Kate Farrell

Mostly tweet about homelessness, sometimes cats and football.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

If only people could grasp the impact of:

Stopping privatisation

Vs

Stopping the boats.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

That was one of the most appalling statements ever made by a Labour Home Secretary.

Britain is abandoning the victims of war, environmental disaster and human rights abuses.

The government has turned its back on humanity - and future generations will suffer.

[Kate Farrell @katefaz]

This is worth reading for anyone who needs to challenge views like those @Rylan shared this week. My only addition would be that it isn’t only hotel businesses who benefit from this political choice it is also the far right agitators fuelling hate in our communities

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Long post 👇

The British media and reactionary MPs have pushed a dangerous myth: that people seeking asylum are being treated like hotel guests. The reality is the opposite. Hotels are being used as makeshift holding facilities. Many people seeking asylum share cramped rooms with strangers, sometimes whole families squeezed together. There is no luxury, no 4* service.

The real winners here are not the residents, who have endured terrible journeys and often all have legitimate cases for asylum, but hotel owners.

The government guarantees occupancy, funnelling millions into private companies under lucrative contracts. What looks like a “costly burden” on taxpayers is in fact a transfer of public money to businesses that profit from the housing shortage and asylum backlog.

In fact, the true scandal is that much of this spending comes out of the overseas aid budget. Instead of addressing the root causes of displacement, through humanitarian aid, peacebuilding, or development programmes abroad, funds are being diverted to line the pockets of hoteliers and other contractors in Britain. In effect, money designed to reduce the need for asylum in the first place is being wasted propping up a broken system.

There is a far more rational and humane path. Britain could invest properly in stabilisation and diplomacy overseas, support peace initiatives, and strengthen humanitarian responses where crises begin. At home, it could drastically speed up asylum processing so people aren’t stuck in hotels for months or years. And crucially, it could grant the right to work. Allowing asylum seekers to work means tax revenue, less welfare dependency, stronger local economies, and faster integration.

Instead, the government has chosen the most wasteful, divisive, and inhumane approach possible: trapping people in limbo, feeding resentment, and handing public money to private hotel chains. This is not an accident, it’s a political choice — one that helps nobody except the contractors cashing the cheques.

So, if we want a system that is fair, fiscally responsible, and humane, it already knows what to do: speed up asylum decisions, allow people to work, stop profiteering from hotel contracts, and restore the overseas aid budget to its actual purpose — tackling crises at their source.

[Liverpool City Council @lpoolcouncil]

Rumours aren’t facts.

🏠 No one in Liverpool is being evicted to make way for asylum housing. Serco has confirmed this.

👉 Read the facts: https://t.co/S3Kcu2JpG2

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

Nothing says "We Are Doing This Violent Racist Riot To Protect Women And Children" like a third of those arrested having previous for violence against women and girls.

[Kate Farrell @katefaz]

@LPL_Airport @Kirks09

[KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner @Kwajotweneboa]

There’s nothing ‘Temporary’ about Temporary Accommodation.

Children don’t choose to live in poverty-politicians choose whether to lift them out of it …

[Housing 4 All is Hot @ahouse4all]

It turns out that throwing away the belongings of people who have no choice but to live on the streets and pushing them from block to block every week doesn't help them get off the streets and is just a giant waste of money.

https://t.co/SSIw1Y2YEt

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

Councils spend £1.6bn a year on 'temporary accommodation' for homeless families - which includes some of the worst housing conditions in the country.

But who is getting the money? A joint investigation between me, @Victoria_Spratt and @StephenD_ tried to provide an answer...

[Kate Farrell @katefaz]

Accrington Stanley. Who are they?

[Ashok Kumar | 🇵🇸 @broseph_stalin]

If they’ve lied so blatantly in the middle of a European city with the entire political and media establishment’s consent - just imagine in Palestine

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

Tonight I learned something I’ve always suspected. Most people will support a rapist over a woman.

[Kate Farrell @katefaz]

Republic anyone?

[George Arbuthnott @Arbuthnott]

REVEALED:

The King and Prince William are funding their private lifestyles by secretly levying millions of pounds a year of charges from the armed forces, the NHS, state schools, charities, mining companies and the general public.

https://t.co/iqcfnCqPru

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 330,000 kids out of poverty = Labour whip withdrawn

Renting out properties that have mould and ant infestations, with tenants threatened with eviction if they complained or claimed housing benefits = Labour whip intact

🤔

[Kate Farrell @katefaz]

There’s a reason this is the best pub in Liverpool

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Free legal advice:

You don’t have to attend a riot to be prosecuted for conspiracy to riot. You don’t have to be present at a terrorist incident to be guilty of encouraging it.

A lot of Twitter warriors will be getting some unpleasant knocks on the door over the coming weeks.

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

As mobs attempt to burn down hotels housing asylum seekers, don't forget Nigel Farage led a campaign to publicise these hotels.

He recorded himself turning up at a series of them in 2020 and asked his followers to identify more hotels, saying some residents "might be ISIS".