Thursday, 24 July 2025

Life of Riley.


This very exclusive 4 Star hotel in London's fashionable Canary Wharf, is to become the next home to illegal immigrants.

We are all aware that by far the majority of people who come here illegally, from the Middle East or Africa, are not 'refugees' but economic migrants. And they are arriving in alarming numbers to take advantage of our crazy generosity. There are estimated to be around 750,000 at the moment.

The Britannia Hotel, which normally costs over £200 per night per person, is being rented in its 'entirety' by The Home Office, and will make the owner very rich indeed. No doubt an agreement has also been made for a total refurbishment to be undertaken when eventually the 'refugees' all leave (if they ever do).


I can assure you that I cannot afford to live in the lifestyle of these immigrants. Having paid some scoundrel £Thousands to cross the channel in a rubber boat, they are then given free food and luxury accommodation, a certain amount of spending money on an 'ASPEN Card', and occasionally even a free mobile phone. It's a pretty good life, that WE all have to pay for. 

Of course none of this is an excuse for rioting, but we're mid-Summer and it's the season for stone-throwing and insult-flinging, and there are plenty of people out there who intend to make trouble. I believe that the infamous Tommy Robinson will be joining them today, which will only make things worse.

I was listening to a very angry man on the radio last night. He was 65 years old, had worked all his life until illness forced him to stop, and he lost his flat. For the past 3 years he has been living in his car and has been waiting for some form of 'social housing', with no luck.

However, he sees foreigners arriving by boat daily, who are instantly given rooms in luxury hotels. He was extremely angry, and we can all understand why.

19 comments:

  1. I doubt very much that the Home Office will pay £200/night per person. The hotel, most likely not fully occupied throughout the year, will hardly provide room service and fresh towels every five minutes.

    I can't claim I know the ins and outs of the arrivals you are referring to. All I know it's a conundrum that many European countries face - on both an ethical and a moral level.

    Reminds me of Mary and Joseph asking the inn keeper for shelter. He showed them the barn. Maybe, Cro, rather than lamenting some resemblance to hospitality, you should be proud to be a citizen of a country that does give shelter whilst checking out each arrival on their merit.

    Life of the mysterious Riley? I doubt it.

    U

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    1. I am extremely proud of the UK's record in helping those in need, but you know (as do we all) that we are being taken for a ride by people who are simply after our money, and the freedoms that we offer. Don't be too eager to defend what is happening; it'll get a lot worse and people will get even more upset.

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    2. I am not defending anything. All I advise is calm. You may remember how Angela Merkel got herself into hot waters. I admired her "Wir schaffen das schon", loosely translated "We'll manage" when Germany was overrun with migrants.

      I don't know, Cro. All I do know that people do find themselves in circumstances not of their making or ill intent. Who are we, in the comfortable Western CIVILIZED world, to judge those whose individual plight we don't know? Shoes, walk in another's, springs to mind.

      U

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    3. I am simply lighting a warning beacon; there are troubled times ahead, but I shall be standing aside and watching. I do NOT condone riotous protest.

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  2. For those who are not bona fide asylum seekers but just young economic migrants, I would stick them in cabins on disused cruise ships moored off Southampton. They would not be allowed off the ships and would simply be there awaiting deportation. Meals would be cheap and basic.

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    1. I don't really have much of an opinion about these people, but I do know that a high percentage of the British people are getting very annoyed. Maybe some old ship in The North Sea could contain them?

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    2. There's an idea...use a container ship! I'm a mad as anyone else about all these illegral migrants, they're having us on and it's not fair to our own homeless people, particularly ex-service people. I saw a piece on the campers on Park Lane, what a mess and none of them wanted to talk to reporters, covering their faces and hurling abuse. And as for Calais, I feel really sorry for the Calais residents having to put up with all this. We need somebody with gumption to say 'No, if you come to the uk you're NOT getting free hotels, money, phones etc and you'll be sent back to from whence you came!" But nobody's going to do it are they...?

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    3. I fear it's all too late now, and the British people themselves are going to have their say. If you fail to deal with a problem whilst it's still in its infancy, then there will always be serious problems later on. I think we're about to witness as much.

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  3. Never mind…Nige will sort it all out come the next election.

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  4. Concord, Massachusetts was putting homeless people in a Motel. Nothing like the oceanfront accommodation you highlight. They also set time limits on a stay. The entire thing might be shut down now. It has been very low profile.
    Personally, I feel anyone entering a new country should have a job and a sponsor.

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    1. I had a friend who lived and worked in Dubai. They had a lot of Indian workers there, who all had to have a 'job and a sponsor'. Occasionally they would run off, and the sponsor would be in trouble.

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    2. I would hold Dubai up as a good example. It’s human right record is appalling.

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    3. Oh lord! *wouldn’t and *its….hangs head in shame

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    4. We all type too fast, and fail to check!

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  5. The fact is that the British people have always been generous and the first to put their hands in their pockets when there are disasters etc etc. We are a generous bunch!

    However, people are now questioning why the govt gives priority to those coming into this country when we have so many of our own people living here who are struggling, homeless and poor.

    And we are a country with massive debt! Was money no object then it would be a different matter! But with the best will in the world , we simply cannot accommodate everyone. And it’s therefore quite understandable that our own people are becoming frustrated and angry. Many coming across the channel are coming here illegally and many don’t live by the same code as we do, which is another problem.

    A big problem is that we’ve got to the point whereby anyone coming into this country is tarred by the same brush, regardless of whether they are well behaved, decent human beings. So we now have some of our own citizens who aren’t thinking rationally and are taking the law into their own hands. And it’s easy to grasp why!

    Our govt and the previous govt are each to blame for this situation. And the more they allow it to continue, the more we are heading towards more protests, riots… and civil war!

    At the end of the day, yes, we obviously have a moral duty to look after those who have escaped from evil regimes but we also have a moral duty to care for our own people!

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    1. You've summed it up far better than I could have. We're now in a situation that should have been addressed decades ago. We've been far too generous for years, which was not a bad thing, but we should have been more aware of the consequences. Being generous isn't always the best solution; as we're now seeing.

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  6. I haven’t got much to say at the moment cro, but I’m still reading xx

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