IF the public purse is to pay on a trial basis for large-scale, purpose-built, self-contained asylum centres, one assumes this to be part of New Labour's National Asylum Seekers 30-year plan.
This will be achieved through private finance initiative deals struck with private asylum care providers servicing their shareholders over 30-year contracts.
At the same time, taxpayers will pass the debt to the next generation and various services sub-contracted out so that no one can be found to be held accountable when problems arise.
Clearly, such deals will be struck and designed in such a way as to guarantee insufficient bed space, too narrow corridors and parking-space nowhere to be found. These would be described as "teething problems".
Transport connections would be decided by focus group rather than think tank. This policy direction opens up untold new career opportunities for be-suited individuals not to mention the accompanying specialist Asylum Care Management Training courses and further scope if it were needed for the construction industry, its shareholders and lobbyists.
As part of the Trial National Plan for new-build asylum seeker integrated services' centres, why restrict ourselves to smaller brownfield sites or cheaper refurbishment's of existing buildings when we can be entrepreneurial and go for greenfield sites with a pleasant view which might encourage guests to stay in more?
As far as local plans are concerned, if asylum seekers do not have an Exceptional Community Need, who does?
WENDY HANDS,
Upton-upon-Severn.
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