Our council is spending a fortune in money and resources to house refugees from Ukraine.
A few questions are begged.
1. Surely Ukraine provides enough 'safe havens' without displaced people having to travel thousands of miles to live in Kensington & Chelsea?
2. When peace inevitably arrives will these people expect to stay on?
3. Why should K&C bear this burden: it is the most stretched of councils with long housing waiting lists.
4. The Dame hears some of those are 'refugees' from Ukrainian conscription.
Any refugee should have been told to make his/her way to areas of the UK with less housing stress.
Finally, is the council proposing to open its arms to Russian refugees from Kursk?
It's the sort of idiotic PR stunt the £170k a year head of comms might well put up to Cllr Campbell.
There is no risk to 95% of the Ukrainians residing in this country. Many of them are well-off, highly educated, middle class families who have exploited the situation in Ukraine in order to come to the UK for better job opportunities (under the guise of their refugee status).
ReplyDeleteIt is quite telling that they were all able to find sponsors in very wealthy areas when no such scheme has ever existed for refugees from any other country before.
Much of Kyiv is thriving with bars, restaurants and shops open very late into the night and Lamborghinis speeding through the streets at all hours. If Ukraine is so unsafe why are so many people going back there on holiday, or for family visits every few months? There were even reports of Ukrainians going back because they didn’t enjoy the English lifestyle. The truth is that they are using England (mostly the wealthy areas of London) as a pit stop to enlarge their bank balances before their visas expire, at which point they will return to Ukraine and reap the rewards of their unjust riches. It is a national scandal and virtually guaranteed that no other refugees (apart from the similarly wealthy ones from Hong Kong) have ever been given such special treatment in this country. If the Ukrainians and Hong Kongers deserve the best, why not the Syrians and Iraqis who experienced much worse at the hands of the UK and USA? Absolutely shameful.