Anger as a council buys 12 brand new homes for refugees on a posh newbuild estate where properties are selling for £700,000.South kesteven district council bought the houses for £1.8million to house Afghan and Ukrainian refugees,in the village of Langford. .....Whilst locals struggle to get on the housing ladder.
Gulliver I’m all for helping Ukrainians, they are genuinely fleeing from a war zone, Afghanis? Could it be those that helped the British forces when were there? People like interpreters for example ?
" They will initially be used as temporary housing for Afghan and Ukrainian evacuee families who have arrived legally in the UK. The homes will later be occupied by families on the SKDC Housing Register."
Please note the words "temporary", "arrived legally" and "later occupied by families on the housing register".
Here in Stoke there is a hotel housing refugees, providing them with shelter, warmth and food.
Directly across the road there is the train station with our own sleeping outside in sleeping bags...
10 17 Most dyed in the wool Tories blame Labour for the migrant crisis whilst having a temporary memory loss that their own party is and has been in power for the past 13 years . You must be an exception to the rule.
Gully I don't blame Labour, I blame the 5C, the hand wringing trobiscites, the liberal lawyers obstructing everything, people like you and gromit moaning about the problem and then poo pooing any attempts at a fix. Mostly though I blame us "Tories", we should change the law until we can repel our borders and it is unchallengeable. We should create our own HR act based on common sense and leave the disastrous ECHR. At the moment, anything we do is stymied by our own laws etc.