Meet Dr Hari Reed, another Piddington resident. Hari signed this open letter around a year ago… Hari is also the joint CEO of the charity “Asylum Welcome”, who wrote the open letter. Open letter coordinated by Asylum Welcome bel: - “We are deeply concerned by the escalating hostility being... directed towards people seeking asylum who are currently housed in our county. Dehumanising language, as well as actions such as intimidating asylum seekers or filming outside hotels, should have no place in our communities. They cause real harm, fuelling division and danger, and inflict fear and distress on already vulnerable people. It is vital to remember that people in hotel accommodation are here because they are fleeing war, dictatorship, persecution, and terrorism. They are men, women and children seeking safety and waiting for their claims to be processed. They did not choose to live in hotels; the Home Office decides where they are housed. Families and individuals in our county have no control over these arrangements. Vulnerable people are being used as a political football. Our clients tell us they feel frightened and unwelcome when they see hostility directed at the places where they are forced to live. Many are already traumatised by what they have endured, and these actions deepen their isolation and despair. At the same time, we also witness asylum seekers’ resilience, dignity, mutual solidarity and eagerness to contribute to British society. Their perspective, and the compassion shown by many local people, is too often missing from public debate. Asylum Welcome has around 300 volunteers: local people who choose to give their time and energy to welcome newcomers. They see first-hand the difference that kindness makes — and they embody the Oxfordshire tradition of hospitality that should define us all. Oxford and Oxfordshire are proud of their traditions of welcome. We call on political representatives, community leaders, and residents to affirm unity, reject hate, and ensure our county remains a place of safety. Facts matter: •Seeking asylum is a legal right under UK and international law, regardless of how someone arrives. Article 31 of the 1951 Refugee Convention — which the UK helped draft — makes clear refugees must not be penalised for entering a country irregularly to claim asylum. •People in hotels are following the process required of them. The use of hotels is a Home Office policy, not the choice of asylum seekers, who are banned from working and survive on less than £10 a week for all essentials beside food. •These are not “luxury hotels” – they are former hotels taken over and run by private companies working for the Home Office. Conditions are basic: shared rooms, poor-quality food, isolation, and long periods of waiting with no control over their lives. •People seeking asylum are not a single group. They include families, children, LGBTQ+ people facing persecution, political activists, journalists, religious minorities, and young men escaping forced conscription. Men who make the journey ahead of their families are doing so because they are risking their own lives first, in the hope of later bringing loved ones through safe and legal routes — routes which are now extremely limited or closed. •International law does not require refugees to seek asylum in the first safe country they reach. If it did, only border states would take responsibility, and the global asylum system would collapse. The UK currently receives fewer than 1% of the world’s refugees. •There is no credible evidence that people seeking asylum commit more crimes than the UK-born population. Claims to the contrary are fuelled by misinformation. We ask everyone in Oxfordshire to uphold our values of dignity, humanity, and neighbourliness. We stand together in solidarity with people seeking asylum.”show more

Except, this country are getting very few ‘asylum’ seekers, the reality is we are getting illegal economic migrants who are men who are fleeing perfectly safe countries whom we know nothing about. As for crime data - if our government release the data, we can see for ourselves

These people do not care about the working class.

I have not seen one Piddington resident that I can like. At this rate, maybe we should start a fund to protect the poor, unfortunate invaders from the people of Piddington?

@LSW1957 These people of piddington are just getting worse! 😂😂😂

Hari Reed’s thoughts on hotel and camp use, ironically she claims she would prefer to see them in the community.

this woman is crazy, as is her pal Rachael Maskell

The sooner affluent areas are flooded with migrants quicker we get the country back, the middle class never gave a fuck about white working class girls when they were getting eaped and trafficked. What goes around comes around

So it’s starting to seem as though Labour did listen to the residents of Piddington and gave them what some had been very vocally asking for. I don’t know what they are complaining about. Some voted for it some have openly called for it. Time for you to bask in your virtue.

My God, she really has no concept of the humanity and dignity that she spews of English girls and boys being killed and raped by these wonderful people seeking a better life. But not in my back yard. Makes me ashamed to be the same species as that cretin.

She want asylum seekers. But just not where it has any effect on her and her posh chums?

did she read all this out to her fellow villagers in 'Pissington' ? They may have a change of heart, her deeply held concerns may have swayed them. Or did she agree best they all somewhere else ?

Same in Linton on Ouse

She seems to have dropped her kindness? Where'd it go?

“Lots of support from the community”

@Phil_Osophi Does she know they’re building a special centre .. at the end of her road 🤷‍♀️

They are economic migrants. None of them are asylum seekers. Thats the propaganda they want you to swallow.

So she thinks now that a lot of undocumented men from backward countries, no one knows anything about should not be near her, and then says migrants will put off people coming to work at Oxfords business development park. But she doesnt care if your run down town gets them .

Please deliver us from these dangerously woke, left wing nutters.

They only say this crap when they are a very safe distance away from the situation.

Well, Hari Reed can say this, can’t she, because she’s never been chased fucking bare arse down down the street by one of these illegals brandishing a fucking machete, has she?

Send the migrants there. Then the pro migrants can witness first hand what happens and it might be a lesson

Then to Piddington the illegals should go. The can live off the sweat of the Piddington residents brows. They should feel the sting of invasion upon their utopian society.

@buc97552

The worry is, it is people like this, who for the last 30 years have been slithering into positions of power to indoctrinate in Govt Dept, Westminster, Universities, Schools and business. These are the people calling the shots and that scares the shit out of me.

Another fuckwit propping up the state sponsored people trafficking.

Welcome mat down for her new neighbours.

"Forced to live.............." These third-world savages are hardly 'forced to live' here are they? They can sod off any time they like.

The face of hypocrisy

Here's the amusing part. You don't even know when you are being played anymore do you? You think a village of 350 people would make headline news if it wasn't part of a plan to try and promote separatism? Much easer to control when countries are broken up.

Another nut job hell-bent on destroying our countries. These people are truly disgusting & they onow deep down we're not getting the best of said countries we're getting the worst, just look at Sweden were Muslims are now screaming for shariah law it will happen here too

Dr Dickhead, whichever way this goes, is in for a fucking surprise.

Women of Europe will be the reason for Europes downfall...they will sink Europe with the dumb wokism...no wonder muslims keep them behind closed doors under veil confined to four walls