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

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putupwhatever · 29/06/2026 16:15

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.

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SpaceRaccoon · 29/06/2026 20:53

nomas · 29/06/2026 20:52

What does 'pure' mean? White?

Don't be silly.

glitterpaperchain · 29/06/2026 20:53

ISnoggedYourMum · 29/06/2026 20:52

Because you can see the damage it's caused. It's to do with how people behave in society and the fabric of the nation.

Would you want to live in Bradford?

What damage has been caused by Jewish culture?

ISnoggedYourMum · 29/06/2026 20:53

Tauranga · 29/06/2026 20:51

Gang rapes and group assaults happen in India and Pakistan so often, they have a name for it. Tarrahrush I think

Armed military and paramilitary gang rapes in Africa. Sickens men. I think South African men also openly admit to doing it in surveys.

EasternStandard · 29/06/2026 20:53

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 29/06/2026 20:47

But it isn’t affecting you, it is affecting the OP.
Do you think the OP should not be allowed to start a post because “diversity is our strength” in this instance.

Plus no one has offered to have the 1500 accommodation near them. Just the usual the op should.

suburburban · 29/06/2026 20:53

lightseeker · 29/06/2026 20:50

Well you could put a few thousand asylum-seeking men around here in London and nobody would notice. They would not be visible in the streets. They would just blend in with the general population and have a better chance of finding work than in a tiny village.

Yes they would, it’s not great here either

feel like where I live has deteriorated rapidly

glitterpaperchain · 29/06/2026 20:54

SpaceRaccoon · 29/06/2026 20:53

Don't be silly.

It's not silly, I also assumed that's what you meant. Words have meaning.

FlyingCatGirl · 29/06/2026 20:54

MightyDandelionEsq · 29/06/2026 20:06

Absolutely amazes me that so many women on here or the loudest feminist will openly scorn and slag off white men saying we don’t need them or they’re dangerous.

Then their mental gymnastics to overwhelmingly support and invite thousands of single young men into our communities from countries where women are treated like scum. It feels like there is a gang rape or child rape from an ‘asylum seeker’ in the news daily because of the ‘be kind’ brigade.

Truly remarkable stupidity. I don’t want any more men added to the country irrespective of their background, but I especially don’t want men from countries like these men are. Do you think they arrive and suddenly think women and girls are equal? Pull the other one. Adding tens of thousands of these men into our communities will not make women and girls any safer. Anyone who has lived near one of these hotels (I have) know how these men go around in packs shouting and leering at females and making us uncomfortable.

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No woman in this country has invited anyone except those that voted Brexit and created the vacancies for them! No woman has personally opened a camo in their community and invited everyone in so spare us the amateur dramatics!

I was pissed off when the Tories started vandalising RAF Scampton where my grandfather served, an airbase with so much history that my grandfather was so proud of and the Tories ripped away signage and a red arrow jet and flogged it to the highest bidder! I despise Brexiters for voting for this poisoned chalice! They got rid of 460,000 EU workers and the Tories invited the rest of the world to apply! Luckily the Tories stopped smashing up Scampton and the plan to house immigrants there stopped.

Do I feel safe around white racist thugs? No! I've had two online beg each other to be first in the queue to beat me up for not being racist! I've the childish bastards call me a nonce for not being racist! I've have seen these people speak about doing horrible things to women of heritage! I have seen their dirty little celebrations when little children of foreign heritage die! They said a 16 year old girl who the died crossing the channel was cause to celebrate because she's not a human! Oh yes there's men from there's men from certain deepest darkest parts of the world out there that aren't safe for women but neither are these white racist thugs!

WhatFreshHelll · 29/06/2026 20:54

@MightyDandelionEsq of course they will ! They alredy have networks here ! Delivery drivers and so on in the black ecconomy or barbers

SpaceRaccoon · 29/06/2026 20:54

ISnoggedYourMum · 29/06/2026 20:53

Armed military and paramilitary gang rapes in Africa. Sickens men. I think South African men also openly admit to doing it in surveys.

Many South African men think sex with a virgin cures AIDS, so they rape little girls and babies.

EasternStandard · 29/06/2026 20:55

FlyingCatGirl · 29/06/2026 20:54

No woman in this country has invited anyone except those that voted Brexit and created the vacancies for them! No woman has personally opened a camo in their community and invited everyone in so spare us the amateur dramatics!

I was pissed off when the Tories started vandalising RAF Scampton where my grandfather served, an airbase with so much history that my grandfather was so proud of and the Tories ripped away signage and a red arrow jet and flogged it to the highest bidder! I despise Brexiters for voting for this poisoned chalice! They got rid of 460,000 EU workers and the Tories invited the rest of the world to apply! Luckily the Tories stopped smashing up Scampton and the plan to house immigrants there stopped.

Do I feel safe around white racist thugs? No! I've had two online beg each other to be first in the queue to beat me up for not being racist! I've the childish bastards call me a nonce for not being racist! I've have seen these people speak about doing horrible things to women of heritage! I have seen their dirty little celebrations when little children of foreign heritage die! They said a 16 year old girl who the died crossing the channel was cause to celebrate because she's not a human! Oh yes there's men from there's men from certain deepest darkest parts of the world out there that aren't safe for women but neither are these white racist thugs!

You’re mixing up work visas and asylum claims.

5MinuteArgument · 29/06/2026 20:56

GaIadriel · 29/06/2026 20:41

The frustrating thing is that the types of people who support this are usually the types who'll never accept any responsibility/culpability. They'll just say it was the government's fault for managing it badly when it finally dawns on them what a horrorshow the whole thing has become.

Yes, this has happened in Germany. In 2015 Merkel opened the doors to over a million asylum seekers from the ME. Anyone with any concerns was shouted down. Unfortunately this was followed by rapes, murders and terrorist attacks carried out by asylum seekers and refugees. Now the far right is on the rise so German society has been damaged by this act of naivity.

LuckyHazelFox · 29/06/2026 20:56

nomas · 29/06/2026 20:50

It's never made in reference to all Muslims

Except it is. The millions of Muslims who simply live their lives and go about their business are generalised about.

I haven't seen anybody denigrate all Muslims but asylum seekers who may present a danger. I say may because we don't know so I'd rather give the benefit of the doubt to potential victims. The cultural differences isn't something that will be swept under the carpet, when they are exhibited by extremists who want to push those differences, instead of practicing their faith peacefully. You know all this anyway.

SpaceRaccoon · 29/06/2026 20:56

Given some fairly horrific assaults and murders across Europe, I strongly suspect that a proportion of these men are fleeing justice for serious crimes.
I also wonder if some countries aren't deliberately pointing their criminally insane at the West.

nomas · 29/06/2026 20:57

SpaceRaccoon · 29/06/2026 20:54

Many South African men think sex with a virgin cures AIDS, so they rape little girls and babies.

What 'culture' drove Wayne Couzens to rape and murder?

What 'culture' drove James Varley's depravity to baby Preston?

No culture is safe from depravity or misogyny.

lightseeker · 29/06/2026 20:57

All these people spouting on about the threat of rape from migrants. Just listen to yourselves ffs! Turn off the GB News or whatever drivel you listen to. You are more likely to be raped by a man you know or on a date. In London or other major cities, we obviously all pass millions of men from all corners if the world every minute of every day. Funnily enough, Im no more likely to be attacked than if I was walking alone in some village or in the countryside. Get a grip people - please.

ISnoggedYourMum · 29/06/2026 20:57

SpaceRaccoon · 29/06/2026 20:54

Many South African men think sex with a virgin cures AIDS, so they rape little girls and babies.

Literally feel sick

Puzzledandpissedoff · 29/06/2026 20:58

Indeed it's become an entire industry hasn't it

Unfortunately yes it has, @WhatFreshHelll - the scripts I mentioned and the chortling staff recommending "what to say" came from part of it, in this case a local Legal Advice Centre which pretended to be a service for all but was in fact purely an asylum seekers' resource

They even openly admitted they'd lied about this in order to secure their funding, which was crazy because they didn't know me from Adam, but they presumably believed absolutely nothing would be done and so far they've been right

FlyingCatGirl · 29/06/2026 20:58

EasternStandard · 29/06/2026 20:55

You’re mixing up work visas and asylum claims.

Eh? I haven't mentioned work or visas? I'm talking about asylum camps and white racist thugs!

ISnoggedYourMum · 29/06/2026 20:58

lightseeker · 29/06/2026 20:57

All these people spouting on about the threat of rape from migrants. Just listen to yourselves ffs! Turn off the GB News or whatever drivel you listen to. You are more likely to be raped by a man you know or on a date. In London or other major cities, we obviously all pass millions of men from all corners if the world every minute of every day. Funnily enough, Im no more likely to be attacked than if I was walking alone in some village or in the countryside. Get a grip people - please.

So the per capita data from our European friends means nothing then does it?

Totalmayhem · 29/06/2026 20:58

I agree it’s insane to put them somewhere so rural with no amenities. I understand your feelings of helplessness but you can lobby your local councillors & mp, set up a petition, contact the media in the hope of exposing the policy for the financial black hole it is and the government for what I would consider to be the underhand practice of waving through applications in secret because they’re ‘sensitive’. My opinion is that central govt should absolutely not be allowed to pass planning proposals that a council has already turned down - what’s the point in local govt if they are not allowed to fairly represent their constituents?!

GaIadriel · 29/06/2026 20:58

glitterpaperchain · 29/06/2026 20:50

Being anti multiculturalism means being against mixing of any cultures, no? Or just the ones you don't like?

The semantics of the definition aren't important in this discussion. The context is that people are sick of men from barbaric societies. Nobody is up in arms about Chinese or Ukrainian immigrants. Despite the historic moaning about Eastern Europeans impacting the job market etc, nobody is up in arms about most other immigrants.

It's the ones that brutalise women in their own countries coming and doing it here that's the issue. It's not about skin colour as so many desperately try and claim. It's about cultural practices - i.e. culture.

WhatFreshHelll · 29/06/2026 20:59

5MinuteArgument · 29/06/2026 20:56

Yes, this has happened in Germany. In 2015 Merkel opened the doors to over a million asylum seekers from the ME. Anyone with any concerns was shouted down. Unfortunately this was followed by rapes, murders and terrorist attacks carried out by asylum seekers and refugees. Now the far right is on the rise so German society has been damaged by this act of naivity.

Indeed and merkel is long gone.
Each and every person however whose lost someone in the terror attacks or violence from these men will have their lives and their families lives tainted and knocked off course won't they.

When you force people one way, they bounce back in the others it's not rocket science is it

It just continues to baffle me how some quarters can really hate women so much.

nomas · 29/06/2026 20:59

LuckyHazelFox · 29/06/2026 20:56

I haven't seen anybody denigrate all Muslims but asylum seekers who may present a danger. I say may because we don't know so I'd rather give the benefit of the doubt to potential victims. The cultural differences isn't something that will be swept under the carpet, when they are exhibited by extremists who want to push those differences, instead of practicing their faith peacefully. You know all this anyway.

Every time people say 'Muslims do x', they denigrate all Muslims.

Otherwise they would say 'a minority of x did y'.

LuckyHazelFox · 29/06/2026 20:59

lightseeker · 29/06/2026 20:57

All these people spouting on about the threat of rape from migrants. Just listen to yourselves ffs! Turn off the GB News or whatever drivel you listen to. You are more likely to be raped by a man you know or on a date. In London or other major cities, we obviously all pass millions of men from all corners if the world every minute of every day. Funnily enough, Im no more likely to be attacked than if I was walking alone in some village or in the countryside. Get a grip people - please.

I can now cross GB News off my predicted responses.

Naunet · 29/06/2026 20:59

glitterpaperchain · 29/06/2026 20:50

Being anti multiculturalism means being against mixing of any cultures, no? Or just the ones you don't like?

And of course, you like all cultures, even the ones that let filthy old men 'marry' 8 year old girls? All welcome here, right?

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