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.

You seem to be under the delusion that I would try to work something for you in any capacity. Not worth my time.

Oh no...

'Inhabited' means people live there
'Uninhabited' means no one lives there

Yes, yes, I stand corrected. Maybe time I went to bed. It’s been a loooong day…

Why do this?
You keep bringing up crimes that have nothing to do with the op. I am against vawg anywhere in the world, which is why I don't want it to increase further in the country I live.

Ah. Ignoring the question it seems.

Yes nothing to see here.
Must be racist or watch GB news etc etc etc .

The point t is, my girls wouldn't be aware if they were walking past a migrant facility. The streets are busy - how would you know? There are all kinds of 'facilities' on the streets. All kinds of homeless hostels, etc. The ones I'm most worried about are mental health facilities housing men just out of secure psychiatric hospitals. Asylum seekers are just 'men on the streets' to us - no different to anyone else and not distinguishable. Creepy men come in all walks of life.

@nomas can't seem to comprehend this

Eh? One too many means one is more than zero, so zero is the only acceptable number of rapes. By any nationality.

This is so sad to read. How awful for your DSd and her friends. They shouldn't have to put up with that. Just awful

It really is this simple but it seems to have gone too far to reverse not just in UK but in whole of Europe.

He can... he is doing his job.

You should see parts of Glasgow now. These men hang around aimlessly and harass women (and more and more frequently, rape them). It's a big city but they're pretty obvious.
Some, at least, do Deliveroo. Illegal, but at least keeping busy probably keeps them out of trouble a bit.

This thread has it all. People living in Knightsbridge saying that it's fine, actually. Supposed left-wingers talking about working class people holding unapproved opinions like they're shit on the ground. Vibrant (bingo), art projects (inevitably slop where they push the token smiling woman out to guilt people into pretending bad murals of people holding hands are great, actually), why don't you set up a community football team (is that the MN immigration thread equivalent of 'why didn't you buy her a creme egg'?).

Also 'British men rape too' - yes, and we're stuck with them (and I'm extremely carceral in how I'd like those men to be treated) - what is the logic of bringing in more?

39% of British adults have less than £1000 in savings. We are giving a leg up to people who have the financial wherewithal to find the money to pay to get here, and then banging them to the top of the queue for state help over and above our own working poor.

the people we should really be helping and offering asylum to are the poor people stuck in refugee camps who have no means to change their circumstances at all.

The UK, with its ridiculous middle class liberal mea culpa ‘we must pay for the sins of our forebears’ absolute bullshit policy, is going to bitterly regret this madness in the coming years.

I think if anyone needs it explained to them why asking whether a non-war zone is a better holiday destination than a war zone is a stupid question, then they don’t deserve an answer quite frankly.

I actually knew a girl who solo travelled to Ukraine for "fun".

It's not impossible to go to Mogadishu. But VAWG is atrocious there..... Maybe we don't want those men here.

Really?

I need to downsize and Crowborough is one of the areas I've been looking in. I certainly haven't noticed any reduction in asking prices.

Where do you even start with this. In fact, I won't bother.

Ignoring the sexual violence against women there it seems

I thought one of the reasons Polish people are returning to Poland is because Poland is thriving. Excellent benefits for families and decent healthcare.

Yet you're never short of answers.

@nomas Yes we get it. We have bad people born and bred here too. Unsure why you feel the need to highlight it?

’one too many’ implies that there is an acceptable number of rapes and that that threshold is crossed.

I happen to think that no number is rapes is ever acceptable.