Piddington Roars

[dreamingofgoodhair]

Can I draw your attention to this please ?
A village of 400 people in Oxfordshire, the government want to house 1200 migrants in an old RAF barracks nearby. No consultation and no infrastructure to support.
Before anyone accuses me of being racist, my family make up negates that.

https://thevillagethatroared.org/

we are clearly thinking the same!

To ‘send them back’ you can’t send them back if you don’t know where they came from.

I’m not saying that we should welcome them with open arms or that they are genuinely running from war, but that it’s not as simple as someone turning up and then putting them on a plane (who is paying for that?) back some random other country.

Another bit of whataboutery, are you up for barracks and over 1000 men waiting for asylum nearby to you?

Do one.
You are absolutely racist. You disgust me.
We live less than 1km from an army base that is now used to house refugees and zero issues. There is security and there is limited movement for them but they’ve put in play parks for the kids. Built a lovely kindergarten and language centre. It is good user of what was an empty site.

The Ugandan refugees came over in family groups. I don't mean that there were no young single men, but that the demographics were reasonably "normal".

If the ones I know were representative, they also had ID / paperwork showing who they were, and were brought pretty much straight here, invited by the UK government.

These asylum seekers are nearly all young men. Women and children in the village would be vastly outnumbered.

Plus, we don't know who they are or where they originally come from, or whether they were in genuine need of asylum (although it's hard to believe any of them need asylum when they're coming from France).

I wouldn't want to live in a place with 10 men to every woman.

Whilst it's not ideal, it's better than dumping them in impoverished communities with no infrastructure to support them.

But that’s the issue, it’s not secure. The men come and go whenever they like. There is zero security.

Sorry, I replied to the wrong person. Meant to reply to the comment about barracks being used for Ugandans.

Do you mean you’d be ok with it? Or others ie Piddington should be

Bleeding hearts will pompously point out that asylum seekers have not committed a crime so are free to come and go as they please.

Anyone with an ounce of sense says that we do not know who they are which endangers our citizens. It beggars belief that we allow it; all the palaver of going through passport control etc for most, whilst others come in with no id and can wander free.

Crowborough has a population of around 20k and around 540 in the migrant accommodation centre. Piddington has a population of around 350 and the proposed accommodation is for 1250.

I am sure you understand that the pressures on local facilities here will be proportionately very different.

Why kind of limited movement are you referring to?

It is that simple. It's why Shabana Mahmood is looking to establish a 3rd country system (as per the Danish, Dutch, Italians etc. etc.). A full 2 years after Labour ended the Rwanda arrangement calling it......you guessed it, racist, inhumane, blah, blah, blah

It is totally within the Government's power to deal with this. They either want to or they don't.

The illegal migration act 2023

Just more racist nimbys, the worst combination of Daily Mail readers.

It’s completely insane. There are a handful of buses PER DAY in/out of Piddington. There are no shops in the village. If the barracks is full, asylum seekers will outnumber residents 3:1 in a small village.

It’s a completely different proposition to a working military base which would have had families onsite, family elsewhere within the UK, full time jobs to occupy themselves and the social ecosystem of a military base with various clubs, activities and mess halls.

Labour should look for high areas of BlueSky / Guardian readers and capitalise on your keenness for barracks nearby to you.

Exactly. Bring the women and children. However they make up 1% of the numbers who get here. They get raped and thrown over board before making it to our shores. The mood would be very different if the majority were women, children with husbands even. This is an army of young men whose cultural belief is women are objects.

It’s ok though, as Edwina Currie thinks it’s a great idea to open brothels. Highly civilised in Holland she reckons - the majority of them aren’t Dutch and probably trafficked, but it’s totally civilised so ok. Would she offer up young women who are from the Cotswolds and have been to boarding school to work in these brothels?? Or is it just the working class girls from a life of care from the north who are fit to work in them? Other women clearly hate other women. She’s a bigger misogynist than Andrew Tate. I’m sick of having to tolerate men who have been brought up in British culture, society hates women to subject us to this - but it’s clear, this influx is going to tip things over the edge and I don’t know if we can comprehend how bad things will become.

You might change your mind about that if there was a violent rape by an asylum seeker just 5 minutes walk from where you live. My local park has completely changed because of this crime.

No, he is responding to the numerous calls to kick them out of hotels, and into disused barracks. This is what has been clamoured for by those opposing hotels since the start. Of course, they didn’t realise that it would actually be more expensive, would put larger groups of them together, and is a logistical nightmare due to the location of these. But hey! They got what they asked for.

There was a violent rape at a park near me by a white man. The park didn’t really change that much. I wonder why what was?

Who asked for barracks? That was Labour’s creation.

Your party said they’d ‘smash the gangs’ didn’t they? Not barracks.

Like I said, it's preferable to putting them into already over-burdened communities.

AB has said everyone must take their share; Oxford, for example, has one third the number of asylum seekers per 10k residents compared to Liverpool. This is the new reality.

Presume you’d be happy for your children to play outside next to a gang of more than a thousand unvetted men from countries with awful cultural beliefs?

None of us should be expected to, rural idyll or inner city council estate.