Ain't They Lucky.

[gulliver1]

Anger as a council buys 12 brand new homes for refugees on a posh newbuild estate where properties are selling for £700,000.South kesteven district council bought the houses for £1.8million to house Afghan and Ukrainian refugees,in the village of Langford. .....Whilst locals struggle to get on the housing ladder.

[Bobbisox1]

Gulliver I’m all for helping Ukrainians, they are genuinely fleeing from a war zone, Afghanis? Could it be those that helped the British forces when were there? People like interpreters for example ?

[vulcan42]

From their website.

" They will initially be used as temporary housing for Afghan and Ukrainian evacuee families who have arrived legally in the UK. The homes will later be occupied by families on the SKDC Housing Register."

Please note the words "temporary", "arrived legally" and "later occupied by families on the housing register".

[gulliver1]

Suppose it's Ok as long as you are not the one on the housing waiting list or the one trying to get a foot on the housing ladder...Oh well.

[ToraToraTora]

09:50, you believe that? right oh!

[douglas9401]

Seven
Hundred
Thousand
Pounds

Vote winner right there.

[nailedit]

Here in Stoke there is a hotel housing refugees, providing them with shelter, warmth and food.
Directly across the road there is the train station with our own sleeping outside in sleeping bags...

[Mozz71]

Gully and Tora united for a common course: keeping Johnny Foreigner out of our wonderful nation. Don't it makes ya proud?

[johnny.5]

with our own sleeping in sleeping bags ?
how are you defining "our own"

[gulliver1]

09,50 You got those tunnel vision specs on again.??

[nailedit]

//how are you defining "our own" //
Seriously?

[sandyRoe]

Those houses seem to have been a real bargain. 150k each in an estate where some go for 700k.

[gulliver1]

Wonder who runs the South Kesteven Council.... Labour or Cons ???.

[ToraToraTora]

Sadly Gully it's the cons! No wonder they want to come here.

[gulliver1]

09.58 Wrong again as usual ...read the question title of my thread OK.

[ToraToraTora]

I'm starting to think that YMB is correct and the Tories are turning into the neo liberals.

[gulliver1]

10.09 And here's me thinking all this migrant crisis was down to Labour. Shows how wrong one can be.

[ToraToraTora]

The migrant crisis is down to the 5C, woke Trob types and our own failure to do what is necessary.

[gulliver1]

10 17 Most dyed in the wool Tories blame Labour for the migrant crisis whilst having a temporary memory loss that their own party is and has been in power for the past 13 years . You must be an exception to the rule.

[Gromit]

This isn’t anything to do with the migrant crisis.
These are legal immigrants.

[ToraToraTora]

Gully I don't blame Labour, I blame the 5C, the hand wringing trobiscites, the liberal lawyers obstructing everything, people like you and gromit moaning about the problem and then poo pooing any attempts at a fix. Mostly though I blame us "Tories", we should change the law until we can repel our borders and it is unchallengeable. We should create our own HR act based on common sense and leave the disastrous ECHR. At the moment, anything we do is stymied by our own laws etc.