AIBU to feel helpless about a large asylum camp in our village?

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My village has been chosen for a 1500 open asylum camp for single men. It will be an open camp (as the men haven't done anything wrong so aren't detained.)

The thing is the village only has 700 people and it is pretty isolated. it's about 10 miles to the nearest city and you can walk to another small village. There is a playpark, a pub and a primary school.

It has to go through planning, but the government have changed the planning laws so that they grant themselves planning and you can't see it as it is deemed sensitive. So they will just grant themselves planning and you can't oppose it without a judicial review--by which time it will probably be already open.

They want to reduce the number of people in hotels. But am AIBU to think that this puts the burden of sorting these issues out on one tiny community? Feels like we are collateral damage to be honest. The community will be outnumbered 2 to 1 and it feels too much. There is nothing for them to do or places to go. Also the fact that it is all single men put in one massive place with no money or means or anything to do is going to lead to problems

Apparently the camps cost £10 less a night than the hotels. But they don't count the set up costs which are astronomical (the one in Essex was £47 million to set up). So it seems like it's not not even cheaper than the problem it is trying to solve but much more expensive.

AIBU to feel a bit helpless? It seems so unfair but there is nothing I can do. We wouldn't be able to move from the village anyway as no one would buy a house here.

Western men do assault women. It's sad but all the data shows it's lower per capita.

Oh that’s ok then. Obviously a race to the bottom

They need to be stopped from coming to the UK in the first place, it is never ending and we have already taken in loads. What about the cost to the environment of all these extra people

as someone else said upthread we have young people who need to be in work and given opportunities, it’s not our responsibility to take all these third world migrants

It’s such a shame those who have no problem with this can’t have a home swap with those who do.

OP I’m confused where you are what is the army base if you don’t mind me asking? Is it the one in North Yorkshire?

France isn't Afghanistan.

I hope for all those who vote for this and openly preach that it’s the kind thing, when the £350 a month comes in from Labour to house a fighting aged male from the Middle East that they do it.

"Refugees are welcome here". I would love to know who commissions those ubiquitous signs. I have a rough idea.

I must admit my compassion for, and willingness to fund these men, is now depleted.

This post exemplifies why Reform will win the next election or at least be the biggest partner in government. The ops experience or supposed experience, leads her to basically accuse the original poster with extremely justifiable concerns, v carefully ofc, of stereotyping etc.

I really think many people in western Europe have either a death wish for our culture or alternatively an absolute inability to see that different cultures can be very different, and that this can and does lead to both immediate and generational problems.

Can you provide a link to support this? Because asylum seekers aren’t allowed to claim benefits

Maybe stop selling weapons to their governments.

I wouldn't risk death to flee France. I've enjoyed my trips there.

That's for the elected officials to answer, isn't it? And if they can't, then that adds weight to the argument. Simply saying they ARE going to present a danger will merely elicit the response OP doesn't want, that she is being racist and stereotyping. Asking how they can be reassured they are NOT a danger, is harder to brush off. Its a reasonable question.

It just confirms to me that a lot of the people that wang on about male violence etc don't really care about the victims. It's all about virtue signalling and telling off men. These individuals wouldn't dare criticise an ethnic minority because that's a risky topic in the sphere of virtue/political correctness.

A wrong un is a sweet way to describe a man who stabs his cafe server 20 times in the neck.

Rhiannon Whyte

A wrong un is a is a minimising word to describe a murder in a bank by a man just doing his job peacefully

Gurvinder Johal

And so on.

It’s so odd. They were going to do this at an ex RAF base in Lincs. Much uproar but planning went through. They even had containers for living quarters delivered and there were adverts in the paper for staff. Then the government announced it wouldn’t happen and they’ve just moved it elsewhere by the sounds of it. To a similar sized village and rural location. 🤷‍♀️. Doesn’t make sense apart from wasting money and time.

You don’t even have to mention anything contentious such as cultural background; putting 1500 bored, single men in a small town isn’t a good idea

How are they meant to get jobs and integrate etc if in small villages in the middle of nowhere? Even the most conscientious refugees will struggle to use their time profitably and productively. The less conscientious ones will need their time to be accounted for.

Presumably they are given allowances - how much and where does it come from?

Hmm yes. Is this what you mean by ‘wrong un’ @Ketzele?

Sounds like you have drunk the right-wing Kool-aid. Why do you immediately assume every young woman is in danger? A policy of treating asylum requests swiftly and efficiently means these young men have more chance of either being granted the right to remain (and work, and contribute, and integrate) or being denied and removed to their country of origin. Can the local community offer language classes, skills training...? Or default to hostility and fear. Which will engender hostility and defensiveness

We can't take in any more.
If we only took the real asylum seekers, the worthy, the good...we would be outnumbered 100000000 to one.

We need to stop, and reconsider how to help.

Quite frankly, we need to help our own and let others help theirs.

They haven’t moved in yet,how do you know your property value has altered if nothing has happened yet.

I can't begin to describe my anger for Lincs being used in this way.

And Wayne Broadhurst.