Family given £2m house... after complaining 5-bed London home was in "poor area" - DM

vivatifosi

Malcolm. wrote: »

Plus, in the case of airports e.t.c. arrivals mix before passport control.

Could it be made law that airlines flying into the UK from outside of the EU have to take copies of passports for all those travelling on them (this has already happened to me a couple of time travelling on cruise ships). That way even if a passport is destroyed paperwork relating to a country of origin would still exist.

Malcolm. wrote: »

Could insist on being given thorough details of everyone entering the country (for vetting) in advance of their arrival (as happens in US). And all non-eu nationals could have biometric data taken, at their expense.

I don't know about at their expense, but I have no problems with taking fingerprints and pictures, exactly the same as I have to give each time I fly to the USA. I didn't like it when I first went there, but now I have to accept that if I want to go to the States I have to do it.

Malcolm.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Here's what NASS itself says:

"If you are homeless or without money to buy food (we call this 'destitute') you may qualify for housing provided by us. If you do, we will give you somewhere to live in a place where suitable housing is available. You will not be able to choose where this is. We will provide transport to take you there.

We provide housing in the following regions of the United Kingdom:

• north west;
• midlands;
• north east;
• Wales; and
• Scotland.

We will not provide housing in London. Very limited housing may be available in the south-east of England. While we are providing your housing, you must stay at the address we give you unless we give you permission to move.


We provide different housing at different stages of your application process. If you qualify for housing when you first make your asylum application, we will place you in what we call initial accommodation, which gives you somewhere to live for the first two or three weeks.


After this you will usually move to different housing. It will normally be in the same region of the country as your initial accommodation, and in the region where your case owner works."

It's a statement of intent NDG. Like Gordon Brown not breaking his golden rule. We all know what happened there.

People believe what they see over what they read, and people see asylum seekers in both the south east and London.

carolt

Have to agree. Don't know if rules have changed recently, but thinking back to when I lived in London, I met loads of asylum seekers.

rickbonar

I think whoever decided to let these people live in this house at this must either own the place or be working for the BNP.

My reasoning is that it isn't very good PR for refugee/asylum seekers.

This revelation has caused massive resentment and you know this "bus conductor" .... as someone else pointed out bus conductors were phased out more than 20 years ago in Britain.

Jack, Stan, Olive & Blakey never had it as good as this guy and you know I posted earlier about another Somalian family were in a house some months back similar situation. That post seems to have AWOL.
Can anybody explain why?

Now I remember; simply because I said they should seek refugee status in Bangledesh.
U R a better man than me Gunga Din.

Lovely 50" widescreen teles the lot they had too. Anybody else remember that.

All courtesy of our tax money thank you very much.

I know virtually everyone here would like to see this money cut. Though to be fair the letting agents and owners of the property are coining it too out of the Housing benefit LHA.

neverdespairgirl

carolt wrote: »

Have to agree. Don't know if rules have changed recently, but thinking back to when I lived in London, I met loads of asylum seekers.

The rules changed, perhaps 4-5 years ago. Before that, most were in London.

neverdespairgirl

Malcolm. wrote: »

It's a statement of intent NDG. Like Gordon Brown not breaking his golden rule. We all know what happened there.

People believe what they see over what they read, and people see asylum seekers in both the south east and London.

It's not a statement of intent - it's a statement of their property available.

Not all asylum seekers are housed by NASS, some pay for their own accommodation, some live with family or friends.

neverdespairgirl

leveller2911 wrote: »

That may be what NASS say NDC but I can assure you Hastings and St Leonards has literally hundreds.....Honestly:D..


Recently been tracing the family history , One side of my family has been around Hastings since at least 1650.....cool eh? or sad?

Bit hard to see how you know their immigration status (-:

Cool. Not sad.

lynzpower

I think whoever decided to let these people live in this house at this must either own the place or be working for the BNP.

My reasoning is that it isn't very good PR for refugee/asylum seekers.

This revelation has caused massive resentment and you know this "bus conductor" .... as someone else pointed out bus conductors were phased out more than 20 years ago in Britain.

Rick, I think you need to re-read the thread and article.

The family are british citizens now.

The_White_Horse

lynzpower wrote: »

Rick, I think you need to re-read the thread and article.

The family are british citizens now.

british citizens? i couldn't care less if they were royalty or hero soldiers coming back from afghanistan having saved 13000 innocent children - they should not be living in a 2m house in kensington paid for by the taxpayer!!!!!!!!!

what is wrong with people. this can NEVER be justifiable. even if it were the only house in the entire UK, they should have to sleep in the gutter before being put in such a home.

the council workers should be imprisoned and the family should be booted out - yesterday!

ruggedtoast

And they should be punctured with pins and chafed with sandpaper and tormented by the music of Clayderman.