Britain’s left-wing Burnham government unveiled plans to spread boat migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees across the country because middle-class communities haven’t taken their “fair share” yet. Planting migrants in working-class areas — because housing there is cheap — has caused “a huge burden on local communities and created real civil unrest”, so the logical next step is to spread that to middle-class areas next, which haven’t yet taken “their fair share”, the British government has communicated. The extraordinary series of public relations flubs began on Monday when Prime Minister Andy Burnham was offered the opportunity to meet with locals from a small village about to be overwhelmed by a migrant camp three-times the size of their population, and turned it down, immediately pivoting on to how he believes more areas need to do their part to take on migrants.
The camps are part of a new strategy by the government to disperse illegal or irregular migrants — many of whom come to Britain by smuggler boat — away from the widely despised migrant hotels and into alternate accommodation such as homes taken off the private rental market with government money, or converted military barracks. There are now nearly 70,000 boat migrants living in homes rented by the government, something which critics say pushes up housing prices for ordinary Britons as significant stock is taken off the open market, driving shortages.
