O M G My Door Is Red.

[Svejk]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-35358925

[ichkeria]

One of the directors of the company in Middlesbrough was asked (by the then MP for Reddoor, sorry Redcar) if he thought asylum seekers might be safer if the doors to their properties were not all identical (presumably not just "red") and he promised to "look at it".
Nothing was done. So they were aware of the issue.

[anotheoldgit]

These foreigners are treated better than our own. The money could better be used funding the NHS'.

[anotheoldgit]

39 minutes Sandy

[ichkeria]

"These foreigners are treated better than our own. The money could better be used funding the NHS'.

I wouldn't swap places with them. Not for all the money in Stuart Monk's bank account.
Turning them into a for-profit commodity though is surely a bad idea for all sorts of reasons.

[youngmafbog]

I wonder if non Asylum seekers have suffered problems or, as is more likely, these Asymlu8mn seekers attract attention to themselves by wearing non UK garb and jabbering in some johnny foreigner language whilst groping the local lasses?

[anotheoldgit]

Some of our own aren't lucky enough to have a home, never mind the colour of the front door.

[ichkeria]

Many of these people have fled war and persecution and end up being shoved into houses in derelict of semi-derelict back streets in grim post-industrial towns.
They can't work and it looks as though many are being intimidated by racism and xenophobia.
The only positive thing about it is that they haven't had to pay for the "pleasure"
But I think that if I'd had had to pay for all that I'd be asking for my money back ...

[jno]

Im not sure about the benefits of buying in bulk: a litre of red, a litre of blue and a litre of green should still cost the same as three litres of red.

[jno]

very true, aog, I grew up in a shoebox in the middle of the road...

http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/jokes/monty-python-four-yorkshiremen.html

[ichkeria]

I don't think, reading this a bit more closely, that the colour per se is the whole problem.
It's probably a rather superficial way of looking at things in fact. Many of the "asylum houses" are the only non-derelict houses in a terrace. Plus the fact that the people probably stick out like a sore thumb anyway.
But if you're the local indigenous bored thicko, maybe red doors trigger some primeval instinct ...

[jomifl]

/Im not sure about the benefits of buying in bulk: a litre of red, a litre of blue and a litre of green should still cost the same as three litres of red/
Yes, and a 50 gallon drum of red paint probably costs the same as a 50 gallon drum of green paint.

[anotheoldgit]

ichkeria

/// Many of these people have fled war and persecution and end up being shoved into houses in derelict of semi-derelict back streets in grim post-industrial towns. ///

They are not forced to come to our once 'England's green and pleasant land' they could have settled in your beloved Turkey.

[ichkeria]

"They are not forced to come to our once 'England's green and pleasant land' they could have settled in your beloved Turkey. "

Choices, choices aog, eh? Some come here, millions do go to Turkey.
Not the Turkish/Kurdish ones though presumably :-)

[tamborine]

Perfik.....no red doors

http://tiny.cc/ippb8x

[Mamyalynne]

What is sad is that there are people out there who think throwing eggs, stones etc at someone's front door is in some way acceptable.

[retrocop]

Yes Mamyalynne. Some British kids are allowed to do that by their parents on trick or treat night.

[bazwillrun]

Now you know why these people flood in here....So how comes our own homeless cant get given nice little houses with all the other "mod cons" these so called asylum seekers...illegals more like, the vast majority will have lied about their circumstances

who pays all the bills on these places ?....

[Mamyalynne]

I'd have been under the clock had I thrown anything at someone's house.

[ichkeria]

baz, the ones in Middlesbrough are properties in run down areas of town owned by a millionaire property owner who lives in a country mansion.
His company does the "upkeep"on them.
It's largely the same in the other areas on the UK (all in the north, Scotland and N Ireland). The government pays SERCO and G4S, and they in turn pay the property companies.
Margins are evidently tight for the service companies but are a nice little earner for the property folk. You can see the makings of a nice little "cottage"/slum industry here. I'd call it legalised trafficking of the helpless myself.

[jackthehat]

Repainting the doors may well deter the neanderthals harassing the occupants from doing so. But it is a step too far to claim that those occupants are being housed specifically where they can be targeted.