@Switchnow "If people had just shut up about hotels this wouldn’t be happening in leafy villages, where arguably the risk might be but certainly will feel heightened because of the absence of anything at all to do"
I wasn't out protesting about the hotels because I had the experience before it all kicked off (so no one was protesting actually). The hotel that was such a big problem for me was closed by the time the protest kicked off in other areas. There were a couple opening in leafy villages at that time though? In Sussex? I suspect you just didn't know about them. Not the big one in Crowborough - smaller ones.
The hotel protests have a legitimate grievance. It was never the intention to just get them moved elsewhere. Because people move, as I have, and a constant game of the government moving them around just means we're all more likely to bump into them everywhere
I am going to speak for the protesters when I say - we just don't want them and if they have to be here, they need to be detained in their facility.
this smacks of divide and conquer kind of territory - you think you can divide people by pointing to us and saying "it's this person's fault that you now have it in your area". This won't work. We're human beings. We go to lots of places for work and all kinds of other reasons and we move around. We visit other parts of the country. Nobody was trying to spread the problem around. At one point I was unfortunate enough to live in an area with them And travel to an area with them for work reasons... and then they opened one up relatively near to my Parents!
And there will be HMOs everywhere you go. The hotels were targeted for protesting because otherwise you see what you saw in Thetford.
But wait... someone does want to spread the problem around ... there is one person who is absolutely committed to doing this... Andy Burnham.
They can't gaslight your way out of this one. They spent years playing that game. And look where we ended up.