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.

Net migration has fallen slightly since its historic insanely high peak after multiple years of "importing a city full of people every year" and is still extremely high by historic standards, and the government is opening even more routes for people to enter the country...

Lefties in the comments: "LABOUR IS FIXING MIGRATION! WILL THE FAR RIGHT NEVER BE SATISFIED?!?!"

I don’t think refined Saudi business men worth mega bucks are the ones hanging around street corners in Norfolk* with nothing to do.

*or similar

What in the UK.
Nothing.

Because anyone who has any entrepreneurial skills is fed up with being taxed to death by Reeves and is moving their business abroad.

Why would anyone send their daughter to Mogadishu, which the Foreign Office has currently classed as a war zone? You wouldn't even get travel insurance.

All war zones are verboten by the FO, including Ukraine.

Which is why we don’t need to import more in addition to our home grown ones!

Logic: we already have plenty of rapists and murderers in the UK so importing more is no big deal.

You seem to be confusing culture with ethnicity. They obviously go hand in hand but it's the actions that people have an issue with, not the skin colour or religious beliefs.

I mean, there's literally a Church of Satan but nobody gives a fuck as they're not chopping off heads and forcing children to marry old men.

No one has said this.

No one is making them leave.
They are leaving because they can. They have the money and the skills.
They believe the country will get worse. We will not be allowed to own anything. We will be taxed on even more.

They are leaving to access better health care. Better education
Less DEI
More opportunities
Better roads
Less business tax.
Less inheritance tax.
Less tax on everything
Less LGBT plus experimenting on children
Less immigrants
More community
More safety

Amusing you think Nigel Farage will be the next Prime Minister.

Quite. I lived in the Gulf and felt extremely safe. I wouldn't feel similarly safe in Afghanistan or even say Egypt or Morocco as a woman.

In what way am I confusing culture with ethnicity?

Do you live close to a migrant facility ? We do - a hotel. My 14 year old DSD and a number of her friends have to walk past it to get home from school. They are regularly followed by men from this facility variously offering money for sex and going into disgusting detail about what they would do to them, and berating them for not covering up their bodies. The police are largely useless, often treating complainants as racists.

Correct me if I’m wrong but as wrong as any sexist behaviour is, white van man doesn’t usually openly target underage girls in public. Stating that all men are a threat is the equivalent of saying ‘look over there’ as a distraction from the fact that we are allowing into this country men from violently misogynistic cultures, who deem it acceptable to marry children and who still allow women to be stoned to death. Men may be a risk per capita, but allowing men from these backgrounds into the country isn’t exactly helping is it ?

Fallen slightly? UK net migration is falling significantly. ONS estimate net migration at 171,000 for 2025. This is a sharp drop from the peak of 944,000 in the year ending March 2023

Oh here we go , whataboutisim.

Nomas, sitting in Iran, chatting shite

@ISnoggedYourMumthis also applies

https://www.rescue.org/uk/article/five-most-dangerous-places-be-girl

Laffer Curving them right out the country.

They defo implied it. One of the most common responses to anti immigration arguments is "well, plenty of European white men rape too".

I can't see how that response is intended to do anything but minimise the concerns around women's safety.

So which part was incorrect? Is Mogadishu not a war zone according to the Foreign Office?

And anyone who disagrees with you must be foreign and not British?

Fewer immigrants!

I'm so sorry. The worst thing is that even talking about it will get you criticised. You absolutely have a right to your feelings about it.

This is because so many British people are leaving.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/30/sexual-violence-tigray-women-abuse-gang-rape-ethiopia-eritrea

These are the men I'm terrified to share a country with. Yet 87% of Eritrean men have their asylum applications approved, and they're one of the main nationalities arriving here.

Your point could have been seen to be misleading that Afghan men are responsible for hundreds of thousands of rapes. I corrected that it was 13 rapes.

That does not imply in any shape form that 'we already have plenty of rapists and murderers in the UK so importing more is no big deal.'