Immigration hotel costs
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There absolutely is such a thing as immigration related hotel costs, which the Home Office formally refers to as hotel accommodation for asylum seekers, funded through the asylum support system under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
These costs are real, substantial and directly tied to immigration policy. While the phrase may be informal, it accurately reflects a documented government expense. It is no different from saying “benefits spending” instead of “Department for Work and Pensions expenditure on Universal Credit”.
Using plain language to describe public spending is not xenophobic, it is how people engage with policy in everyday terms.
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congratulations everyone on reaching page 5 on this thread. Congratulations to @Passerby for being the first person to post on page 5 on this thread.
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I was out on this thread but some things just boil my urine
Care to elaborate how saying those words are xenophobic or racist ?
It's an opinion … of which under the Human Rights Act article 10 is protected they are allowed to have and express
Wake up and smell the coffee … not everything said is ic or ist
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My sister divorced a chap after 30 years - who lived/s in Weymouth - she liked the area and decided to buy her own house on Portland !
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Nothing I have read here has been " xenophobic or racist" just people expressing difference of opinion.
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I fully agree with you, luvpink. There is a critical distinction between prejudice and policy scrutiny. The former demands unequivocal challenge, the latter is foundational to democratic accountability. When fiscal interrogation is reflexively pathologised, performative outrage displaces evidence led governance.
The public’s right to examine how resources are deployed matters just as much, and whether they uphold structural integrity and public value for both the taxpayer and those accommodated under the asylum support provision. When scrutiny is mischaracterised as hostility, the integrity of policy making is compromised.
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Are you sure they not just snarled up? That has happened to me a couple of times.
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The comment from durhamjaide2001 was a simple note on thread length, congratulating you on being the first to post this morning. She has not contributed to the asylum debate. Misfiring accusations like this don’t expose harmful narratives, they expose a failure to read and a readiness to be unpleasant without cause. I hope you’ll offer her an apology.
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For clarity, my earlier comment was not an attempt to ‘lecture’ you on the broader rights or wrongs of the asylum debate.
It addressed a single, factual point. durhamjaide2001’s post was her routine page‑count remark, entirely unrelated to the asylum discussion.
Given that your response, in the post where you tagged her, stated 'Therefore, if you think blabbering on about asylum seeker hotels on Scope would make you feel happy, go for it and don't stop your futile rants until you reach page 100' while quoting her congratulatory comment about reaching page 5, it is difficult to see how it was not aimed at her. Tagging usually indicates a direct reply.
The fair and reasonable course now is to acknowledge the misunderstanding and offer an apology, so the matter can be closed without continuing to involve a member who was never part of the asylum debate.
Misunderstandings happen, which is why I prefer to base responses on what has been explicitly said, rather than on assumptions about a member’s intent.
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It's that French bloke again, shouldn't he self-deport?
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