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

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doodiethewonderdog · 17/01/2026 10:59

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.

My doctor was late to my appointment because he had been at the local country hotel full of asylum seekers...
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SergeantAngua2016 · 29/01/2026 10:22

The Right wing including Reform have sadly been so successful in persuading people that all their problems are due to immigrants and asylum seekers.
OP, the reason the NHS is in such a state is largely due to austerity, resulting in years of underfunding of both health and social care, including public health prevention programmes.

If you want to know who to blame, look up not down. And make no mistake, this was a political choice not an oversight.

https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q1491

https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/in-the-news/news-coverage/what-have-fourteen-years-of-conservative-rule-done-to-britain

https://ifs.org.uk/publications/past-and-future-uk-health-spending

What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? - Institute of Health Equity

https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/in-the-news/news-coverage/what-have-fourteen-years-of-conservative-rule-done-to-britain

cardibach · 29/01/2026 10:27

ForeverLoveCeltic · 29/01/2026 09:21

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

I understood that all those in hotels have to be in those and can’t be rehoused elsewhere. That may have changed. Doesn’t affect my main point though, does it?

Dollymylove · 29/01/2026 14:57

LakieLady · 24/01/2026 21:37

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.

Traffickers, probably

doodiethewonderdog · 29/01/2026 17:11

SergeantAngua2016 · 29/01/2026 10:22

The Right wing including Reform have sadly been so successful in persuading people that all their problems are due to immigrants and asylum seekers.
OP, the reason the NHS is in such a state is largely due to austerity, resulting in years of underfunding of both health and social care, including public health prevention programmes.

If you want to know who to blame, look up not down. And make no mistake, this was a political choice not an oversight.

https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q1491

https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/in-the-news/news-coverage/what-have-fourteen-years-of-conservative-rule-done-to-britain

https://ifs.org.uk/publications/past-and-future-uk-health-spending

That may be the case but how does it improve our NHS by funding all of this care to these people - I mean all care. It doesn't help. It makes it worse.

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cardibach · 29/01/2026 17:37

doodiethewonderdog · 29/01/2026 17:11

That may be the case but how does it improve our NHS by funding all of this care to these people - I mean all care. It doesn't help. It makes it worse.

‘All these people’ would only 2/3rds fill Wembley. They are an irrelevance, financially speaking.

SergeantAngua2016 · 29/01/2026 18:26

cardibach · 29/01/2026 17:37

‘All these people’ would only 2/3rds fill Wembley. They are an irrelevance, financially speaking.

It's a drop in the ocean. OP is looking in the wrong place for the actual problem.

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