Rats, overcrowding and malnutrition common at UK asylum hotels, report finds

The Guardian ^ | Mon 10 Nov 2025 | Diane Taylor

[MinorityRepublican]

Asylum seekers living in hotels have reported rats, overcrowding and food so bad it leads to deficiencies, research has found.

Profiting From People: Inside the UK’s Asylum Hotels, a report from the Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and London (Ramfel), draws on work with 493 people housed in asylum hotels between January 2023 and February 2025.

Asylum seekers reported overcrowded conditions, including families of six living in a single room.

[dfwgator]

So they should feel right at home.

[Steely Tom]

Maybe their occupants think that’s normal.

[jerod]

Here’s a solution... Where there’s rats... There’s nutrition. Problem solved.

[Texas Eagle]

They can always asylum back to where they came from.

[crusty old prospector]

Rat can be a delicious meal but is it halal?

[Fungi]

Why are they harboring and feeding invaders?

[Bigg Red]

Oh, the poor dears. They should just leave the UK.

Go back to your filthy, corrupt countries.

[Da Coyote]

I eagerly await news of the Guardian collection O’Clowns housing those folks in their homes.

[VTenigma]

Whoda thunk people from 3rd world s#!t holes would turn their new homes into 3rd world s#!t holes?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“research has found”

WTH? Somebody actually spent money RESEARCHING how the freeloaders live?

What were the leeches expecting? The Savoy? The Connaught? The Dorchester?

[HighSierra5]

Four or two legged Rats?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#2: "So they should feel right at home."

Yes indeed. In the mud countries where they came from,
rats are an important part of their nutrition. It's what's for dinner.

[vpintheak]

Perhaps the grifters should go back to where they came from?

[butlerweave]

The UK can’t afford to take care of you anymore so GO HOME

[toddausauras]

Send them home.

[Telepathic Intruder]

And yet they still come running from whatever he’ll holes they came from, hoping to create the same thing in their new stolen home.

[frank ballenger]

We have them in the US in Congress, seated. Just look at the fights over the shutdown.

[frank ballenger]

And yet they still come running from whatever he’ll holes they came from, hoping to create the same thing in their new stolen home.

So true of the Dems leaving CA, NY and IL but bringing their filth with them to the good states.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "They can always asylum back to where they came from."

In parallel to this story and your comment, when we were resident in Germany, many "asylum" migrants actually used state monies to VACATION and visit families "back home." And then return to Germany and collect more "asylum" money. It was sick,as some German politicians were quick to turn a blind eye or even excuse this. Sick.