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

[putupwhatever]

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.

There are a lot of inhabited islands off the UK. Why can’t they build something there to house them until they process their claims? They can have their own medical centres there and other necessary facilities. Would be a far better option than dumping them in the middle of villages leaving people to navigate the dangers that that situation brings.

Honestly, I don't care whether they're black, white, yellow, magenta, believe they're a woman, believe they're a frog, etc. If they're demonstrating that they're a threat to the society whose taxes are accommodating them, and especially to women and girls, then they can GTFO. It's really that simple.

Liggtseejer is a disingenuous poster. Probably like Nomas, sitting in Iran, or Russia, drinking coffee and getting paid.

What about the locals who live on those islands?

They don’t need to. Allowing men to enter the country from countries with deeply misogynistic cultures, often allowing them to marry children, and subjugate their wives is saying it for them.

I wouldn’t be happy @putupwhatever and I’m sick of anyone being immediately labelled racist if you voice any dissent on the topic. These men have not had the same cultural upbringing, their views, values and mores are not generally compatible with life in the U.K. Their attitude and general behaviour towards females is not respectful and can be threatening. I do know that they get spending money and they also get a daily bus service to major cities, so you might find not as many infiltrate the villages. I’m no fan of the political parties who are jingoistic, but surely this mass of men arriving (to do what?) has to stop. I should say that I’d probably have more sympathy were it not for my intel from friends, but the vast majority are not in desperate need and have not fled terrible situations. Plus most of them don’t give accurate identification information. You have to wonder why and that’s a legitimate question, irrespective of cultural or ethnic background.

I suggest most people are not watching GB news but are aware of the attacks, rapes and murders, even those the authorities try to conceal when an asylum seeker is involved.
As for you are more likely to be raped by a man you know or on a date, how does that even compare to the children that are getting attacked by asylum seekers.
Yes many are trying the nothing to see here, no problems whatsoever stance, it’s not working.

Legally a government can do so under article 58 by giving 6 months notice.

British Jews are also like 0.5% of the country and have pretty high levels of intermarriage with non-Jews.

It's just in practice much, much easier to manage a population which is say 95% one ethnic & cultural group, and the rest made up of various small 0.5% groups who understand they are not the dominant group and are fine with it, than it is to manage several groups of 5/10/15% who all disagree with each other and have significant numbers. (Note that many cases of ethnic tensions are not necessarily white British vs others, it's e.g. different south Asian groups flaring up over Kashmir or whatever.)

As they say "quantity has a quality all of its own"...

I said ‘inhabited’, meaning no-one lives there……

But there would be a lot of resistance to that

YANBU OP.
Most people would feel the same. Your poll reflects that, despite the whataboutism in some posts.

Which islands are you thinking of?

Don't you mean uninhabited ones?

Rockall would be a good start 🙂

Male depravity transcends borders. We should be against it everywhere, not just abroad,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Natalie_Connolly

White male John Broadhurst killed his victim with multiple attacks, including by raping her with a bottle of carper cleaner in her vagina.

No, you mean uninhabited!

Sorry, pedant alert, but that is "uninhabited". Inhabited means people do live there.
I do agree with your point though.

👏👏👏

Clearly the pp meant uninhabited.

Nomas. It isn't working

One too many, you say.

Not completely unacceptable?

If Reform or the Tories win the next election then they'd have a clear mandate though.

Haha. Yes you got me there. Uninhabited. ☺️

I would go to the papers with this.

Oddly, I work in construction and in an entire decade have yet to be harassed by the dreaded white van man. Maybe it's my demeanor but for sure most people I've had lecture me about misogyny in my sector have never set foot on a jobsite. When I mention what I do they're usually a bit 😳.

I don't doubt it happens but I do think it's a bit like 'the feminist who shouted at me for holding the door open'. That is to say it probably didn't happen in a lot of cases.

The Tories tried to do something similar with the Rwanda Scheme but Starmer thew it out saying it was "gimmicky" 🙄