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.

Where are they supposed to go? Why does it seem to you like this is the only option? They could be processed outside of the country - like they do in Denmark or like they're planning to do in the EU.

Protest as much as you can. Get your village organised to get media coverage to make this not happen. It’s savage to bombard a community in this way. Please please publicise your plight and get yourselves a voice.

Nobody sane would want this inflicted upon them, it’s a gross infringement on an established peaceful community.

whoever is your MP, lobby them. Or try to get Rupert Lowe to speak on your behalf in parliament.

I'm not saying I don't think some of the men aren't a danger or I wouldn't worried would I? I'm saying I think how the government are implementing it makes me helpless as there is absolutely no way of stopping it. It is being enforced on us and the village is collateral damage. Probably cos it is so small they figure it doesn't really matter if they piss us off.

Men assault women in every country in the world. However, it's only in African and Middle Eastern countries that women get publicly gang raped in broad daylight by huge mobs of men. Imagine that happening on Oxford Street or Times Square!

Yes, we should have stopped it after Brexit

But that's what happens now. It takes a long time to determine whether an asylum claim is valid, and while that process is under way, those people have to stay somewhere. (

My friend came to the UK around 12 years ago, and it took nearly 2 years before she got a decision about her asylum application. I suspect that it may be longer now, as there are so many more asylum applications. They need to speed up the asylum decision making process.

I wonder if Rhiannon Whyte's mother thought her precious daughter was in danger just going to work.

I'd feel helpless too.

No point trying to seek your house either

If we didn't have Brexit. Swathes could have come through in 2015 after being naturalised.

Asylum seekers so not have the right to work

I drank the “I’m a woman” kool aid which means I always have to live in suspicion and fear of men, especially men that come from cultures where it’s known that women are treated like whores and breeding machines. Especially men who are being imported in their tens of thousands which if allowed to carry on means that they will outnumber females in massive numbers. There’s no such thing as feminism in Afghanistan or Iraq. What is deemed acceptable over there in terms of behaviour to women and girls makes me want to weep.

So no, I don’t care about these men and I will fear their culture swamping my own culture openly and loudly.

@LuckyHazelFox because statistically, every women is in danger

Where are they supposed to go?

Home?

Haven't RTFT because that should be all that needs to be said...

We should just admit that multiculturalism has not worked. It’s been an abject failure. A multiracial society however could work but that would mean integration and assimilation so who is to blame?

I know. They did the same here already in 2022. Spent 1.5 million fannying around and had to pay Serco a multi-million pound compensation for breaking the contract. So it's already cost multiple millions. Then they canned it--now its back up. I saw that they thought the Wethersfield Camp would be 5 million and they have spent at least 49 million on it!

Too late now though …

Shall we start with Blair?

Somehow I highly doubt that they're replacing the people we've lost. The numbers we are expected to take are unknown at the present time.

This

Spot on!

There are some parts of the country you go to and it just feels like crap

Hey, OP, get this. Having an influx of 1,500 single males into your village is going to bring men with loads of time on their hands, loads of skills and abilities. Sounds like you really ought to be campaigning to have more of them sent your way!

Absolutely! As the biggest critic of Thatcher back in the day, I now find myself thinking what would SHE do!

I don't understand how people are apparently so against antisemitism and yet feel comfortable to be openly against multiculturalism.

I reckon Kemi Badenoch could answer that!