3 years ago | 17 comments
Hello, This is another of those strange anomalies/priorities which make little sense. We pick up thousands of asylum seekers in boats crossing the channel and some have no right to be here.
We’ve all seen reports of the overcrowded centres where they start, but what about the luxury hotels that they are sometimes housed in?
Then Serco, instructed by the Govt, are offering landlords more in rent for their properties than the rent they are currently getting. Why? What about our homeless?
Many of them are British citizens, people down on their luck who have had mortgages, paid council tax and contributed for years to British tax and society. Are they not more deserving of our generosity?
Some of them are ex-service personnel who, in addition, have fought for our country. Where is the rhyme or reason in all of this?
Our country is upside down, vilifying landlords, protecting new arrivals – crazy.
Grahame
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12:42 PM, 16th November 2022, About 3 years ago
Reply to the comment left by K Fearon at 16/11/2022 – 12:38They don’t have £10 mobile phones, do they?
They can keep safe their mobile phone, but not their passport…funny that.
And they very much are leaving their countries for fun…certainly in the case of Albanians that are now dominating the boat numbers.
I no longer wish to pay for this, nor see any more people that are not culturally native/accepting of the UK and neither do a great many others.
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12:48 PM, 16th November 2022, About 3 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Luke P at 16/11/2022 – 12:42Explain then why Albanians are the largest group in UK jails and at current growth rates, there’ll be more Albanian criminals in British jails in 2026 than there will be in Albanian jails.
All these law-abiding, ‘trafficked’ innocents, right?
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1:01 PM, 16th November 2022, About 3 years ago
I have an open mind about asylum seekers; I don’t have an open mind about the contract with Serco though because it’s a terrible contract for a landlord.
Does any landlord have any experience with Albanians as tenants? Good or bad?
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1:40 PM, 16th November 2022, About 3 years ago
I have had a number of Albanians in the past…pre-Covid past (maybe 2016) and they were all criminals. I mean serious crime police after them. Child-trafficking & drug gangs.
There’s a really good 3-part post on Facebook’s The Bruge Group from a chap that once worked out there as a consultant on the World Bank and Italian Govt. funded Rural Roads Project, which and gives you a true insight (and a lot of explanation, rather than excuse) as to why the country is so exceptionally corrupt…it permeates everyone…kids, little old ladies, university professionals…the whole damn country is rotten.
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1:42 PM, 16th November 2022, About 3 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Luke P at 16/11/2022 – 13:40
I see. So you’ve had bad experiences with them in the past. I can see why you’d consider them high risk.
Anybody else got any experience with them?
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1:46 PM, 16th November 2022, About 3 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Beaver at 16/11/2022 – 13:42I can only tell you my personal experience.
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2:28 PM, 10th December 2022, About 3 years ago
Something that should make you think many of the Albanians are from the undesireable srctions of the population. They are spending thousands to come here illegally. A flight is safer and about £28. Got to wonder why they don’t, can’t, use that option.
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3:14 AM, 15th December 2022, About 3 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Tony Clements at 10/12/2022 – 14:28
Every house on my street is now Albanian they rent every square foot of there homes for money every most houses to rent aren’t British landlords it’s beyond a joke now and it’s always youn single men that are coming over here I’ve got 2 friends that are homless atm can’t even get a room in a shared house let alone a 1 bedroom flat or house the best they can look forward to is shared accommodation
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9:50 AM, 15th December 2022, About 3 years ago
And how many British women have even the slightest bit of interest in Albanian men? Our cultures are just too different. I’ve spoken to Eastern European women who actively expect, but *want* the ‘man-of-the-house’ to be dominant (particularly those not from the cities). That is not how things are viewed here and what do you think will happen with a bunch of testosterone-fuelled Albanian men with no female interest being shown…
If only we had a system whereby those of different cultures/religions/ethnicities/languages could all exist on this planet in some kind of relative harmony with invisible but recorded lines as to where each of those different areas start/end and where any laws pertaining to that area extend…