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!

Read the post I quoted.

Maybe Andy Burnham could start by fixing the housing crisis first.
Where exactly are these people going to live
I live in a rural area.
Very few migrants.
But there aren't any houses.
Where is he spreading the load too?

Entirely serious. Rose said the “hatred of white people is quite blatant”, so I asked her to identify what she was referring to. What's unserious about asking someone to substantiate an accusation of racial hatred?

Did anyone see the joint post made by Giorgia Meloni and Mette Frederiksen?

Powerful stuff.

Yes, I completely agree. Definitely not posting in good faith and I will not reply to that poster any more.

It is NOT racist or xenophobic to want to control your borders.

It is also not racist/ xenophobic to state that men from certain countries/ cultural backgrounds are more of a threat to women and girls. That is just a fact, no matter how much the left like to push back on this.

I think there is a sizeable chunk-myself included-for whom that word holds no power.

It has been thrown around so much and applied to so many things that are not racist, that its currency is much debased.

It used to be, in real life and on these boards, that people would quake if that term was used against them. We had people fretting about being racist if they braided their child's hair or called an Indian Takeaway, an "Indian". You don't see so much of that any more.

Now, many people now longer care, it's often met with a retort like, "So what"". It has actually started to be laughed at and that usually signifies the end.

Why?

So many strawmen ….

The psychiatrist worked as a psychiatrist in his country of origin, the TEFL teacher taught English in his home country before he came to the UK, and I don't know about the surveyor, but he had excellent English and was plainly very well-educated.

My archaelogist friend was a journalist prior to coming here. She didn't come by boat though, she came across the channel in the boot of a car and claimed asylum when she arrived at Dover.

Would you ask this if it was the other way around?

Suggest some alternatives then.

Seems like a sensible idea to spread them to better areas. Plenty of footage online of the sorts of places these poor refugees are being sent and it’s grim. No wonder they end up surrounded by a baying mob of toothless simpletons wearing union flag capes and carrying pitchforks.

I think this is about letting these illegal immigrants vote. Burnham is going to move them into areas who don't have a majority of labour voters..

This is about bolstering the labour vote - nothing else.

I am not going to bother running this through Google translate; if you have something to say to me say it in Swedish or English please (my Spanish is a bit rusty these days)

100%
And seeing as they have up to now been dumped in cities and poorer areas already struggling it hasn't impacted the middle class leftie 'lets all be nice' brigade.
Anyone who says otherwise has been called far-right/racist/Nazi for expressing concerns.
A case of ... you wanted it, you can have it.
Brilliant.

What danger was she escaping in France.

Why have you written your post in Russian? How does that help your argument?

White people are constantly being called racist for discussing immigration concerns. I don't recall seeing any evidence of that. What makes you think you're owed any?

Please could you tell me who they are and point to their post?

Exactly this

Oh just two European Prime Ministers, nobody important…

this has to be a wind up 😆

I'd love to have seen the scenes of lefties scrambling to see if their leafy suburb was on the hit list.