Migrant housing & heating

[Jadeandpurple]

My relative is over here as an asylum seeker and currently living in a shared house. I checked in when the cold snap started to see if he needed help with winter clothing. He told me that in his house the heating is on all day long. Sometimes it gets too hot so he has to switch the radiators off! In the summer he had the AC on all day in his hotel room while we were all sweltering in the heatwave. He also told me that he hasn’t yet met any off the other residents in the house because they are all off to work in the morning. They are working illegally as they aren’t supposed to.
Now before someone says that I want migrants to freeze to death, I don’t! Everyone should have heating but it seems a bit unfair that this is going on whilst other people who actually have people living in the house can’t heat their homes and are also paying tax on the income they earn. It’s messed up!

My relative’s experience is discrimination was that he felt at uni some people used to avoid him because they found out that he belonged to a particular group. His solicitor and also friends of his who have successfully claimed asylum told him he didn’t have a very strong case so he is working on a better story now! He’s here for economic reasons and he’s been pretty open about that. Anyway I just felt bad as I knew he probably didn’t have much winter clothing being from a warmer climate.

Blah blah blah 🙄

Turn it in OP and stop abusing the name change function.

My three DC have all lived in shared houses and one of the things in the contract said they had to keep
the heating on at such a such temperature.

I think you need to stop, now, OP. It is embarrassing, tbh.

How does someone having their heating on all day affect others who can’t afford their heating? I have an extremely cold house, I have to have it on most of the day and it still only gets to 17. Sounds like you don’t like your relative very much, which is probably why you didn’t offer to host them - you could have helped your proposed problem if they stayed with you!

OMFG at the OP

His solicitor and also friends of his who have successfully claimed asylum told him he didn’t have a very strong case so he is working on a better story now! He’s here for economic reasons and he’s been pretty open about that.

Hmm

Utterly ridiculous post.

Implementing a system to limit heating in asylum seeker housing (creation of a new policy/the paperwork involved/a person popping round/Installing timers on every heating system) would cost so much more in the admin required than a few quid extra day having the heating on full.

You’d have to be a total idiot not to see that.

Even if someone did want to suddenly spend money on asylum seeker housing (ha!), it is usually very poor housing stock, and there’s loads of improvements which would take priority over this - eg. insulation, anti mould, double glazing.

What a load of nonsense.

Yes, I'd say so.

A post seeking to stir up hatred of asylum seekers. How original!

How is the relative’s situation affected by other residents allegedly working?

Well, of course this is real

Aside from OP's incredible warmth and compassion towards asylum seekers in general, there's a solution here - let asylum seekers work. We need workers. Many people who seek asylum speak English, want to work and are highly educated and qualified. So let them work and earn their keep.

Your a c u n t . End of.

And there are all the pensioners and the homeless freezing to death.

Completely agree with you!

Why is everyone getting worked up thinking OP is making it up. The work thing alone makes this totally plausible. It’s madness that young heathy men migrants are not allowed to work when we have the number of open vacancies in the economy. In a heated house, young men frlm the indigenous population would probably sit around all day playing PS5 games because they have mental health issues or some similar excuse.

You’d have to be naive to think that majority of assylum seekers are not economic migrants.

Sign me up…

We can totes put them into shared accomodations in random place in a country and provide the grand £40.85 a week.

I think we should do that, yeah🙄

I could easily live on 40 quid a week if all my accommodation and bills were paid for.

Tbh I think anyone jealous of asylum seekers needs to get their head screwed on right.

Also, have you seen the jobs they do? Feel free to go wash cars for 2 quid an hour if you don't want to pay tax.

😂 sure.
Good luck getting food in while also having money to buy food and possibly a bus day ticket to get in for signing in... Oh and maybe top up on mobile. And Clothes in general, and soap, toothbrushes, shampoo, shoes....
You would make more as a beggar by our local tesco considering he makes enough for all the alcohol he carries in the evening.

In a usually over crowded and unsafe shared house?

Your still a c u n t