How many of the british public are willing to accommodate refugees?

Question

Like myself, how many of you would lend a room, food and assistance with health care and support to an asylum seeker or refugee in your community ? I am by no means a wealthy person but have successfully managed to help, and to accommodate and provide support for three individuals at present. Is it therefore acceptable that the british public are well able to assist and they along with churches should do so ? This problem is everyone's humane responsibility ?

Answer 1

I have no personal experience in the matter since I had never been  to Britain but as I learn from friends who had gone there I find that common Briisher has nothing  against him.In fact  there is   even an amusing at titude among some old guards of the imperial days that they have a moral responsibility to accommodate them as British subjects. Technically speaking all Comonwealth residents are subjects of the Queen who is the symbolic head of the Commonwelth. Of course there is some natural heartburn among some on the erroneous presumption that the immigrants are robbiungthem of employment. However, as the phenomenon of outsourcing has shown that there is some work which it is not economic for the British to do themselves The immitrats have no sch    reservations and are thus a long felt want automatically satisfied. By and large they are getting along nicely.If anthing   Britishers are not Britishers if they are not practical.

Answer 2

Here's a better idea instead of wasting billions of £ and peoples lives fighting wars the people do not want to fight...

Why don't they use that money to build council housing to replace the Tories flogged off to keep their taxes down..?

Then we can stop crippling the councils with private landlord payments. House prices will fall in line with peoples wages again.

And maybe we will be in a position to help house refugees then..?

Seems pretty obvious to me and just about everyone I talk to from bin men (no offence intended) to Directors (no offence intended)

We sort our country first we have scores of disaffected youths involved in drugs prostitution guns gangs. Social segregation and racial hatred bubbling in the couldron.

The house of great britain needs putting in order before civic unrest turns into anarchy.

Answer 3

if they had not taken most of the jobs that my partner has been applying for lately we would perhaps have enough money to think about what you are saying LOOK AFTER YOUR OWN FIRST. I SAT AND WATCHED ONE OF THOSE COPS ON CAMERA PROGRAMS a couple of weeks ago not one of the people arrested was British funny A?

Answer 4

Send them back not our problem !!! 2 many of them over here stealing al council houses and english people like me that has no were to live get told 2 fook off because immagrints get 1st priority on houses ! it makes me so mad im 100% english born and bred geordie but i get refused and they get the house X-(

Answer 5

I wouldn't allow any one of them into my domain.

It is mine, I have worked hard for many years to provide a home for myself, wife and family and will certainly not share it.

This problem as you say is not everyone's problem, it is their problem.  

A Cecil Rhodes (Of Rhodesia fame)  once said, "To be born an Englishman is to have come first in the human race".   What a wonderful thing to say and  so true.

Answer 6

You are an excellent example of practical help but not all of us are as brave as you.  I also have the example of my brother who died of stress whilst long term homeless even though he was British born and bred, in full time work and ex-Army (at senior NCO level), because he lived near a port with lots of illegals being dumped on it and he was too proud to draw attention to his plight.

Be careful not all "refugees" deserve that honourable title!

Answer 7

I certainly would if I had the means to do it.

Answer 8

I wouldn't.

Why should Britain look after someone else problem, which by international law does have to take asylum seeker from any country except those bordering it, whilst there are British people still suffering. The British should look after there own first.

I also wouldn't trust an asylum seeker as they tend to be mini crime waves, police words not mine, and violent crime rates have shot up in area of high asylum seekers.

Why don't we just call asylum seeker by there true name illegal immigrants. Most of them aren't here for the reason they claim to be, if you were worried about getting murdered in your own home would you really cross several safe countries to reach the UK or who you be happy in the first safe place you found yourself in? What is that bad about France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Holland, etc?

Answer 9

France has a similar sized population to the UK, but twice the land area.

So It makes sense for all refugees arriving in Europe to be housed in France.

Answer 10

It is not appropriate for individuals to look after these vulnerable people. Under the UN Convention, it is the government's duty to look after refugees and asylum seekers and this work is best done by specialist staff. By all means donate goods, money or your time to help in projects, but don't take on a vulnerable person yourself.

Answer 11

Tough one to answer. I personally feel that our entitlement and welfare system encourages people to come to this country and seek 'asylum' and needs to be radically changed. I also feel heartfelt sorrow for people who have suffered from potentially oppressive foreign regimes, and don't like to see any human being struggle. If I had a free room I would be hesitant to help someone as I don't know them and they could potentially be dangerous, but I admire those that do. Put simply, I feel the resentment that is directed towards asylum seekers is due to the entitlements they are given- if someone comes here looking to work then its a different story (but is still not always desirable due to language and cultural barriers). I know that wasn't exactly the question, but its how many will maybe choose to answer it.

Answer 12

I would not lend a hand, foot or anything else to an asylum seeker, this is a term used nowadays by a majority of people who want to come to this country because there are so many stupid people like you who believe they're sob stories. Perhaps if you visited some of the places they have Actually come from and see how they are taught to tell stories of how bad they're lives have been, you'd realise that these people are scum out for what they can get.

They have seen how to do it from when genuine people needed help and have jumped on the band wagon with their tales of woe.

The problem is certainly not mine and is definatley not my responsibility to believe lying, cheating scum. I'll leave that to the likes of you, mugs everywhere.

Answer 13

No chance

Answer 14

I've done this too.

I think you are wrong to pick on the church though.

Look at some of the answers here - it's closed-mindedness you are up against.

Maybe direct your anger at the sort of people who seek to whip up racial unrest.

Not all of them are thickies like most of the people you will get responding to this.

Start with the Dail Mail and also Rupert Murdoch.

Answer 15

I definately wouldnt, We need to start looking after our own citizens,there are plenty of people from our own country in very desperate need,they should take priority

Answer 16

I am NOT willing to help these people at all.

sorry but charity begins at home and i look after my own first and formost.

Answer 17

I wouldn't!

Answer 18

Well done you. You must be so proud of yourself. I recommend you contact your MP and ask what he is prepared to do in similar circumstances and what he/she is going to do in the house to determine how much society should be assisting refugees.

Answer 19

well, your in a minority... why would WE want to offer shelterr to refugees, arent they given the gold key to paradise when they goto the dole office...and the social security... and and and... these refugees are treated better than the govt treats its own VOTING TAXPAYERS...

my humane responsibility is to England, and my community...

these people walked hundreds and hundreds of miles to get here, they suffered enduring hardships and shelled out thousands to hide in the back of a truck...

what the h**l do they need help with?