Huge Row at Scots Asylum Hotel.

Dextrous63 · August 22, 2025, 02:09:10 PM

True. Fairly healthy majority last time

Raven · August 22, 2025, 02:17:16 PM

It's never twice the same, changes all the time......Sometimes daily.

klondike · August 22, 2025, 05:12:23 PM

Quote from: Raven on August 22, 2025, 01:10:57 PM

You aren't alone. Right now the same applies to most of the English - we'd prefer Westminster was a neighbour. A distant one too.

Dextrous63 · August 22, 2025, 05:58:00 PM

Quote from: klondike on August 22, 2025, 05:12:23 PMYou aren't alone. Right now the same applies to most of the English - we'd prefer Westminster was a neighbour. A distant one too.

Can we send it to Rwanda?

Michael Rolls · August 22, 2025, 06:18:27 PM

I'd prefer Mars!

Raven · August 23, 2025, 07:41:03 PM

Another protest rally in Perth, this time at The Station Hotel. This used to be Perth's five star hotel, it was so posh, you could almost smell money when you went through the doors into reception. I was at a few Linedances there back in the early 2000s. I can't believe there's migrants in it now.

It's quite famous for Queen Victoria often staying there. You don't get much posher than that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz602e075q6o

Dextrous63 · August 23, 2025, 07:52:12 PM

We used to take a load of school children(approx 150) to Bonskeid House outside of Pitlochry. The impression of the county/shire/whatever your preferential name for Perthshire was that it was pretty affluent and posh.

Why the hell would anyone want to ruin it???

Raven · August 23, 2025, 07:54:28 PM

I'd no idea it has closed and was now full of migrants, I'm going to rake about and see what happened. That's 3 now in Perth.
As for Perth being posh, it certainly was when I was growing up.

Dextrous63 · August 23, 2025, 08:04:37 PM

At what stage does one throw the towel in, or decide it's time to take action?? I can't help but feel that it's getting close to some very unpleasant uprising, when the baby (of legitimate and useful immigrants and actually appropriate asylum seekers) is thrown out with the bath water.

Raven · August 23, 2025, 08:06:05 PM

As I keep on saying "it's all going to end in tears"

Dextrous63 · August 23, 2025, 08:08:33 PM

It's getting close!

Raven · August 23, 2025, 08:18:55 PM

I think so too, where do you think it will kick off? My guess is South Coast somewhere.

Dextrous63 · August 23, 2025, 08:35:29 PM

Not sure. It'll come after one more accusation of rape/molestation of a child imho. At which point, nobody will be safe. Starmer may well get his starm-troopers into action, but, given the release of wots her name earlier this week, woe betide anyone who wants to repeat that level of ott inappropriate policing and subsequent sentencing.

All of this could have been prevented if Starmer had done his job properly. There's no use him berating Reform/Farage. It's not that sort of game. He needed to get hard pronto, and stop trying to play softball politics with the electorate. And he deffo needed not to start screaming "hard right".

All in all, he's a ferquit of the highest order.

Mups · August 23, 2025, 09:47:39 PM

Quote from: Raven on August 23, 2025, 08:18:55 PMI think so too, where do you think it will kick off? My guess is South Coast somewhere.

I just spotted this:

" Police and protesters have scuffled as demonstrations against hotels housing asylum seekers took place across the UK.
Demonstrations under the Abolish Asylum System slogan were being held in major towns and cities around England, including Bristol, Exeter, Tamworth, Cannock, Nuneaton, Liverpool, Wakefield, Newcastle, Horley in Surrey and Canary Wharf in central London.
Aberdeen and Perth in Scotland and Mold in Flintshire, Wales, were also holding protests."

JBR · August 23, 2025, 10:33:17 PM

Quote from: Dextrous63 on August 23, 2025, 08:35:29 PMAll of this could have been prevented if Starmer had done his job properly. There's no use him berating Reform/Farage. It's not that sort of game. He needed to get hard pronto, and stop trying to play softball politics with the electorate. And he deffo needed not to start screaming "hard right".

All in all, he's a ferquit of the highest order.

Berating Reform and Farage is, in my opinion, TwoTier's desperation. He surely knows that he is rapidly losing the support of the electorate. He obviously has no option now but to try to talk down his opposition and hope to persuade at least some of the people to support him and his party.
He is fighting a losing battle and, because he really has no idea what to do, he will certainly lose sooner or later. The British public are now wise to him.

What on earth is a 'ferquit'? It sounds like some sort of wild animal. No, don't say it. I think I know, but your spelling is terrible!