No Wonder They Are Queuing Up Across The Channel To Come Here.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2914429/Guests-staying-four-star-hotel-angry-asylum-seekers-check-in.html

While our own ex service men are sleeping on the streets, and our poor are attending soup kitchens and living on food parcels, our Government are putting up 'Asylum seekers' up in £100 per night 4 star hotels.

[Fusion5]

That's why they are risking their lives to get on a lorry at Calais, to come to the land of plenty and freebies. Makes you wanna spit blood, as my Nan would say.

[Baldric]

We really must be a Worldwide Laughing Stock by now!

[Gromit]

Have you been to a Britannia Hotel? It's a wonder the Asylum seekers aren't complaining.

Britannia Hotels are empty of paying customers because they are ***. They have the capacity to house the asylum seekers. The Government will not be paying the rates that the Mail quote.

The alternative would be for the Government to build its own hostels which would probably cost the taxpayer more.

The cherry on the cake, which the Mail missed was that Britannia's Chief Executive, Alex Langsam is a non-dom tax exile. The Mail story is based on a TripAdvisor review. The real story is that the Coalition Government has entered into a deal to make a tax avoider even richer.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

Surely there are enough ex military camps that could accommodate them?

[Gromit]

Without checking AOG, I suspect ex-military camps land has been sold for housing development.

[Gromit]

Sorry its a Daily Mirror link.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cash-strapped-ministry-defence-expected-hand-3087627

[pusskin]

Makes my blood boil. Where will it all end? Us being barred from these hotels?

[B00]

Us? Who's the us? And why would we be barred?

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/seven-army-barracks-hit-as-soldiers-move-into-clusters--but-scotland-complains-of-broken-promises-8521263.html

/// The bases being sold off are Claro Barracks, Ripon, North Yorkshire; Howe Barracks, Canterbury;Craigiehall Barracks in Edinburgh; Cawdor Barracks in Brawdy, Pembrokeshire and parts of Redford Barracks, Edinburgh; Forthside Barracks, Stirling; and Copthorne Barracks,
Shrewsbury. ///

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-21687067

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21674341

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21672681

[Gromit]

AOG, Another here.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/historic-barracks-site-is-up-17414/



But it also helps the MOD mask the

[New Judge]

"The alternative would be for the Government to build its own hostels which would probably cost the taxpayer more."

No. The alternative would be to leave these people (who are predominantly young single men) to fester on the streets. Once word gets back across the channel that things are no better here than they are there the numbers cutting their way into lorries to stow away may decrease.

The relevance of Mr Langsam's tax arrangements is unclear but since it's been mentioned, good luck to him. At least he will not have money appropriated from him to pay to house an feed foreigners who arrive here illegally - even if the cash eventually does end up back with his company.

[jim360]

That's possibly the most cynical thing I've seen on this site.

[ToraToraTora]

"The alternative would be for the Government to build its own hostels which would probably cost the taxpayer more. " - no the alternative would be to enforce the only EU law that helps us and send them back to France.

[New Judge]

So, Jim, you suggest that we accommodate and feed every lost soul that finds their way to these shores. Not only that, but we do so with a reasonable amount luxury (however poor Brittannia Hotels might be). Then of course, if they do not find their way into the "black" economy having gained their bearings here, we accommodate their claims for asylum or other claims to allow them to settle here. After that it's but a short step to the full raft of facilities and benefits paid for by taxpayers and to which the newcomers will contribute little, if anything.

Cynical I may be, but I detest seeing the UK being taken for a ride by those who are not happy where they were born and see this country (with some justification) as El Dorado.

[ChillDoubt]

We really must be a Worldwide Laughing Stock by now!
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By now? I think you'll find we have been for some time and by some way, too!
We're renowned for spending more feeding a prisoner per day, languishing in one of Her Majesty's hostelries than we are on a Serviceman so asylum seekers would be living in the lap of luxury I'll wager.

[Fusion5]

I can remember when the only asylum seekers were Russian Ballet Dancers.

[Sammy48]

while patients lay in corridors in A & E we put these freeloaders up in hotels. Just wait until the general election 'just call me Dave'.

[Farriercm]

I blame the PRESENT GOVERNMENT.