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.

So what.
You realise that Idlamic countries are still using slaves? African ones as well?

@smallglassbottle I just asked Alexa this question for you. This is her reply:

’The current population of the UK is estimated at 69.9m people as of 2026. I don’t have specific information about goat related activity within that context’!!

Same username across many threads. I don't understand why she doesn't seems to comprehend the data we show.

The UK abolished the slave trade because the Jamaicans riots chased us out of their country after having been abused for many years.

Don’t be deceived that it was through good will.

Fucking hell and they are being given asylum ffs.

Including Rhiannon Whyte? A woman who made it her job.

We will just vote for someone who will ban it immediately. Thanks.

Rather than put them in a camp near to your village send them back and let them apply for immigration legally we all know that most would not be allowed in

Yes.
Or paid.

"Noone says a thing"

Actually this is untrue and there are legal battles happening now to challenge the human rights abuses being perpetrated by countries who are trying to do what you've suggested. Because let's be very clear - to deny someone the opportunity to seek asylum, to deport someone who has made a claim for asylum that has either not been denied or which has been approved is a direct breach of human rights law.

Do you like having those protections in your life? Your right to the government not just coming to take your home off you tomorrow? The right to flee with your children if War broke out here tomorrow? If so then you do not want to undermine those rights. You can't undermine them for an asylum seeker without undermining them for yourself and future generations.

Vote for you want, it’s a free country.

What an unpleasant lie.

There are only 2 countries where you can apply for asylum before being in the UK. Anyone else has no other option but to find a way to get here in order to make an application.

Home is where they are supposed to go, they are not fleeing war.

the Jamaicans riots chased us out of their country after having been abused for many years

That sounds like a Rupert Lowe policy idea.

This post tells me everything I need to know about you. Your world is very small and I hope it gets bigger.

Popular at parties has to be the sentence of this thread!!!!!!!

I don't care either.
My family were down a pit when this was happening, and some will remain there forever.

I want a safe and homogeneous life in Britain for my children.

Ironically your response is exactly what I am talking about

From Wikipedia:

“massive Jamaican rebellions—most notably the Baptist War (or Christmas Rebellion) of 1831—were a primary catalyst that forced the British Parliament to abolish slavery itself in 1833”

Quite big enough for me, thanks.

How many would you open your home to BTW ?

Deport them and then there won't be a problem. But it seems there's no real political will to do so. I don't know why we have to have passports- our borders are open. It's really not fair on the villagers - they are bound to feel unsafe, especially as in some African cultures they don't respect women.

So we are one of two totally stupid countries??

What data? You haven’t posted a single source or chart.