How can you cook meals in a shower?

[LaMarschallin]

Just that.

‘Agenda’ laughing again. It’s not really a big deal, well it was to him as he wanted to be central not in the new place but he didn’t take it out on anyone, definitely not the people there now.

You still haven't given a credible answer to the other points I made.
Cheerio have a good day.👍🙋

They’re not being forced to do anything. Meals are provided but they don’t like or want the food. What could they cook either a kettle if they had one? A pot noodle?

Why are they allowed to cook in a bathroom? Health and safety concern for hotel surely. Bacteria, germs, electric shock, risk of fire. FFS!

What points? I didn’t see anything other than ‘so you’re saying’ and then unrelated stuff that you were thinking.

Cheerio etc

They aren’t supposed to be cooking in those rooms so people are taping off the smoke detectors and using hotplates wherever they can. It’s a fire risk but I wouldn’t want to eat cheap mass catering every meal either so I get why they do it.

Ok, so you have informed yourself by reading the article. You can contact MNHQ to have the thread removed, it will be a "cancel the cheque" thread, I would agree.

One more try ..
Profits
Cheapest of cheap food
I didn't say all hotels were mothballed.
The dehumanising of immigrants.
You have chosen not to comment on these but then again I recognise your user name Farage fan girl type comments usually follow from you.

That's what struck me. 10 years.
It's like a never ending process. How many appeals are they allowed?

Nice try, I get angry Labour type posters as you are, who rage, and I don’t know yet who I’ll vote for. What happened to the cheerio?

Relax as a story it shouldn’t drive you to this. It was a nice holiday, no people were talked about badly.

I appreciate you're entitled to your opinion as am I.
I just detest how divided Britain has become.

Ok but I don’t think going from 0 to 100 in rage and drawing loads of incorrect conclusions in your posts helps with that.

I haven’t said much other than some hotels were in use, a high profile one was. There seems to be a theme of they were all horrible and not used anyway on here, which doesn’t sound correct.

Outside that I found the cooking in the shower interview interesting, it showed a more human side but also the reality of people’s situations.

How can you cook meals in a shower?

With great difficulty.

And they have to do it on £9.95 per week.

But apparently asylum seekers are living the life of Riley

I knew what you were talking about.

I worked for an immigration charity years ago. I find it sad that people look down on asylum seekers almost as inhuman.

Yes, the government needs to get a handle on immigration and tackle criminal gangs sending people on boats. But no one should look down on individual people looking for a better life.

Migration has been happening since time immemorial. All of our ancestors left Africa 1.75m years ago due to climate change.

Some of them have been there for a decade!! Why does it take so long to process applications?

Also a kitchen should be provided, I'm surprised the hotel hasn't burnt down to the ground by now using electrical cables in bathrooms.

Have you seen the food provided? It isn’t the gourmet 5* hotel food the Daily Mail has you believe it is.

Just a cursory google search will show you mouldy, rotten food, many have reported it is making them ill. Even the stuff that isn’t rotten is poor quality and gives little nourishment. My dog eats better than they do.

Would you feed rubbish to your kids just because it’s free? Look at the furore over the quality of school and hospital meals, should we expect better or just put up with it because it’s free? I suppose you think that because they are immigrants, they don’t deserve to be treated like humans?

https://news.sky.com/story/asylum-seekers-go-on-hunger-strike-over-poor-food-that-caused-some-to-end-up-in-hospital-12217586

Because the Tory government slowed down the process by cutting funds to the civil service. They also handed housing contracts to their cronies. Labour are having to deal with the fall out and being blamed for the costs.

The ten years case is multiple appeals.

Thats the jist
Although I don’t know anybody that could eat chicken nuggets and chips every night

This. It's costing so much because it's a system which isn't fit for purpose. It's slow, cumbersome and expensive, thanks to 14 years of poor government.
The implication in the article is that most people in that hotel were working illegally - but understandably. So they're being exploited by employers as well.
That family has been in the situation for 10 years! Children at school, another child born, cooking in the shower, it's not acceptable.

It's a disaster waiting to happen.

I'm just listening to the radio 4 programme. Whilst I think some of this is on us for taking 9 years to process an asylum claim and allowing endless appeals, I can absolutely see why so many people think these families are utterly taking the piss.

@LaMarschallinto be fair yes, that’s correct.

However it does seem a bit daft to start a thread based on hearing a sensationalist headline with no context and not expect other posters to wonder why you wouldn’t have read more first.

149 countries have signed on to the 1951 refugee convention. If you think your life is at risk here, you can go to any one of them without documentation and claim asylum. There are a number of countries where asylum seekers are treated very well, the U.K. is not anywhere near the top of the list, but if being housed in a hotel converted to an asylum centre, 4 to a room, being given poor quality, mass produced food and £10 quid a week is the lap of luxury to you, you’d have plenty of places to choose from which would do better.

Just to be clear, illegal immigrants get nothing. Refugees are able to work and pay the same taxes as U.K. citizens so can claim the same benefits. Asylum seekers are not able to work or claim benefits, so I’m not sure how you expect us to be able to meet the obligations of the UNCHR charter we agreed to, without providing basic subsistence for them?

What struck me from.the article

• 10 years of being funded and appealing for a third time. How much has this one family cost? Health care, schools, legal aid, housing etc.

• Multiple children being born (and funded)

-£600 taxi as an extreme example but taxis used for transporting asylum seekers but not data as to the costs.

They aren't forced to book in their shower they choose to. I imagine the food they are provided with is similar to the rubbish dished up at most state schools in this county , day in day out.

No wonder people are fed up.