Asylum seekers told to share hotel bedrooms | Homeless LBC caller reacts

LBC caller Steve is homeless. He tells Rachel Johnson he is "absolutely frustrated" by asylum seekers who are resisting the idea that they might have to share hotel bedrooms.

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[leonjford]

This is a very sad and unfortunately common example of the very well-off successfully encouraging poor people in bad situations to turn against other poor people in bad situations... ignoring the elephant in the room

[testudohorsfieldii]

A millionaire who is only hosting this show because of who her family is goading a homeless man, (and by the way has probably suffered greatly due to the policies of a Tory government over the past 13 years) to resent and blame refugees from places like Syria for his present condition. Anyone else find this exchange utterly vile?

[ECECECECEC]

Poor bloke is falling for the same old story. The upper classes are very happy to play him off against the refugees when his real enemy wallows in opulence.

[ryanoneill]

Her brother put them in this position to be target and deflection from their corruption.

Don’t be fooled.

[FatNormanCoathanger]

Bozo's sister is really compassionate .
To stop "steve" whingeing about "his" situation, she's not shy in rubbing the salt in his wounds.

[Mtt_]

His anger should be for the government that won't help him, rather than aimed at other people in need lf help. But unfortunately his feeling is exactly what the government, daily mail etc wanted. Shows their tactics are working

[drummingtildeath]

All you have to do is ignore homeless people, and then every time anyone needs help, you can just say "what about the homeless people?".
And thats why they dont help them. If they did, theyd have one less excuse not to help the next group.

[IAmAStepaholic]

This guy is mad at the wrong people. Government legislation has put this homeless guy where he is and the immigrants where they are.

[soldierdyates]

Shame on this government and our people for standing for it 😢

[私たちは一緒に行進します]

When I was homeless, I didn't blame other desperate people, I wanted them to be helped too

[MartyJackson]

So painful that his anger is undeservingly against innocent people, when it should lay with people like her brother and his cronies.

[kenrickcampbell]

These people should realise who their enemies the likes of this woman and her brother and family.

[RedRattt]

Man blames other people failed by the system for the systems failure rather than the people who run it.

[mendozamoore]

There she goes just like her brother. Like to stir up the anger. They talk about this but they should be talking about how they are helping us with food cost and energy bills.

[tybes]

Her brother pits the upper and middle classes against the lower and she pits half the lower class against the other half of the lower class. How well rounded.

[PaulJones-bruv]

Blame the Government. It is a choice for the Government not to house people who sleep on the street. FInland has pretty much ended homelessness with house first policy. Our Government tries to do as little as possible for its people.

[moun]

He has the right to work. He speaks perfect English. Asylum seekers are banned from working & most of them can’t speak the language. This dynamic must be put in mind. Finally don’t blame refugees nor the homeless for the situation they ended up in, the government deliberately designed the system this way.

[mrmikeh-nvcq]

They're staying in rooms with 4 poster beds and en suites at the madely hall hotel, a converted castle 🇬🇧💔

[oliplaysbass]

I used to work for homeless service and would get these guys fairly often ‘you can’t house me but you house all the asylum seekers’. It’s completely different legislation and I don’t think they need to be compared.

[mrdaveythebaby]

The government not caring about homeless people isn't related to their mistreatment of refugees. In 2017, when there were prectically no boat crossings and the government hadn't decided to weaponise asylum seeker, there was still a homelessness problem, and the gov didn't care then either.