Red Wall areas are housing seven times as many asylum seekers per person as south-east England, an analysis of Home Office data has revealed.
The figures show that Red Wall areas have, on average, 15.2 asylum seekers per 10,000 of the population compared with just 2.1 per 10,000 in the South East.
You’re going to put the poor, indigent and charitable cases where the property is cheapo, right?
Yes, of course that’s the reason.
Tut, tut BiS. You think someone’s actually thinking, ‘Lets dump the shit away from us’, do you?
Surely other people aren’t as nasty and selfish as me!!
Most of the people here in our affluent middle class village are asylum-seekers.
They have sought asylum from inner city crime, chaos, overcrowding, and rape gangs. By golly, it seems to be working for the time being.
Sarcasm on
Diversity makes us richer – these are poor places so we should make them more diverse to make them richer. We are helping them.
Sarcasm off
Also, you do actually need some _space_ to take in new people. If you have 4 people crammed into a 10sqm flat abutting the borders of the edge of Zone 2, you won’t be keen to take in a couple of refugees…
No, you’re going to do what Tony Blair said they were going to do. “Rub their faces in the diversity”.
No point in dumping them in the London boroughs, since nobody would bloody notice the difference.
Cost as a factor is very low down the list.
If you have 4 people crammed into a 10sqm flat abutting the borders of the edge of Zone 2, you won’t be keen to take in a couple of refugees…
Au contraire. That is exactly what they do. They’ll move their cousin, his pregnant wife & four children in. Then bleat to the local council about being overcrowded. Who will then be rehoused & round we go again. Which is why areas like that are being recolonised. Try Hackney.
Policy of the major London housing association, mid 2000’s, from the horse’s mouth.(Regional housing manager) To divest the association of single & two bed properties by encouraging tenants to take up shared ownership offers in outer boroughs/peripheral local authority areas, to concentrate on providing larger dwellings for multiple occupation by large families. Not saying you’ll actually see that published anywhere but…
There’s an observation on the ONS site on average household size that while the average hasn’t moved for around 20 years (still around 2.4) there has been substantial increases in single occupancy and also multi-family households.
The mid-point is the same then, but the middle is being stretched.
I thought they were all put up in four star hotels in South Kensington.