To agree with Andy Burnham that it’s about time the middle classes took their fair share

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/08/11/burnham-middle-class-areas-must-take-more-hotel-migrants/

Not a huge fan of Labour I must say, but this is well overdue!

It's also very Tory (and possibly quite Reform).

Burnham doesn't need to worry about losing any votes there.

Maybe Burnham can include the site at Bexhill that was mooted before the last GE. The Tories backed down on using it because of local opposition in a Tory seat.

I guess many are clicking OP is unreasonable because they believe the answer is to stop the boats, not to fiddle around with where these men are housed.

We have some extremely wealthy ,(beyond normal wealthy ) areas around here. They can take their share too!

Yes where else would this happen in the world?

what standards of accommodation do they come from in their own countries and why should we have to accommodate them at the expense of our own citizens needing housing

Maybe No10 can be used as an HMO as the PM is wasting money on further premises in the North?

They should be deported.

Other countries return all migrants entering by illegal means.

We need to do the same.

The people piloting the boat are never the bosses, they're often the people who are being smuggled and will have been given a discount to pilot it. They have no clue where they're going or what they're doing. Sometimes they do multiple crossings... e.g. we hear of one boat getting into trouble and being rescued by the British coastguard but before the British coastguard comes, the makeshift captain jumped out and asked the French coastguard to rescue him. He wanted to go back and do more crossings to make a bit of money.

Are you saying you have an issue with those fleeing the Chinese regime from Hong Kong that they should have been turned away? Or genuine Ukrainian families fleeing the savages from Russia? Or the Afghan interpreters that helped the British forces? Some immigration is clearly ethical, and the right thing to do. Millions of men washing up here from safe enough countries looking for a house and benefits, so they can move their entire extended family indefinitely to cash in here not so much.

We should be able to CONTROL our borders and who is here day to day easily. It is a small country and we have plenty of tech options we could utilise, but I have no faith at all that Andy is going to do anything of the sort, quite the reverse. The migrants will see the wet lettuce at the top and take full advantage.

these people and their families are also being exploited as they're being told lies by the crime bosses and often the crossing is deadly... no guarantees of entry despite paying thousands.

The documentary was heartbreaking. We're not doing enough to fix this. Everyone suffers except the crime bosses.

My post was exclusively addressing legal migration, not asylum, so I'm not sure if you've replied to the wrong person.

Lots of MNers tend to ignore all the data showing their higher than average per capita crime rates.

Uk birth rate is low because conscientious people can’t afford children. Fix that first.

According to Government statistics only 51% of asylum seekers are working after being granted asylum and usually in low skilled jobs topped up by benefits. Wonder what the other half are doing. Also according to Government statistics most of them are from Pakistan, India, Nigeria and Bangladesh. I didn't know these countries were war torn.

I posted to the right person, thanks. You are talking about the legal migrants, and I am highlighting many of them were invited here for good reason.

I heard they are using bigger boats because the criminal business of supplying smaller boats has been halted to some extent. But there is so much money in it the gangs have turned to bigger boats instead. These so-called refugees are paying so much it is making organised crime megabucks. It’s all about economic migration and the pull factor is a country with apparently unlimited free housing and benefits acting like a massive magnet. But no money for its own taxpayers!!

Yep, the number of turds on our greens and pavements have rocketed.

This demonstrates a level of hatred of white people imo. They wouldn’t not care if this was happening to any other ethnic group.

And yes, I do believe some white people (on the left) have allowed themselves to absorb the hatred of white people message they have been exposed to over the last few decades.

I believe some of these people may change their view when the reality of being a hated minority reveals itself.

No just people being realistic. Guess you don’t live anywhere near the hotels housing these young men? . Over 200 on ONE boat and this boat was successful. Surely you cannot believe this is sustainable?

And those statistics are vastly underreported too, because many people have given up going through the process of reporting due to the lack of police action.

Other half working in barbers, vape shops and take aways.

Interesting chart about this in the FT this morning.

I was talking about people who come over on work visas.

Literally you've the gone on to respond to stuff I never said, but somehow assumed you knew my views on?

FWIW I do think it was the right thing to give sanctuary to people from Hong Kong and Ukraine, but I'm a lot less convinced about men from Afghanistan:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04kx3y7e6ro

Frankly, the less Afghani men in any country, the better for for the women and girls of that country.

No. Economic migrants. Stop with the faux naivety.

Lots of them work as Deliveroo riders - delivering drugs as far as I can see. The stench of weed on the streets of central London is revolting.

Interesting. It's quite a racket, isn't it?

The government is unwilling not unable. They could stop this tomorrow if they wanted to. They don’t.