Hotels emptying

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..of asylum seekers..
On the news. Are we supposed to be impressed? They are just being shuffled elsewhere, aren't they?

Totally agree -

We (as in me and dh) are buying houses which councils are paying guaranteed £1000 a month for, for these people.
cheaper than hotel rooms but still a cost

If they were on a prepayment meter for gas, there's every likelihood that they'd be on a prepayment meter for electricity too.

If they didn't put credit on the electric meter, they wouldn't be able to heat the water to make up a bottle of formula.

(Mind you, I'd bloody ban prepayment meters if I had my way, at least for electricity: there have been two cases of house fires caused by people using candles for lighting because they had no money for electricity in my small town; one of the fires was fatal.)

🤔

Just following your lead.

https://www.hampshire.police.uk/news/hampshire/news/news/2026/february/25-year-old-man-jailed-for-10-years-for-raping-a-woman-in-southampton/

Just today. How horrific.

Do you have a safe place to live?
Do you have clean tap water and heating in your home?
Do you have enough money to pay your bills?
Do you have access to medical care when you need it?
Can you buy healthy food?
Do you have access to the internet?
Can you go to a Library?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/crackdown-on-legal-visa-abuse-stems-surge-in-asylum-claims

Asylum applications from work, study and tourist visa-holders more than tripled under the previous government and accounted for 37% (41,400) of overall claims in the year ending June 2025.
International students made up the highest proportion of claimants at 40%, followed by 29% from work visas and 24% visitors.
Stricter screening has seen refusal rates for short-term study visas increase from 45% to 68%, while skilled worker rejections surged from 3% in 2023 to 21% in June 2025. Among nationalities with high rates of asylum claims, the refusal rate was much larger still – lessening asylum accommodation pressures.

It warns that claims without merit will be swiftly and robustly refused, and those without a legal right to remain in the UK must leave or face removal.

We can't build enough houses for the 600 extra people coming over in yesterday's boats.
It's just not sustainable to keep building on farm land and open space.

Personal insults now? Lol.

And take into account the fact that the amount included in her UC for rent is highly unlikely to cover the whole of her rent if she isn't lucky enough to be in social housing. My (step) DIL has a £200pm gap between her UC housing costs element and her actual rent, and her rent is a good bit lower than most in the city she lives in.

I think some types of male predators are attracted to the UK because of our incredibly low levels of prosecution of and relatively lenient sentences for rape too. In other countries the punishment is far higher. It's true that in a lot of cases this would be because of the harm to the men 'owning' the woman raped, rather than the harm to the woman, but nevertheless there are a number of other countries where rape can be punishable by death.

Here apparently you do your time then you get given what will be a large sum of money (in your home country) and travel back to your own country funded. Or potentially let out to assault and rape more women and girls while your asylum claim is 'processed' and your 'human rights' protected (but not the human rights of your female victims, whose lives are ruined forever and get no help whatsoever).

Aren't there some who fear persecution because people in their home country being a sex pest would cause them a lot of trouble and they they can stay?

Yes I take your point and we are very fortunate in the UK

However the working classes have paid and fought for the freedoms and facilities we have now.

it’s fairly normal in the Western world nowaday but it wasn’t always like this and my dgf and many other people made great sacrifices in WW2 and the NHS was only established in 1946

We should protect what we have instead of sacrificing it.

Over the whole world rape is under reported and under investigated and not punished as much as it should be. Some countries and cultures define rape/sex abuse not as widely as the UK, some countries allow people to marry their rapist to avoid punishment. Some countries allow marital rape. One even punishes the victim for having sex out of marriage.

The UK isn't any 'easier' than any other country.

Yes I think so

????????
Unless you are thinking of people who are gay?

It's like people on here make it up as they go along.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/14/zimbabwean-paedophile-allowed-to-stay-in-uk/

We are fortunate and I agree with your take on who fought and paid for it. I think women and girls now should realise what we have isn’t replicated everywhere too.

Sorry, what are we ‘sacrificing’?

@mollypuss1 "The response of the privileged, “Sorry you’re dying but it’s not happening to me so I don’t actually give a shit”.
Yeah that kinda sounds like what a lot of British people who are not being negatively affected by all these illegals flooding into Britain are saying alright. 😂

You do realise that the stats show that people from certain demographics commit sexual assaults to a much higher degree than others right? Or are you saying it's not true?
We know this to be a fact, yet nobody seems keen on keeping the risk to a minimum.

So, not fearing persecution as you said because he is a paedo, it's because he is HIV positive and cannot get treatment back in Zimbabwe.

Right.

While not good, at all, the reason he's been allowed to stay so far, is because of medical treatment. I am not sure the story is over.

And he would be horrified by the rise of the far right that he fought so hard to stop. We have the anti fascists (your dgf) to thank for the freedoms and privileges we now.