I’ve mulled over posting this for months now. But yesterday it came to a head. And I’m aware that the people who need to see it will either not be here, or will suggest that I’m lying.
I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention
This is a great thread Neil; thanks for posting. Also, the responses I’ve read on here have restored a little bit of my faith in humanity, and reminded me that the gammon are not the majority. Thank you everyone - peace and love to you all xxx☮️❤️🙏☺️✌️🕊️🧘♂️🪷
This is the only time I've been affected by the small boat issue, notwithstanding the odd anti- immigrant protest. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_f...
I can't add to this thread Neil, but it absolutely says everything I think and believe. Thank you x
This banger of a post is why I still keep coming back here 😘
Good for you for saying this Neil - yeah I want my country back from them too.
Thanks for posting this. Some people just don't understand. I was privy to an argument recently where someone was trotting out the usual tropes to a person who'd actually been through the immigration process with their partner.
Still wouldn't believe them.
Insanity.
I saw a clip of this on BBC NW they seemed quickly cut off the story when it showed the police starting to shove some of the agressors back. Even more suspicious that no media has any reports on it. This likely means the protest was a riot and that side are going to look bad.
We have the same situation an old hotel that was abandoned used to home asylum seekers, not a second of problems from them - spoke to an old man who was going there and needed directions and his main concern was would the people running the hotel be nice
I read an interesting article about asylum accommodation in rural Ireland and how the introduction of lots of young men with nothing to do disrupted the town and made people feel unsafe... for a bit until everyone got used to it. Its ok to recognise that increased numbers of asylum seekers has an
Thank you for sharing your positive experiences with asylum seekers Neil. Very much appreciated. 🕊️🙏
The grooming and radicalising of these people has been enabled by our media allowing the far right and racists a platform Hold them all to account How do we go about de-radicalistation and education? Remember the furore when Shemima Begum was radicalised? This is NO different
Nice one, pal 🙌🏻
Thank you for posting this. Sadly, the people who need to hear this wouldn't be able to understand it, or would refuse to even hear it. The world is in so much trouble right now.
Bigotry receives permission through kindness. Force is the only effective mitigation against hate.
...the Guardian... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
People have formed networks of practical support in response to the growing numbers of migrants seeking help
Outstanding thread mate...exactly what thr press should be talking about!!
Great thread - echoes my experience!
On reflection, the asylum seekers have no choice about where they are placed. If people really wanted to make a difference, they should protest to the people making the decisions - the Home Office and the companies contracted to source accommodation for them!
Thank you for sharing this, these people are scumbags as proved by the 62% of them at one of the last incidents being convicted of domestic abuse
It seems the racists are organising to intimidate the refugees sadly. Their rhetoric is stomach churning.
Taking it from your name, and without asking you to dox yourself, was this one in Stockport? I ask as there's a hotel very near where my daughter lives that has been subject of "protests" before.
My views are exactly the same as yours. I think you're right to focus on the appalling behaviour of a sector of society that has almost flown under the radar, the feral, under-educated cannon fodder for Farage. They are the real risk to this country, not immigrants.
Neil recommend the work of Hope and Courage hopeandcourage.ie
really good resources on battling popup hate and extremism space and working communities also
Thank you for posting your experiences. These things need to be said.
🤔 I sometimes wonder if the "people with legitimate concerns" are direct descendants of the yobs and football hooligans who used to vandalise railway carriages in the years when I was young.
All credit to you.
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Thanks for sharing this and eloquently putting into words what many of us think!
Excellent post mate. Thanks for sharing your experience, and yes I too want my country back from racist white thugs
I was on LBC talking to nick Ferrari about a migrant hotel being near us. I explained they used local facilities, then came to the beach and I said. You know what they did Nick? They played cricket. He laughed thought I was pulling his leg. The media vultures need to be put straight.
This is it. These mobs are rampaging around and causing massive fear, intimidation and damage in the name of “protecting” an England that never even existed - it’s all a revisionist mythology. They’re so ingrained their crappy lives are someone else’s fault - they punch down instead of rising up.
I'm a trustee of a Refugee support charity.
Neil, I'm really grateful for you posting this thread. The truth about asylum and refugees needs to be broadcast far more widely, the volume of prejudiced rubbish across the media drowns everything else out.
I was troubled by the Conservative Mayor of Epping who explained that there were valid cultural and historic reasons why it shouldn't have to accommodate immigrants. Turns out his "cultural & historic reasons" were a large National Front membership there in the past! I suspect he was one such member
Thank you for posting this thread. 💐
Very sensible not to post. But now that this has happened, a good idea to let as many of us as possible know just what’s happening. Thank you for the thread.
Thanks for the thread. Over recent years we have hosted asylum seekers from different countries - Iran, Sudan, Nigeria, Guinea, Bangladesh, Palestine, Malaysia - plus Ukrainians. All have been honest & trustworthy. I am sure there may be 'rotten apples' just as there are among UK-born people
A righteous thread, Neil. It's so important that people relate their personal experience of these roving thugs. Thank you. 👏👏👏
Excellent thread and a true reflection of the sad reality of this country.
The country we love is compassionate, unafraid of difference and celebrates its diverse community.
And it’s being stolen from us by a noisy minority who stir up anger and enable the violent to wage their war for them.
Anyone who thinks these low rent brownshirts care about the UK is a cretinous bawbag.
The real invaders are foreign owned media billionaires subverting UK democracy by inciting division and hatred. Starmer hasn't the minerals to take them on.
Wondered what your point was until I read your thread.
Thank u for that. Gold ⭐ like! It's lovely to hear from the sane, compassionate side of humanity. Thank u.
So that the local idiots with their ‘legitimate concerns’ could come along and ‘protect are wimmin n gurlz’
Despite being on alert, and having had the police protecting it on a couple of occasions, nothing has previously occurred there.
Yesterday that day happened.
We all need to stand up to these thugs
Far-right protest in Falkirk met by anti-racism counter-demo outside asylum hotel www.thenational.scot/news/2539528...
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Counter-protesters have faced-off a far-right demonstration in Falkirk, outside of a former hotel housing asylum seekers
Well said Neil. I went to school is Stocky! Nice pic of the Cage there 😀
These sound like 'legitimate concerns' so you should get hours of airtime on major news channels, right?
People want to earn money.. and PAY TAX. More than Jeremy Clarkson is willing to do.
Largely, people arriving are in good health and won’t put undue pressure on the NHS. We have a huge skills and jobs gap, we need people, to generate tax, to pay for our problematic aged population. 🤷🏼♀️
There is more risk to the local community from knuckle dragging racists travelling to protest than than asylum seekers who are terrified to leave their rooms
Its not your fault. Asylum seekers have to go somewhere. If the Tories hadn't stopped processing claims none of them would be in accommodation now. I don't say hotels because they are no longer hotels.
Have read the thread and wholeheartedly agree. Sadly I work with some people with similar views
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One answer is this: GET OUT AND VOTE.
The morons on the right are motivated. They have numbers and they are bullies and they are MOTIVATED. They bank on two things: creeping prejudice from people in the middle, and the opposition to their sub-human beliefs assuming
Well said Neil.
Thank you for posting this!
Thank you for sharing something positive about asylum seekers. My experience matches yours and I abhor the racist bashing of vulnerable people.
Thanks for posting this. Power to you.
In Birkenhead park, a young girl was upset that a man was filming her and her baby. She reported it and police detained him. They said he was white British and Wirral born. She had posted on fb that he 'looked Arabic'. Cue the 'send them back', 'stop the boats', and 'it's gone too far' comments.
Drunk white men are the biggest danger in our society.
Very well said Neil.
Thanks for sharing Neil👍✌️
Are you in Epping? Not challenging just genuinely interested as some loved ones are from there. Horrible times.
Thank you for posting your really good thread. So good to read about your positive experience. At the over 50s club I go to, we have lovely volunteers who are refugees who help out. Everyone in the club welcomes them and they join in. Several years ago i was in an open air dance production.
It’s a great thread and I’m sorry you have to deal with thug racists in your neighbourhood. No one can reason with them as they are beyond reason. Tice Robinson & Farage the stirring bastards stir and stir the pot and then watch the anarchy boil. I truly despair for the future of this country.
Well said sir.
Great post Neil. Say it loud & far, but as you say, those who we want to read & understand this won’t get read or hear the message.
👏 Hi Neil, well said & it needed saying, the only population I find very odious to co exist with are the generational bigoted who the trouble making Nigel Farage is exploiting for his own ends.
I also live near a hotel housing asylum seekers. We've had an armed robbery on the village shop, another on a pub, a stolen car hit and run which killed a woman, an arson on an empty building, car thefts and a cannabis factory. And do you know how many of the perpetrators were asylum seekers? None.
Thanks for this Neil
Thanks for posting this, some truth to counter the mobs outrage about problems that don’t exist, sadly the closed minded morons don’t want to hear truth!
Sorry, I accidentally tapped report post button and don’t see unreport button. It was a mistake. I’’m glad you posted this thread.
Thank you for your post. It just shows where the real danger lies.
Thank you for a great post. Spot on. 👏
Well said Neil. I don’t particularly want any attention on me either. This morning I fell into conversation with someone in a counter-protest group near the local ‘asylum hotel’ as a ‘patriots’ demo was beginning, ended up having to take a stand and joining them. Got abused by a handful. Worth it.
I posted the other day I found out I'd be living about 200 yards from a hotel housing asylum seekers for over 12 months and never knew it . No murders, muggings or rapes. I only found out when the local press put an article about it online and thousands of illiterate dickheads commented.
The far right came to protest at Erskine, the local ringleader was a complete racist going by her facebook, and PA / Homeland protesters many with convictions including firearms offences all from out-with the area to keep us safe from the polite shellshocked refugees.
That’s terrible Neil. I’m glad you and your family are safe. These people are fucking awful. 😞
Well posted, Neil. We all stand with you. All the best.
