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Tiny village votes for 'independence' from UK amid asylum seeker row

22 points · 41 comments · Danhale93

schnitzelstoat · 1789563681 · focus · HN ↗
> Piddington — home to roughly 350 residents
> the Government announced plans to house 1,256 male asylum seekers in a nearby former military base.
It seems a bad idea to put them all in one place where they will outnumber the local residents almost 4-to-1
1. pjc50 · 1789564042 · focus · HN ↗
  Previous approaches of distributing them across low-rent hotels and bnb accommodation have recently suffered arson attacks. This isn't the first time a disused military base has been used for this kind of purpose, and ultimately they have to go somewhere; wherever the government puts them is going to object.
  I'm not even 100% clear whether they're allowed off the site!
  The asylum system leaves people in an extremely unpleasant limbo for a long time while it makes decisions, based purely on the false belief that they're uniquely likely to be criminals.
  1. philipallstar · 1789565004 · focus · HN ↗
    > A spokesman for the Home Office said: "The Government is closing every asylum hotel, saving taxpayers over £1 billion on asylum support since the election.
    This is why the hotels and bnbs were a bad idea.
    pjc50 · 1789565125 · focus · HN ↗
    .. and replacing them with what, exactly?
    grebc · 1789585892 · focus · HN ↗
    May as well house them in Westminster. They don’t actually do anything useful there.

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