Asylum seekers find 'place of safety' in Blackburn (From Lancashire Telegraph)

I have no problem with genuine refugees, but I have a big problem with a private company doing a public service. How much is Serco charging the taxpayer for their second rate services, you only have to ask anyone who has had any dealings with this company their experiences were not good. So I wonder why the government keeps giving this company contracts, bewildering. Not.

Here we go.

This statement says it all
Quote 'My family has been well looked after'
We can't keep paying for these people - sad but it's about time we put ourselves first!!

Course the council have looked after them because the don't fare not to. But they don't look after their own people and people like travellers who are british citizens. Absoloute joke about time this country started looking after its own instead of everybody else!

Course the council have looked after them because the don't dare not to. But they don't look after their own people and people like travellers who are british citizens. Absolute joke about time this country started looking after its own instead of everybody else!

mavrick wrote:
I have no problem with genuine refugees, but I have a big problem with a private company doing a public service. How much is Serco charging the taxpayer for their second rate services, you only have to ask anyone who has had any dealings with this company their experiences were not good. So I wonder why the government keeps giving this company contracts, bewildering. Not.

It would be interesting to know how many decision makers, right from the top down have shares in Serco or companies like Serco?

Why always GB? Asylum should be sought in the 1st port off call, when did the UK become 1st port from middle east? etc.
Send them all back to the 1st country they arrived and STOP being affraid to say NO! to these people. the country is full we have no room for our own people let alone scroungers from the continent.
What a joke

I weep with the compassion and concern shown by many of the posts here. Empathy is learned and understood only through intelligent self- reflection.

It seems that many of the posts are simply spewing forth the same ill conceived, poorly constructed and vacuous bile that one comes to expect from those with a small and feeble mindset.

Miss_Redd wrote:
I weep with the compassion and concern shown by many of the posts here. Empathy is learned and understood only through intelligent self- reflection.

It seems that many of the posts are simply spewing forth the same ill conceived, poorly constructed and vacuous bile that one comes to expect from those with a small and feeble mindset.

I would save my tears for the elderly and poverty stricken people from this country first.......

Mikeee47 wrote:
Why always GB? Asylum should be sought in the 1st port off call, when did the UK become 1st port from middle east? etc.
Send them all back to the 1st country they arrived and STOP being affraid to say NO! to these people. the country is full we have no room for our own people let alone scroungers from the continent.
What a joke

It isn't. The Syrian uprising has casued an estimated 150 000 refugees. Almost all of them have gone to Jordan, the Lebanon and Turkey. Hardly any have come to Britain.

There are around 25 000 asylum seeker applications to the UK a year, so Jordan, the lebanon and Turkey have taken 6 times as many refugees as the UK in the last year.

....& the local indigenous population are never asked if they want these people. They are never asked if they mind that their council taxes are used to support these people. They are never asked if they mind that local indigenous people are put further down the housing lists so these people can be accomodated quickly. They are never asked if they mind that an already stretched health service (paid for by tax payers) can be stretched a bit more.

No. The local indigenous population is NEVER asked because they know what the answer will be.....NO THANKS.

....& still the powers-that-be plan to burden us with yet more of the same.

WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AFTER OUR OWN ELDERLY, POOR & VULNERABLE FIRST!

When you see the slaughter of innocent people in Syria and we just stand by, It makes me wonder why the local Muslim voices are so silent? perhaps they are the wrong sort of Muslims.

Excluded again wrote:

Mikeee47 wrote:
Why always GB? Asylum should be sought in the 1st port off call, when did the UK become 1st port from middle east? etc.
Send them all back to the 1st country they arrived and STOP being affraid to say NO! to these people. the country is full we have no room for our own people let alone scroungers from the continent.
What a joke

It isn't. The Syrian uprising has casued an estimated 150 000 refugees. Almost all of them have gone to Jordan, the Lebanon and Turkey. Hardly any have come to Britain.

There are around 25 000 asylum seeker applications to the UK a year, so Jordan, the lebanon and Turkey have taken 6 times as many refugees as the UK in the last year.

"There are around 25 000 asylum seeker applications to the UK a year"

Do these Asylum seekers come from Holland, Belgium, France or Ireland.

The rules of Asylum (internationally recognised) are that you go to the FIRST SAFE COUNTRY.

Correct me if im wrong but these people have travelled half way around the world to get here.

They have chosen to pass through many many safe countries.

Unless they are are nationals from Holland, Belgium, France or Ireland, fleeing genuine persecution, then they should be sent back to "safe" France.

BRITAIN IS FULL

BRITAIN IS FULL AND SKINT

Madari the snake charmer says:

Quote:`>>>the council have rally looked after me and solved my problems..`

I wish someone from the council could come and solve my problems for a start they could help pay my council tax bill......

Quote:..Ive got a nice house on Whalley range...` (for free no doubt)I wish the council would provide me with free accomodation...These are crooks milking the system and should not be rewarded but put in JaiL
SEND THE SCROUNGERS BACK!!!

Miss_Redd wrote:
I weep with the compassion and concern shown by many of the posts here. Empathy is learned and understood only through intelligent self- reflection.

It seems that many of the posts are simply spewing forth the same ill conceived, poorly constructed and vacuous bile that one comes to expect from those with a small and feeble mindset.

I think the feeble minded are the likes of yourself that think we are here to let all and sundry in to live off us while our own are treated like crap .As Alf says particularly our own older people. These asylum seekers have passed through many safe countries to get to us because they know they get more from us.
How many of our own can say they have got nice houses all due to the council. Many of our own are on council house waiting lists . Why are these people put first ???
They should all be deported !!

I have empathy with people who are being persecuted in their own country. However, I agree with Burnleyglentoran that none of these aslyum seekers have arrived in this country as the first safe country they have reached after leaving their own.
How many thousands are sat on the coast of France just waiting for an opportunity to get to England? France is a safe country so they should be claiming asylum there. Why do they want to continue their journey to England? Because we give them everything they need and more for free while our own people go without jobs, homes and even food ins some instances. How morally bereft is a country that ignores its own in favour of helping others. Isn't charity supposed to begin at home?
How many of the do gooders on here would help out a stranger by providing everything they need while ignoring the needs of their own children, mother, father etc?

The answer is for the do gooders to pay for all the asylum seekers needs out of their own pockets .Lets see how many would want them here then !
It,s quite obvious most of us do not want any more and as an island they have to pass through safe countries to get here so we should have none.

Any genuinely persecuted person that is coming to this country to work and make a better life for themselves .... I say Welcome.

I dont have any money because almost everything goes in Tax/housing/bills like all the other ordinary working people of this country.

So you will have to get a job (good luck there) and support yourself and when you prove you can do that, then and only then, can you bring over your family;
because after all I have done that all of my adult life and never got a penny from no one for nothing; even when I was out of work; and even after I had paid taxes and stamps for over 30 years.... mainly because I am the wrong colour according to the off-the record comments at the social!!!

So I say;

god bless;

the middle class politicians/do gooders who are the ones that actually make the laws which make sure we are the only country in europe that gives so much out to those who have contributed nothing.... and of course they are sitting on extremely well paid quangos and directorships that get grants from the government (their school chums) to actually make a nice earner out of the asyslum system and of course who, as we are seeing have many ways to avoid paying tax .... so not actually having to pay for the multi-cultural society that they dont actually live in because of course dont live in areas which are; how shall we put this; not noted for their ethnic diversity.

Jack; you cynical old thing!

Same old story - charity does not begin at home. There must be many families in Blackburn alone who are struggling because of all the cut-backs. Should the council not look to helping these people first? Wish I could go to another country and get all that is offered to the aslyum seekers who end up in the UK. As has been said, how many countries have they bypassed to get to get here.

There will be some families living in this borough who might not know where there next meal will come from - IS THIS JUST AND FAIR?

Although I agree with most points raised in the posts.There are a few that have been missed, we are in 2012 quite a few relate many years back.Which safe place have they been living since these dates. What is the total number coming to UK, perhaps LT can find numbers under fredom of information. Perhaps honest Jack can give figures as by dates given it happened on his watch. On Fake Britain HM Border Forces have proved where some of these so called refugees have actually come from,is an eyeopener.Addition cost translating providing translators medical the list just grows and grows. No doubt money will be saved reducing our own OAPs money. Who have worked paid into a system that these never have or I doubt ever will.

700 asylum seekers in a small northern town..How many are there nationwide??? no wonder this country`s no money for its own people.

Boring! Has nobody got anything new to say that is not racist or ill informed?

Spare a thought for my plight. I went away for the weekend and my house was burgled four times. My dog just let any old sod past him the whole time without even seeing them.

Last time I buy one of those HM Border Collie's.

Determined effort for several months by the British Red Cross and the Ummah Islamic Aid and more importantly public generosity, donating towards a cause reaching the needed, wisely and generously resulting in family lives being saved and the injured treated back to recovery. Months of hard work despite being restricted access to thousands of Christians and Sunni Muslims, eventual goal and achievment is being accomplished.
The brutal regime focused solely on their political ambition continue to proceed with their understanding of the 'Damascus Coming'. Whether a false myth or a jigsaw piece being placed in it's correct place, Shia belief to continue regardless, thousands of innocent lives are being destroyed.
Charities should and must continue in their scope, and further public request for donations, to save lives and shelter the oppressed.

Paul .None of the comments are racist .Just common sense and about looking after our own with our own money .

Sorry re the dog .

Paul The Octopus Lives! wrote:
Boring! Has nobody got anything new to say that is not racist or ill informed?

Spare a thought for my plight. I went away for the weekend and my house was burgled four times. My dog just let any old sod past him the whole time without even seeing them.

Last time I buy one of those HM Border Collie's.

Now that gets my sympathy! Excellent post. You can basically set your watch to what the posts are going to sound like regarding topics such as these.

sen c ble wrote:
Determined effort for several months by the British Red Cross and the Ummah Islamic Aid and more importantly public generosity, donating towards a cause reaching the needed, wisely and generously resulting in family lives being saved and the injured treated back to recovery. Months of hard work despite being restricted access to thousands of Christians and Sunni Muslims, eventual goal and achievment is being accomplished.
The brutal regime focused solely on their political ambition continue to proceed with their understanding of the 'Damascus Coming'. Whether a false myth or a jigsaw piece being placed in it's correct place, Shia belief to continue regardless, thousands of innocent lives are being destroyed.
Charities should and must continue in their scope, and further public request for donations, to save lives and shelter the oppressed.

Is this not what the west wants to happen? after all we are very happy to supply them all the arms they need regardless of who they are, maybe it's a way to keep the numbers down whilst making a quid.

Think you should look at the poll results Miss Redd . A massive vote against you and your ilk i am very pleased to say.

I watched my mothers life savings being given to an excellent old folks home whilst she had Dementai, £1461 a moth to be looked after because she had saved every penny all her life, I hope her contributions help these people come through five or six country's to get here and claim PA, when will the politicians start helping US not Not these poor people who have traveled through all these safe country's just to get here,
I wonder why they want to come here? My guess is

££££££££££
£

Miss_Redd wrote:
I weep with the compassion and concern shown by many of the posts here. Empathy is learned and understood only through intelligent self- reflection.

It seems that many of the posts are simply spewing forth the same ill conceived, poorly constructed and vacuous bile that one comes to expect from those with a small and feeble mindset.

post your address love. and next time i am in calais i will pass on your compassion.b and b at your expense no doubt.

Why are these people being evicted from their homes? The council was one of six providers under the previous contract, not the accommodator, the accommodation was provided by the housing association. I understand from the press reports Serco is willing to continue paying the accommodation and other costs as before. Yet the council is giving directions to the housing association to evict these people from their homes, under the falsehood that they have lost the contract and with it goes the accommodation.

Evicted ! they should be deported .