My doctor was late to my appointment because he had been at the local country hotel full of asylum seekers...

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When was the last time you had a home visit? Is this a way of managing the " problem" by them taking clinics there? Is it a way of hiding this issue? I understood they did not have access to the NHS yet I see massive bags of medicine labelled for this hotel too at the dispensary. We wait about 6-7 weeks for a routine appointment.

Where do you live - roughly of course? Maybe we do live near the same place but just experience different things.

That first paragraph makes no sense, sorry!

Sorry, I'm a bit confused.

Are you suggesting that asylum seekers are respnsible for all of the above?

And who are the property owners that should be paying double council tax.

Landlords aren't responsible for the council tax on properties anyway, it's the tenant who has to pay.

Good point!

If the building is in their garden illegally though and they are charging rent to tenants which is unlikely to be above board and they haven’t got planning permission for the dwelling I think they should pay more council tax as there will be more rubbish created or prosecuted

There’s an area near me with a high immigrant population very much like you describe. But I think it’s chicken and egg. It was a shithole before, and nobody wanted to live there. The immigrant workers moved there because it’s cheap, and easy to get a tenancy with no credit checks. They didn’t make it run down, it already was.

Mine was a nice area and it’s still ok but has definitely changed in the last 10 years.

Haven’t most places? There are towns where I used to live that are 98% white British that have gone down the pan in the past ten years. That’s down to lack of council spending, not immigration.

Yes, fair point

My area has changed a lot in the past 10 years too, and definitely not for the better.
We have a very very small number of immigrants.

Where on earth do you live that you have 5-7week wait?!
it is frankly unbelievable in the UK.

Jesus. I was poor growing up in the 70s and 80s and all those things existing then, maybe not so many mopeds (?!) but I lived in multiple hmos, there was crime, always dodgy shops selling dodgy stuff under the counter, drugs and alcohol and people running amock, I was surrounded by crime , chaos and mayhem and it seemed like the norm for me growing up.
we were in abject poverty, all adults seemed to be ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’ and we were the only mixed race/ brown faces family in the area, apart from the Asian family who had been there for generations, so pretty much all of this absolute mayhem was down to born and bred English people and no doubt the same people now, or their kids and grandchildren blaming immigration and asylum for the fact that their world remains so hard and the welfare state and the immoral rent charges makes it nigh on impossible for them to climb out of their hole.

Would anyone be interested in participating in the Rooms for Refugees programme? A spare room is basically all that's required, you would be vetted of course as would be your guest. There's no payment involved, it quite different from the Ukraine scheme but a very valuable contribution.

Of course it's Labour's fault all these people have arrived in the last 18 months and under the previous 14 years of Conservative government no one entered the country at all.

Indeed. It's the same with the massive welfare costs - there were none at all under the Tories. Apparently.

More info here www.roomforrefugees.com/

Would love to know how many of the people on here are participating in that programme.

It’s a great programme, but it’s completely irrelevant to this thread. Asylum seekers can’t be housed that way - only those given leave to remain. And in any case not having space (or resources of any kind) to house someone doesn’t mean you are hypocritical for saying they should be treated as human beings.

We had a guest from Ukraine stay with us, so some of us do live by our principles. I’d consider doing it again for someone else but we’re currently housing a young relative whose parents live abroad (yes, British people migrate too!) while he’s at university near us.

This is always used as a ‘gotcha’ by people like you. I don’t participate in the programme as I don’t have a spare room, which is the sole requirement. I also have a disabled child who couldn’t cope with a stranger in the house. I couldn’t house anyone ‘extra’, refugee or not.

I guess it’s similar to the fact that all those people saying ‘why should we house immigrants when we’ve got people of our own on the streets’ don’t offer to house those British homeless people. Most people just don’t have the capacity to house an extra person.

That's not correct. This is from that website.

I can assure you that asylum seekers can and are hosted in the Rooms for Refugees scheme.

I’ve hosted refugees but i wouldn’t take an adult male. I wouldn’t have a problem living next door to a man, or in the same town.