The unhinged rushed to take in as many migrants as possible from a destitute country of 44 million with a history of corruption, criminality and sex trafficking, without any cap, costing, vetting or plan, will not end well. And the social media mob demanding it now will soon be complaining about rising rents, homelessness, attacks on women and healthcare waiting lists. We should be compassionate, but not irrational.
Sharon Overy
2 years ago
The government is not “outsourcing its responsibility”, there is literally nowhere else to put them because of the stupid number of people constantly being shovelled into the country!
We already have some 45,000 ‘refugees’ being housed in hotels because there’s no alternative, the waiting list for social housing being approx 1 million.
And yet the virtue-signallers are beside themselves in excitement at the thought of destroying two countries at once – Britain, by swamping us and Ukraine by denuding it of people who might easily return when safe to do so if they were in Poland.
It makes a change to accept genuine refugees instead of the males of fighting age who have abandoned their womenfolk back home in pursuit of economic gain.
Last edited 2 years ago by David Bell
Matt M
2 years ago
In outsourcing its responsibility to house refugees, the Government may well have created a situation rife with danger
There are as many examples of vulnerable people being abused in state run accommodation. Look at those poor girls in local authority care in Rotherham and elsewhere that became victims to grooming gangs.
Peter LR
2 years ago
Yes, I assumed people would need a DBS check first. That system would easily get clogged up and slow down availability of accommodation. I imagine any social housing or hotel rooms have all been taken up by the 30,000 who crossed the Channel last year.
D Glover
2 years ago
The UK has a housing shortage, caused mainly by a lack of places in which to build. The UK imports half the food it needs. The NHS has a record waiting list; two years for some procedures.
It is humane and attractive to solve the world’s problems; Hong Kong; Syria; Ukraine; Somalia, by giving refuge. It is also impossible in this small country.
In one chapter of her novel ‘Should we stay or should we go’ the writer Lionel Shriver imagines an England so full of refugees that they break into old people’s houses and squat in vacant bedrooms. Far fetched? Well, we do have a lot of old people whose family have left them, living in houses that are now too large.
This ‘adopt a Ukrainian’ scheme may be pointing to a future where we have to double-up.
The unhinged rushed to take in as many migrants as possible from a destitute country of 44 million with a history of corruption, criminality and sex trafficking, without any cap, costing, vetting or plan, will not end well. And the social media mob demanding it now will soon be complaining about rising rents, homelessness, attacks on women and healthcare waiting lists. We should be compassionate, but not irrational.
The government is not “outsourcing its responsibility”, there is literally nowhere else to put them because of the stupid number of people constantly being shovelled into the country!
We already have some 45,000 ‘refugees’ being housed in hotels because there’s no alternative, the waiting list for social housing being approx 1 million.
And yet the virtue-signallers are beside themselves in excitement at the thought of destroying two countries at once – Britain, by swamping us and Ukraine by denuding it of people who might easily return when safe to do so if they were in Poland.
Well said!
It makes a change to accept genuine refugees instead of the males of fighting age who have abandoned their womenfolk back home in pursuit of economic gain.
There are as many examples of vulnerable people being abused in state run accommodation. Look at those poor girls in local authority care in Rotherham and elsewhere that became victims to grooming gangs.
Yes, I assumed people would need a DBS check first. That system would easily get clogged up and slow down availability of accommodation. I imagine any social housing or hotel rooms have all been taken up by the 30,000 who crossed the Channel last year.
The UK has a housing shortage, caused mainly by a lack of places in which to build. The UK imports half the food it needs. The NHS has a record waiting list; two years for some procedures.
It is humane and attractive to solve the world’s problems; Hong Kong; Syria; Ukraine; Somalia, by giving refuge. It is also impossible in this small country.
In one chapter of her novel ‘Should we stay or should we go’ the writer Lionel Shriver imagines an England so full of refugees that they break into old people’s houses and squat in vacant bedrooms. Far fetched? Well, we do have a lot of old people whose family have left them, living in houses that are now too large.
This ‘adopt a Ukrainian’ scheme may be pointing to a future where we have to double-up.