Give Up Spare Rooms For Asylum Seekers

[fender62]

bristol mayor...spare room for illegal migrants, i wonder if marvin has a spare room ready
of out luvi actors and singers and labour mp's now rise to the challenge, spare rooms and your debit card..mans gotta live, after all the phone calls back home are going to cost.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8616321/Bristols-mayor-urges-residents-spare-rooms-asylum-seekers.html#comments

[New Judge]

//As far as I can see, every major seems to be an idiot of the highest order, out to make a name for themselves by pushing through anything that deteriorates their patch in their name before passing the mantle on to another who doesn't restore what was destroyed but instead add their own layer of guano on top.//

Indeed, OG. More ammunition for my Campaign for the Abolition of Local Government - Any Sort. (CALGAS).

[Peter Pedant]

// the guest will want to serve up, erm boko haram starter, followed by a little al-shabaab.//
and if you can only order by mobile app
the access code is - - AK 47

thank god we are getting back to normal after that RIDICULOUS david lammy spat

[Peter Pedant]

well thank god for the Marv

when Grenfell burnt down - west ken council ( clearly samaritans and going to sit on the other side of the tube - geddit) said "Friday after noon we're going home in the suburbs"
and the Grenfell survivors said "we are homeless"
and the councillors and administrators with hearts of stone said
"come back on Monday - no promises"

[Peter Pedant]

o GOd sorry Ed
that last was based on something I read once
the parable of the good samaritan

[tonyav]

The countries that these illegal immigrants come from can't be that unsafe or dangerous to live in imo, after all you don't see many women, children or people of the older generation in these dinghies, rafts etc all

[tonyav]

I seem to see is young men !

[Cloverjo]

Maybe because they’re most likely to survive the journey. They can then send for their women, old folk and children safely.

[tonyav]

Even if their illegal immigrants !

[Mamyalynne]

It's simply an appeal for volunteer hosts - not a command.

[fender62]

Mamyalynne, It's simply an appeal for volunteer hosts, i volunteer money toward there repatriation from the u.k to there home countries.

[-SharonA-]

Hey check this out, step forward Gary Lineker:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8620297/Tory-MP-tells-Gary-Lineker-offer-mansion-migrants-use.html

[Mamyalynne]

Well done Fender.

[david small]

There are thousands of spare rooms in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Africa. Cheap rents too.

[Peter Pedant]

there are some serious suggestions on this thread

[bodeker]

I don't think I would , not when there are British people sleeping on our streets.

[New Judge]

//Footballer has revealed he has contacted charity to offer spare room to refugee//

Only the one room. He has five bedrooms, so presumably has four to spare. He could get at least twelve migrants in them. I dare say his neighbours in Barnes will be well pleased.

However.....I'd like to see who receives their token migrant first - Mr Lineker or Nicola Sturgeon/Yvette Cooper. The latter two made a similar pledge around four or five years ago. As far as I know they still have an empty spare room. Must be a hold up with the paperwork.

[Ken4155]

Very facetious of you, NJ. If Lineker does indeed give up one of his bedrooms, he should receive kudos for doing so. Not brickbats for not giving up all of his spare bedrooms.

[Mamyalynne]

It's interesting isn't it that someone making the offer to help is only considered to be doing some good if they provide the amount of help others consider enough.

Whilst I accept that Gary has not housed anyone as yet and indeed may never do so, I find it quite nasty that he'd be called out for falling short of some others pompous expectations.

[ichkeria]

A lot of refugees seem to come from Eritrea, which has a “conscription for life” policy. I wouldn’t blame anyone for trying to flee that, with or without assistance from traffickers.
As someone said, call them what you like, but the only difference between them and us is luck ..

[ichkeria]

Indeed, mamya, people getting in a tizzy about this or that celebrity not doing this or that.
All of it irrelevant, whether you think it’s nasty or not.
The man called for volunteers. As I said before, anyone can do it if they want and they’ll be a better man than I am Gunga whatsit, but I can live with that and admire it :-)