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.

Ok Mr Tauranga.

No, one too many rape is already more than what’s acceptable i.e. any number (even just one) is too many.

I think it could be significantly reduced. If there was suddenly an outbreak of a virus 10x worse than covid in Eritrea they'd stop them tomorrow.

Did you highlight the person upthread who suggested someone burn down the asylum seeker camp?

Or the person who suggested taking all the asylum seekers to sea and drowning them?

I wouldn't like it and would move.

As we've seen in the news, many of these men have deep-seated anger issues.

@nomas just ignores the per capita data from our friends in Europe.

Ignores that in some nations VAWG is astronomical compared to the UK and men from those nations pose a risk. And just replies "hurr durr but this bad white person". No shit. We don't like this bad white Brit, let's not import anymore in.

I'm so sorry OP. This must be terrifying for you. You'll have to sell your house at a great loss and try and find somewhere cheap to rent, are there any family members you coild move in with, even temporarily? Your family's personal safety is more important, especially if you have daughters.

And a total ban on immigration - https://nordicreporter.com/2025/02/poland-refuses-to-comply-with-eu-immigration-rules-while-leading-the-union/

That’s not what it means.

Whilst our own dc have student debt, funny that

Regardless of race/origin, it’s men!
So 700 locals + 1500 males, 50% girls/women locals = 350 women and girls and 1850 men/boys. That is not a good demographic and as a woman, I would feel very unsafe as a result of the imbalance.
Terrible idea.

1500 is more men than the op’s village. It’s not busy.

Perhaps it’s a London answer rather than thinking about what the op is asking.

No, it’s about balance.

I’m all for government taking action on ensuring asylum seekers follow UK law, just as I’m all for the government taking action to educate young boys about rejecting the manosphere.

But if you try and misrepresent that 13 Afghan rapes are more than 140,000 white male rapes, then that needs correcting.

I’m embarrassed for you.

Don’t be.

And Australia, interestingly enough. Funny how some countries are experiencing this and others aren't.

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Where do you think a German mum feels her DD would be safer travelling, London or Kabul?

Do you have a link for that statistic?

No. I want to question why your counter argument to people being upset about unvetted, out of work, little to no prospect men with no respect for women, being housed near them and having genuine worries about their daughters, gets the response from you that white British men do it to.

Don't be naive. Having 1500 fighting age men, from a completely different background, culture, traumas, mixing in with 700 "natives" is not a good idea. Are your eyes closed to what's happening in other areas or is that all just part and parcel.

And I'm all for denying them any chance to stay here and deporting then.

"An asylum seeker accused of ‘raping six animals’, leaving one dead, claims he was a “normal person”. " Normal for Afghanistan perhaps. Not really who I want to share a country with here though.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2220949/asylum-seeker-raped-5-goats

Threads like this are so frustrating. I was hopeful at the start that there might be a reasonable discussion about what a solution could look like, but it's just been taken over by people who want them all gone because 'culture' and 'they'reall criminals'. The fact is, whether you want it or not, the UK is not going to suddenly stop taking in all asylum seekers. It is happening, so it would be more productive to talk about how to manage it rather than just ranting about how you want it all to stop.

Whether you agree with her political stance or not, PP who talked about how it would be better to house them near her in a big city has spoken the most sense. Asylum seekers ARE coming here, so PP suggests it would be better to house them near to existing infrastructure rather than in the countryside.

It's a shame that these threads just get taken over by extreme views because it completely stops any balanced discussion of solutions that are grounded in our current reality.

I watched an interesting clip of a Polish politician debating all this a while back. May even have been their PM.

He was debating a bloke who was attempting to guilt trip him about having not accepted many refugees. He just flat out stood his ground and said words to the effect of "we've donated generously but we're not taking lots of immigrants. Our populace has voted us in because they share our values and our responsibility is to them. We're a Christian country with Christian values and that will change if we allow mass immigration. We don't want that so we're not doing that".

The other guy kept trying argument after argument but it was water off a duck's back. The answer was no. That's what a lot of people don't realise. All this emotional blackmail/PC bullying relies on people feeling guilty. It's powerless if people just say nope with no fucks given.