How can you cook meals in a shower?

[LaMarschallin]

Just that.

You’d be grateful for the cheapest of cheap UPF to feed you and your children every day for the years it takes them to get through the asylum system? I’d also guess you’d be grateful to have 5 people living across 2 hotel rooms with no communal space for the kids to play? And £10/week to pay for everything you might need other than food and shelter? And know you could be moved at any point, anywhere the government sees fit, whether you have community links or not - a mum being moved 200 miles away from her baby?

It’s worth remembering these people didn’t choose to live in dangerous countries, didn’t choose how the asylum system works here, most would rather work, pay into the system and have a life.

And what has made you decide to call me ' 'stupid' @LaMarschallin ?

It’s worth remembering these people didn’t choose to live in dangerous countries, didn’t choose how the asylum system works here, most would rather work, pay into the system and have a life.

They chose to come here, be housed, schooled, fed and have medical care all paid for by us.

What would you choose to do in their situation?

Ahh but then you wouldn’t be able to start an enormous bunfight about asylum seekers and to maintain your faux innocence throughout, if you went and did that.

Presumably you’ve never had to make the choice to leave your home and everything in it due to war, civil disruption or persecution. How lucky you are.

This must contravene their health and safety regulations and would probably invalidate their insurance, making it even more dangerous for the people living there.

Nothing! I didn't call you personally 'stupid' and I apologise if you thought I somehow did.
I just thought it was against MN"S rules to give out information about other posters. Obviously @GloriaMonday was defending you so I made a silly joke.
I thought you'd get it but I was wrong.- so sorry 😞

No other country would let me in without documentation and offer me what we are providing to illegal migrants/refugees in Britain.

You'd better believe I'd come here!

Is that what you think I did?
When I've spent a lot of time explaining my mistake?
"faux innocence": does that mean you're calling me a liar?
Harsh.

Did you all miss that this family gave been here for 10 years.......10 years! They are on their third appeal having been rejected twice already. This is the issue. The amount spent on them must be hundreds of thousands. It's ridiculous.

'An electric cable, covered in thick insulating tape, has been extended into the bathroom. Behind the door, Mira is crouching over a small cooker in the shower tray. Pans are precariously placed on a hob and she is stirring away.
As a pan full of oil starts to spit, I worry about the smoke alarm, but I needn't bother. The sensor in the room has been sealed tight with plastic bags.'

The article explains it. ^

I worked in a hotel once and some guests cooked food in the kettles. Pasta, eggs etc.. Quite ingenious, really.

This. And the other big issue is that, yet again, all the money that is being spent on this is going on making the owners of a load of run down dumps of hotels billionaires.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/the-400-million-asylum-king-who-owns-the-britannia-hotel-and-17-other-migrant-hotels/ar-AA1KTkRp?cvid=07956c2356df4ec49e021354f093d214

The right wing rags go on about how refugees are being housed in 'luxury 4 star hotels' but these are the same hotels that have had endless reviews as dirty, tatty dumps on Trip Advisor for years.

So instead of investing in the hotels they've taken contracts from the government to exploit desperate people who've risked their lives to come here.

The people staying in the hotels could be provided with decent food. They could probably even be given access to the kitchen to cook it themselves. But that wouldn't lead to lucrative contracts to supply industrial quantities of UPF shite.

"I worked in a hotel once and some guests cooked food in the kettles. Pasta, eggs etc.. Quite ingenious, really".

I lived in council bed and breakfast accommodation with my young son many years ago and this is what we had to do through necessity.

That would be far too easy and not in keeping with the be grateful for what you're given ethos so prevalent with some mumsnetters.

Just watched the BBC news and now all of this makes sense 😂

Stop apologising lass. You've posted a confusing title on an Internet chat forum. You're not sitting an exam.

These hotels may have been 4* at one time but many were mothballed and are now decrepit.
They're definitely not the same as hotels you stay in on holiday.
The food provided will be the cheapest of the cheap fruit,veg etc will be thin on the ground.
Got to keep those profit's up.
I don't advocate all and sundry wandering in to the UK but the people in these hotels are still people.
It's disgraceful that certain sections of the media and others with an agenda look to dehumanise and portray them as some kind of vermin.

A home in this country has a kitchen, even if it's small and basic.

Maybe the article was referring to people in temporary accommodation? The news reported that a family of illegal immigrants didn't light our hotel food, and slowed the mother cooking on something like a single hotplate in the shower. Others could be homeless people who've been offered temporary accommodation or those who've had to move out of their current homes due to damage and insurance claims.

They were not all mothballed. I chatted to someone who got moved on holiday from CW to Hampstead. I thought it quite topical. We talked about London, and he moved onto the hotel he’d booked. He was from Glasgow, chatty normal guy just happened to book that hotel.

And?

Your post didn’t reflect the situation.

Hahaha so you spoke to one person so that's the situation for the whole of the UK.
Are you saying the hotel accommodation isn't profit driven and the dehumanising of immigrants isn't happening?

’Are you saying’ this part made me laugh as it’s such a leap. The idea that all were mothballed isn’t the case and the one that’s been high profile in the press recently wasn’t.

It's not as leap at all and I didn't say all were mothballed in my original post but then that wouldn't fit your agenda