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!

Excellent. I want to live near people that are culturally like me - Can I have a social house in a 'White Christian British' area? Like York or Harrogate? Expensive areas but nothing like as expensive as London.

She doesn’t. She’s lived in a country that’s been diverse for decades but chosen to live in a non-diverse area.

Dating apps can select for larger areas if necessary so, while I understand your point, there are ways to compensate for people's concerns.

I also feel like there could be an opportunity for the government or local council to create some sort of social dating apparatus that can help willing local women make long lasting friendships/possible romantic connections with people from these communities so that they don't feel so isolated and alone.

Clearly someone is paying for them. Many seem to arrive well dressed and with mobile phones. They have clearly not just scraped together the money for the boat.

As soon as they arrive start training them up, they want to live and work here - let them. So theyve come on boats ? Immediately get them training for coastal rescue / lifeguard.

Street cleaning, refuse collections, if any are qualified / highly skilled fast track their background checks. We are a nation needing workers . Let them work . Leaving them unable to do anything make the situation worse.

Some of the whitest areas are also some of the cheapest places to live. And many of them have more availability of council houses for swaps than other areas. It doesn't have to be York or Harrogate which have, I am sorry to tell you, non white populations. My dentist is from there
It's remarkable how fast the conversation changed from asylum seekers specifically to general diversity/immigration levels. Hmmmm

Love, there’s no need for dating apps. Just walk up and down on the streets outside the hotels on your own late at night. You’ll have no issue getting some action.

In fact, you can do the rest of us a public service by doing this!

What makes you think that any man lucky enough to date me wouldn't adopt to my culture and customs? Likely it would be a case of give and take regardless. Western society doesn't do everything right and we can learn a great many things from different cultures.

Have you ever thought about relocating? I’ve heard it’s very sunny in Afghanistan.

There's no trend though. Numbers dropped in 2023 before rising again through 2024 and 2025. There's been a fall to date in 2026 but it's far too early to say whether it's just another fluctuation as we've seen previously. We could be asking why numbers soared so much when Labour came to power (2023: 29,437; 2024: 36,816; 2025; 41,472).

I can't help but feel this is a Labour plant as there are no other posts by this user and they haven't come back to defend their position.

It's Labour once again gauging public opinion.

Last time around white women were instrumental in getting Tony Blair voted in on numerous occasions.

They're testing the water with this to see what the appetite is.

The answer is a resounding NO. We don't want more illegal immigrants in middle class areas or ANY AREAS for that matter.

It feels like an invasion of another race, 99% men, Muslim, from another culture and era of time.

Stop the boats once and for all. Reform have put out a very clear plan and I will vote for them without issue.

Andy Burnham superfically comes across as a nice chap. But he needs to do the hard work and sort these illegal crossings once and for all.

they aren't refugees or asylum seekers. They are economic migrants.

I now wait for the plant to come back and defend their position...

This really is a piss take isn't it?

I came here on a work visa. It annoys me that asylum seekers and low-skilled immigrants generally get credit for the tax and economic contributions I and other skilled immigrants make (I pay nearly £100k a year in income tax). In any case, I'm grateful to have a well-paid job here and I think this country is doing me the favour in setting up the conditions for it to exist. You guys would manage without me, I'd be worse off. I'm always slightly amazed at how little confidence British people seem to have in themselves! You have amazing talent here!

Anyway, if there were a higher bar for all immigrants, I would clear it, and would face less hostility because everyone around me would know that there is a high bar.

There is no advantage to me and people like me to having mass, low-skilled, non-integrating immigration.

Ah the “no-one is demonising people who complain about unlimited immigration” is here again to claim that everyone opposed to current levels if immigration wants to bomb the boats and drown people.

Such rational and constructive discourse.

Yes, many people are fleeing horrendous conditions. One of my closest friends parents left their country (Vietnam) as asylum seekers and went first to Australia and eventually came here as they continued to experience discrimination as a family despite contributing positively to their community, and they were welcomed here, which I am proud of.

But there is a big difference in people arriving here as families, having made efforts to learn English, and young men arriving here on their own. If conditions are so terrible and dangerous in their home countries, what sort of man leaves his wife/children/elderly parents to fend for themselves in these conditions?

That's ridiculous. Vietnam is a safe country to live in.

That’s probably because at the moment white people are still in the majority

but we don’t need or want to import men when we have no idea where they are from what they may have done

we have enough home grown rapist and murders without bringing in loads more

If it did work and numbers continued to decrease would you be happy? Or would you join the people calling for the Royal Navy to sink the boats and drown people, or quoting statistics in a way that confuses general migration numbers with asylum seekers?

Should we take in all of 102m of Vietnam's population? Or just the ones feeling like a better standard of living.

agreed. hence I used the word 'stop'

My dear...if the mountain won't come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain so why don't you pick yourself and your blanket up and move along to where you will be in a minority and enjoy all the "diversity"

Are you imprisoned where you are? What's stopping you? Jobs, houses and schools are all over the country.

By the way, most of us who have woken up and smelt the coffee know that "diverse" means a white minority...nothing diverse about it at all really-just the swapping out of one group for another.

Before you settle your blanket in your gorgeous new diverse area, nip over to Africa, Palestine and China and give them a little lecture on why there are too many African, Arabs and Chinese there.

Explain the delights of diversity to them-ask them why they have so few-if any-white lawmakers or politicians.

Go on, off you pop! Or it only the UK you want to ruin?

I have put yabu simply because I don’t think we should be taking anymore asylum seekers or refugees in any area!!!!

I'm not actually concerned about numbers. I was merely pointing out that once again, Labour has not been fully transparent. If you're asking do I think a reduction in numbers will satisfy the public, I would say no because there are other concerns that are not being heard and acted upon.

Can we put the home grown rapists and violent men in prison? Or will they continue to make a bother of themselves on the front lines of asylum hotel protests, or on the front lines of politics being supported by the likes of SYL, Farage and Musk? Oh wait, sorry, I forgot that when men Musk etc likes are accused of rape it's because they are being set up by the system.

I am beginning to think the people constantly talking about "how will these men get their needs met" have an agenda and I don't think it's a pro woman one. I think it's trying to seed the idea that mens sexual desires are needs not wants and while in the short term that's a good argument against make asylum seekers, in the long term it sets "home grown" rapists up quite nicely with an excuse ready made.

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