teenagers in another, is utterly insane and irresponsible.

Yes but you will get told that it’s everybody else’s fault. That they should be provided with a house that’s fully furnished and with a nice new kitchen to cook in. Or the hotel should be providing individually catered meals for all the people staying there. This will be additional to the £600 taxi fares paid for one person in the hotel to see a specialist regarding a knee issue. Although it’s claimed the people staying in the hotel are required to use taxis and not walk or take public transport? Maybe I am just very grumpy because my knee is very painful today but I am told nothing can be done about it. I pay for private physio to help it.

Oh dear God!
I did not start this thread to be all right wing and to be mean to people who have to live in hotels; it must be awful for them.
Radio 4 headlines said people were having to cook meals in a shower and I genuinely wondered how that was. I then read the article and realised what they meant.
How can I make people understand this? Read my posts, please 🙏

This.

The food provided will be the cheapest of crap to maximise profits.
A select few are making a fortune out of the current scenario.

@LaMarschallin well you are getting your arse handed to you whatever your reason for starting the thread. It’s not right wing to recognise the utter futility for everyone concerned of putting people in these hotels at the taxpayers expense. Also agree with @TheExcitersblowingupmymind someone somewhere is making a fortune from all this.

Having read your edited post I think you've now realised I hadn't read the article and had to edit your post.

I might be missing something here, but why can't the hotel ask them what foods would be acceptable and then make an effort to provide those? The hotel is being paid to cater for them and ought to provide a decent standard of food with some nod to its target recipients. Even food banks try to provide an element of choice for their users.

You're right, I am getting my arse handed to me. But I don't really care because I'm not interested in the opinions of people who can't understand what I meant. Goodness knows, I've explained why I started this thread enough.
The fact that I don’t agree with your views doesn't mean I don't sympathise with your poorly knee though and I hope you're better soon 💐

Why didn't you look for the article before starting a thread, @LaMarschallin ?

The man who had the £600 taxi pointed out that he thought it was outrageous and he wanted to go on the train which in his opinion would have been cheaper and more sensible, but if you aren’t allowed to work, you can’t buy a train ticket. If he was allowed to work he could pay taxes and buy his own train ticket.
My relative has worked with some of the children staying in these hotels and it was just as tragic as described about the sudden moves and families split up. They would get the kids into school, deal with horrific separation anxiety, ptsd, trauma etc, and then the kids would be ripped away from whatever community had been built, whatever relationships they had developed with teachers and other adults to go and live somewhere else, far from other members of their community, possibly family, other people who might even speak their language, and just begin again. It was just awful.
I have had an asylum hotel up the road from me for several years now and it’s never impacted me in any way.

Because I thought the headlines on Radio 4 were accurate and not a bit warped. I heard "People are having to cook things in a shower" and thought: "What now?"
Your advice would to be check everything I hear on BBC radio on the internet, would it? Or to buy every newspaper available to read every article?

PS It wasn't mentioned it came from an article so how would I know how to check it? It was reported as fact.

@LaMarschallin Thank you.

I've read the article. I don't expect they enjoyed having to travel hundreds of miles in a taxi with an injured knee. Or having to eat beige food for every meal, I'm not surprised they do this either. It's hardly the life of luxury in these hotels.

They are choosing to cook like this. The taxi thing is a disgrace.

It's hardly the life of luxury in these hotels.

These are people who are being fed and housed for free by a foreign country whose own citizens are struggling with a cost of living crisis..?

@LaMarschallin , I heard "People are having to cook things in a shower" and thought: "What now?"
It would have taken you moments to type 'refugees cooking meals in the shower', and you wouldn't have looked ignorant.

Your advice would to be check everything I hear on BBC radio on the internet, would it? Or to buy every newspaper available to read every article?
I'd recommend a quick 'google' before starting a thread.

My first thought if I read or heard a headline that I didn’t understand would be to read the article that was related to that headline (searching in their website if needed). Not come to an unrelated message board with a vague question that didn’t even reference where it came from.

Not their fault the system takes so long to process their applications. They are humans who deserve some compassion.

Yes. I’m fed up of hearing how awful it must be to be forced to live in a hotel (for free). No one is being forced to live in a hotel.

No, I'm sure it's horrible.
Just checking: did you see where I said I hadn't read the article before posting this thread? Anyway, if you hadn't read that (and I'm sure you're too busy to read everything on a thread on the internet) please let me point out that I hadn't read the article I had just listened to the headlines on Radio 4.
I will check out the headlines from now on.

Free food, housing, medical care etc for non-citizens isn't compassionate in your view?
Who is expecting seeking asylum to be a luxury experience?

It wasn’t warped. Headlines are just that, a headline. You need to listen or watch or read the programme or article for an explanation. But it seemed very obvious to me that they were using the shower as a place to do the cooking, not actually using the shower mechanism to cook with.

You've got a fair point there.
I just woke up, listened to the radio and thought "What now?"
Now I'll think "Ooh! There must be an article out there somewhere like the nice person on the internet advised and the headlines might be completely misleading"
See? You've done some good and stopped some randomer on the internet starting a thread that then gets completely misunderstood (however hard she tries to explain herself) ❤️

The hotel supplies meals, there is no need for people to cook in hotels, in showers or anywhere else. This is a BBC article feeding us their agenda.