Green light for Piddington!

Asylum seekers will either be accommodated on existing MoD land or in hotels, existing and purpose built accommodation in suburban areas. Personally I think MoD accommodation is the best option. Upgrades won’t be wasted public money, it will be an investment in the future of the sites, many of which have been allowed to become extremely run down.

We cannot stop people seeking asylum coming to the UK, whatever political rhetoric people would prefer to believe, and something had to be done.

Perhaps we should put them in hotels after all if we can't gun them down on the beaches when they arrive.

These threads sicken me...

If it's the cheapest option then it should go ahead. Nobody wants this but it has to be dealt with and some people will be unhappy.
It isn't fair to send asylum seekers to the same towns where there are already many staying there.

The estimated cost to convert and upgrade the former military site (MoD Bicester) near Piddington, Oxfordshire, into an asylum accommodation facility is £250 million (with estimates scaling up to approximately £269.7 million when adjusted for inflation). Additionally, the Home Office has awarded a £3.4 million contract to design the site.

This is the cost of converting this Piddington site. Utterly unbelievable.

It’s no surprise to me at all. It’s the cheapest option, the accommodation was already there, and if you live near a military base (I do too) you already know that the use of it is something you have absolutely no say about.

Can’t they move some refugees into Downing Street or put up a few in spare rooms at Chequers ? Only fair, after all.

It’s absolutely appalling. But as Burnham and Raynor have said ‘ we’ve all got to take our fair share. Oh hang on, nobody voted for this crap!