This is the thin end of the wedge. This policy is going to create havoc.
People become foster carers purely for the money so this doesn’t surprise me in the least. Some people are just awful.
As if i knew this was going to happen…
Instead of housing those poor people with awful randoms around the country, turn the oligarch s mansions into refugee centers, far safer, far better and fair..
Got the tories a few fawning headlines at the announcement and now they don’t have to lift a finger for refugees. So it served its purpose.
> She fled her home in Dnipro on 28 March and began a dangerous and harrowing journey out of Ukraine by car. She arrived in Brighton about two weeks later. But soon the host started demanding money and said Olha was costing her a lot in utility bills. “She contacted the utility companies, asked them how much she had spent that week and told me that since I had arrived her energy bills had gone up a lot and that I needed to pay her £50 per week for energy bills. She said if I didn’t want to pay her I had to leave.”
Basically right around when the energy price cap went up…
>matched with a British woman in her 60s via a Facebook group and had registered with the government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme
What a horrible human-being
£350 is enough for the utility expenses, this boomer is just looking for a profit
Makes me sick what this generation is capable of.
Signing up to take a refugee is such an amazing and selfless thing to do. How could you be the same person to then welcome them with one meal and one meal only and then demand money from them and then ask them to leave?
I can’t fathom how you’d take a refugee and treat them badly. Of course taking someone in is going to have a degree of financial burden unless you expect them to live an extremely humble existence and just be grateful they have a roof over their heads. This ‘host’ should be ashamed treating a refugee so badly they expressed they wished they were still in a war zone.
The governments shitty scheme obviously had nothing in place to stop people like this taking refugees and no safety net in case this happens.
I mean, thru are staying there and using the utilities…seems fair?
I don’t agree with what happened here in the slightest. I’m not sure who could afford to house extra families during this time in the UK, when people can barely afford to feed and keep the heating on for themselves…
If you take random strangers and make them share a house for weeks or months, with the best will in the world it isn’t always going to work out. There will be personality clashes, different expectations, etc in some cases.
You then have to consider that a minority of those involved won’t be nice, reasonable people. Some hosts will be doing it for the wrong reasons, and, dare I say it, a few of the refugees might not be saints either.
This is surely obvious? Why is there nothing place to deal with the inevitable situation where the host and refugee simply can’t live together and the refugees need rehouisng?
It is almost as if the government haven’t put any thought into the scheme at all.
There’s also been reports of men offering female refugees a place to live in return for sexual favours. There are some absolute bastards out there!
Ohh exploitation of Ukrainian refugees? Nobody saw this coming.
Never mind I’m sure the BBC will be able to find yet another wealthy middle class couple to film tearfully collecting ‘their’ Ukrainians from the airport to balance this out.
I’ll take “easily foreseeable consequence of the state pushing its duties onto the public with no real accountability or oversight” for 500 Alex.
“Host demands money” = 60 yo woman struggling to pay additional cost of living and energy bills, realises she can’t afford to keep refugee without help 🤷
Who wants to bet the £50 increase in her bills is more to do with the energy price cap rise than another person being present? Unless the refugee was secretly running a grow in their wardrobe (expect the Express to use this comment as a source) there’s no way they’re causing that big a jump.
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This is the thin end of the wedge. This policy is going to create havoc.
People become foster carers purely for the money so this doesn’t surprise me in the least. Some people are just awful.
As if i knew this was going to happen…
Instead of housing those poor people with awful randoms around the country, turn the oligarch s mansions into refugee centers, far safer, far better and fair..
Maybe Charity, however well intentioned, isn’t the answer to when a government can use it’s massive resources to step in and provide refuge and housing. It’s pretty clearly leading to abuse in a lot of ways which the UK was [Warned](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/15/uk-refugee-scheme-could-lead-to-exploitation-of-ukrainians-say-experts) about and [they carried on with it anyway.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/stop-matching-lone-female-ukraine-refugees-with-single-men-uk-told)
Got the tories a few fawning headlines at the announcement and now they don’t have to lift a finger for refugees. So it served its purpose.
> She fled her home in Dnipro on 28 March and began a dangerous and harrowing journey out of Ukraine by car. She arrived in Brighton about two weeks later. But soon the host started demanding money and said Olha was costing her a lot in utility bills. “She contacted the utility companies, asked them how much she had spent that week and told me that since I had arrived her energy bills had gone up a lot and that I needed to pay her £50 per week for energy bills. She said if I didn’t want to pay her I had to leave.”
Basically right around when the energy price cap went up…
>matched with a British woman in her 60s via a Facebook group and had registered with the government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme
What a horrible human-being
£350 is enough for the utility expenses, this boomer is just looking for a profit
Makes me sick what this generation is capable of.
Signing up to take a refugee is such an amazing and selfless thing to do. How could you be the same person to then welcome them with one meal and one meal only and then demand money from them and then ask them to leave?
I can’t fathom how you’d take a refugee and treat them badly. Of course taking someone in is going to have a degree of financial burden unless you expect them to live an extremely humble existence and just be grateful they have a roof over their heads. This ‘host’ should be ashamed treating a refugee so badly they expressed they wished they were still in a war zone.
The governments shitty scheme obviously had nothing in place to stop people like this taking refugees and no safety net in case this happens.
I mean, thru are staying there and using the utilities…seems fair?
I don’t agree with what happened here in the slightest. I’m not sure who could afford to house extra families during this time in the UK, when people can barely afford to feed and keep the heating on for themselves…
If you take random strangers and make them share a house for weeks or months, with the best will in the world it isn’t always going to work out. There will be personality clashes, different expectations, etc in some cases.
You then have to consider that a minority of those involved won’t be nice, reasonable people. Some hosts will be doing it for the wrong reasons, and, dare I say it, a few of the refugees might not be saints either.
This is surely obvious? Why is there nothing place to deal with the inevitable situation where the host and refugee simply can’t live together and the refugees need rehouisng?
It is almost as if the government haven’t put any thought into the scheme at all.
There’s also been reports of men offering female refugees a place to live in return for sexual favours. There are some absolute bastards out there!
Ohh exploitation of Ukrainian refugees? Nobody saw this coming.
Never mind I’m sure the BBC will be able to find yet another wealthy middle class couple to film tearfully collecting ‘their’ Ukrainians from the airport to balance this out.
I’ll take “easily foreseeable consequence of the state pushing its duties onto the public with no real accountability or oversight” for 500 Alex.
“Host demands money” = 60 yo woman struggling to pay additional cost of living and energy bills, realises she can’t afford to keep refugee without help 🤷
Who wants to bet the £50 increase in her bills is more to do with the energy price cap rise than another person being present? Unless the refugee was secretly running a grow in their wardrobe (expect the Express to use this comment as a source) there’s no way they’re causing that big a jump.