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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 8, 2023 14:36:15 GMT
Life in London's 'shanty town': How Labour council is charging £1,560-a-month for old shipping containers piled up in a rundown estate rife with drug gangs. It would seem containers are fine for our own homeless, but at a cost of £7 million a day, illegals are bussed to 3,4 & 5 star hotels. link |
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 8, 2023 16:08:32 GMT
I've just listened to a 'resident' being interviewed in one those container homes in Marston Green, Ealing. It's pretty grim, a single mum with her four year old daughter live in a 1 bed 20 ft container. She said it's cold in the winter and hot in the summer, there is no oven, just a two ring hob, there is no running hot water she uses a kettle to boil water for washing, and the toilet regularly blocks, on these occasions they use a bucket. She has been in this container for two years. In contrast the Portland barge is utter luxury compared to these conditions.
Ealing council is a towering example of a Labour run administration who have completely lost the plot. They have people who have lived in the borough all ther lives housed in containers, while illegals are in hotels. The council criticise the government for being hostile to immigrants while claiming to be a recognised Borough of Sanctuary, 'working to encourage inclusivity, solidarity, and compassion for people from a forced displacement background'.
Very left wing I'm sure, it's a pity the councils virtue signalling doesn't extend to local residents.
Edit: These containers are not rent free, the rent is a staggering £320 a week, which is obviously paid for by some sort of benefit I would have thought.
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Post by Dan Dare on Aug 8, 2023 17:27:17 GMT
I got the distinct impression reading this piece that the 'local residents' occupying these container homes are themselves from a 'forced displacement background'.
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 8, 2023 17:45:40 GMT
I got the distinct impression reading this piece that the 'local residents' occupying these container homes are themselves from a 'forced displacement background'. Quite possibly, but the honest answer is I don't know. The two container residents who were interviewed didn't show their faces (The camera was behind them) One was quite obviously a black woman who had a little girl, she didn't say whether she was British or how long she had been in this country. The other was a white man who had a very clipped accent and sounded quite educated. He said he was sleeping rough for eight years in Ealing, then three years ago the council put him this container accommodation because they were obliged to get the homeless off the streets due to covid. It would have been interesting to know how he came to be in that situation tbh. |
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