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£350 to cover any increase in C Tax, utilities and food. I think I could make that work. Oh, but what would be in it for ME?
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[News] Government offing £350 a month to host Ukrainian refugees.
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Get some company from [MENTION=19792]bomber130[/MENTION]? Haven't they suffered enough?
bomber130
bomber130
- Jun 10, 2011
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Maybe the government could have said single people will not have to pay the extra 25% which would apply to their council tax for having another person living in there house. That was the point I was trying to make. I would actually consider it but I would certainly be out of pocket on the £350 which as stated previously given I’m retired.
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Neville's Breakfast
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I’m not going to host a Ukrainian family. I am also not looking to pick a fight with you.
It was the way you asked the question that led to the responses.
Neville's Breakfast
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Perhaps the wording of your OP could have been a little better and you may have had a different response. No worries though.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
It’s not compulsory. Don’t do it if you don’t want to.
I don’t think you are the sort of household the government are appealing to. I think anyone doing this will be expected to take a bit of a hit. We have a tiny house and a spare room, but Mrs H and I have talked about it and whether we could do it. I don’t think compensation ever came up when we discussed it.
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Gabbafella
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- Aug 22, 2012
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If I had the space, I'd let them come to mine rent free.
They have nothing, they've been driven out of their homes through no fault of their own, almost certainly lost loved ones as well as everything they've worked for, trekked across the entire width of Europe to get here and your whining about £350 a month!
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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good old dog pile. someone expresses a concern, derided without discussing issue raised. surely there are enough willing hosts that payments to host are unnecessary? how well is this thought out or a knee-jerk headline grabber to try and recover some image after poor handling.
Probably a poorly worded opening sentence by the OP but I think we all understand the sentiment. Household bills are going through the roof particularly energy & fuel with food not far behind and no real indication when they will hit the ceiling and what that ceiling level might be.
This govt. has spent billions on Covid in an attempt to keep the hospitality sector (amongst others) afloat and is now asking Joe Public to effectively foot the bill for hosting these refugees with a token payment.
It's hard to see who the target "market" is for the take up. Families with kids and parents either out working all day or trying to WFH? Oldies with perhaps a spare room or 2? Single people with a spare room? I just don't know.
I've read the BBC story and it would make much more sense if it was £350 per person per month if you were to host a family of 3 or 4 it would cost a lot at a time when inflation and costs are spiralling.
This govt. has spent billions on Covid in an attempt to keep the hospitality sector (amongst others) afloat and is now asking Joe Public to effectively foot the bill for hosting these refugees with a token payment.
It's hard to see who the target "market" is for the take up. Families with kids and parents either out working all day or trying to WFH? Oldies with perhaps a spare room or 2? Single people with a spare room? I just don't know.
I've read the BBC story and it would make much more sense if it was £350 per person per month if you were to host a family of 3 or 4 it would cost a lot at a time when inflation and costs are spiralling.
Quite.
And the OP need not worry abut his poll tax going up because we are letting in so few Ukranians that total bill is likely to be little more than what it would cost to replace Dan Burn.
Gove onto a winner here - appearing super generous and kindly without much financial risk.
Open the borders up, however, and I'd give Gove a little round of applause.
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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Wow how badly are you missing the point!
Apologies to you, too.
I do think you're worrying needlessly about how this is going to affect you, personally, though.
This is more a 'drop in the ocean' than 'the straw that broke the camel's back'.
(And the latter is almost always a false analogy, unless dealing with phenomena that are binary with an all-or-none threshold; the economy is a graded beast with occasional catastrophes, but the latter are governed by chaos mathematics and the minute we make decisions based on fear of chaos we are dead as a species).
It all seems like yet another pisspoor attempt by Government to try and pretend it’s doing something when in reality it’s doing virtually **** all
You’d have to wonder what would happen with todays society in WW2. Kids being sent around the country during the Blitz.
‘Well I’m not taking them in, shouldn’t have kids if you can’t look after them’
‘What about the extra utilities they’ll use, how am I going to pay for that’
Etc
Funny old world though, I remember when the building opposite the Thomas A Becket had the serious fire and structurally it was unsafe, locals couldn’t go out of their way any more to be seen to do stuff - house the families, get together toys , toiletries etc.
I won’t be doing this as my circumstances don’t really allow it - but I won’t be walking around today shouting about why I won’t / can’t / shouldn’t [emoji2375]
‘Well I’m not taking them in, shouldn’t have kids if you can’t look after them’
‘What about the extra utilities they’ll use, how am I going to pay for that’
Etc
Funny old world though, I remember when the building opposite the Thomas A Becket had the serious fire and structurally it was unsafe, locals couldn’t go out of their way any more to be seen to do stuff - house the families, get together toys , toiletries etc.
I won’t be doing this as my circumstances don’t really allow it - but I won’t be walking around today shouting about why I won’t / can’t / shouldn’t [emoji2375]
