Statement from Rother Green Party on the Proposed Housing of Asylum Seekers at Northeye
5th April 2023
Rother Green Party opposes housing people seeking asylum at the former Northeye
prison. Conditions there are unsanitary, inhumane and inappropriate.
We also have serious reservations about concentrating significant numbers of asylum
seekers in small numbers of locations. It has the potential to cause anxiety amongst local
people and can result in unwanted friction with people seeking asylum many of who are
already traumatised.
Greens believe we should treat people fleeing war and persecution with compassion, and
should allow them to live with dignity and to contribute towards our society.
We are appalled that some leading figures in the government are prepared to play politics
with the issue of asylum seekers, apparently for electoral advantage.
