The entire Albanian village built on British cash:

HAYSIE

paid for with money sent from their son who entered Britain illegally (though it's not quite finished as their builder has left…for the UK)



Sait Shabaj and his wife Xheride were the lucky beneficiaries of their 30-year-old son Nimet's arrival in London on the back of a truck. Their £100,000 pink mansion includes an orange tree orchard and offers views over a river valley in Rrasek. But the project remains unfinished because the builder has also fled the country for a better life in England, one of 10,000 adult men to cross the Channel by boat this year.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11403819/Albanian-family-home-theyve-built-money-sent-son-entered-Britain-illegally.html

VespaPX

That's one of the reasons this country is skint.
Too much money being sent abroad and not spent here.

Allan23

Nice house, good on em

Tikay10

Allan23 said:

Nice house, good on em

@Allan23



+1.

Love to see folks bettering themselves & their families.

goldon

Drain the Ocean ... Flood the World ... Feather your Nest.

tomgoodun

I moved from the midlands to down south, I had zero money, lived in ‘bed sits’ and the very worst ‘hotels’ you could imagine.
After a few years working in the hotel trade, and behind the bars I got a trade in joinery.
My constant battle with alcohol was with me throughout.
Now, I have a lovely wife, beautiful children, a gorgeous grandson, a house almost paid for, and holiday abroad ( never went abroad whist living ‘oop north’)

Anyone care to point out difference between my story and those coming here to try and forge a better life for themselves?

Tikay10

@tomgoodun nails it in one.

VespaPX

https://www.finder.com/uk/money-transfer-statistics

hhyftrftdr

VespaPX said:

That's one of the reasons this country is skint.
Too much money being sent abroad and not spent here.

People can spend their money as they please.

goldon

Yep! Really should pay the Tax Man more to send as Aid to Countries with Space Programmes and starving people.

TheEdge949

Kind of seen this first hand and it creates problems.

The Holiday Park where my caravan was sited has just allocated their entire hire fleet of 96 caravans for use by Ukranian families. Win for the families, win for Wynn, Sam, Paris and Rio who own the site as they are being paid £500 per family per week YEAR ROUND.

However, the Ukranian families do not patronise either the bars or the cafes as they send the bulk of any money they have back home. Result is 6 full time staff now out of work because the people who used to rent the caravans used the facilities and now its like a ghost town.

We left the site on Nov 4th as the owners are looking to move older vans out in order to bring more hire fleet onto the site meaning it will only get worse.

VespaPX

hhyftrftdr said:

VespaPX said:

That's one of the reasons this country is skint.
Too much money being sent abroad and not spent here.

People can spend their money as they please.

I've missed you too...

HAYSIE

TheEdge949 said:

Kind of seen this first hand and it creates problems.

The Holiday Park where my caravan was sited has just allocated their entire hire fleet of 96 caravans for use by Ukranian families. Win for the families, win for Wynn, Sam, Paris and Rio who own the site as they are being paid £500 per family per week YEAR ROUND.

However, the Ukranian families do not patronise either the bars or the cafes as they send the bulk of any money they have back home. Result is 6 full time staff now out of work because the people who used to rent the caravans used the facilities and now its like a ghost town.

We left the site on Nov 4th as the owners are looking to move older vans out in order to bring more hire fleet onto the site meaning it will only get worse.

The house is in Ukraine.

stokefc

HAYSIE said:

paid for with money sent from their son who entered Britain illegally (though it's not quite finished as their builder has left…for the UK)



Sait Shabaj and his wife Xheride were the lucky beneficiaries of their 30-year-old son Nimet's arrival in London on the back of a truck. Their £100,000 pink mansion includes an orange tree orchard and offers views over a river valley in Rrasek. But the project remains unfinished because the builder has also fled the country for a better life in England, one of 10,000 adult men to cross the Channel by boat this year.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11403819/Albanian-family-home-theyve-built-money-sent-son-entered-Britain-illegally.html

A purple house with purple people....Indigo

hhyftrftdr

VespaPX said:

hhyftrftdr said:

VespaPX said:

That's one of the reasons this country is skint.
Too much money being sent abroad and not spent here.

People can spend their money as they please.

I've missed you too...

Your frothing xenophobia once again lured me back in.

lucy4

So everyone has missed 'Paid for with money sent from their son who entered Britain illegally'

lucy4

@hhyftrftdr Do you believe that people should be allowed to enter the country illegally?

lucy4

paid for with money sent from their son who entered Britain illegally

tomgoodun

lucy4 said:

paid for with money sent from their son who entered Britain illegally

Could you point out the ‘legal’ route for people to settle in Britain please.

tomgoodun

What are safe and legal routes?
By ‘safe and legal’ route, we mean the formal sanction by the UK of journeys to the UK – e.g. where a visa is granted or available for the journey or the person is permitted to travel to the UK without a visa. A journey under any other circumstances is not by a safe and legal route. However, this does not mean the journey is either unlawful or unsafe, though its being made in circumstances that are not formally sanctioned gives rise to significant risks of exploitation, abuse and other harm. As regards lawfulness of journeys that are not by safe and legal routes, we note there is no requirement in international law that a claim for asylum be made in any particular country and a refugee may legitimately cross multiple borders in order to reach the place where she, he or they seek asylum.i


^ Copied from Amnesty international

lucy4

The context of

tomgoodun said:

lucy4 said:

paid for with money sent from their son who entered Britain illegally

Could you point out the ‘legal’ route for people to settle in Britain please.

I'm no legal expert but I'd thought hiding in the back of a lorry to gain entry to a country doesn't constitute a legitimate reason for asylum.