Kassam Stadium Hotel used to house refugees

There’s a pattern developing here.
Oxford United,have clearly been selected, to be used as a tool to deter illegal immigrants.
First,the FA negotiated with overseas TV companies to screen our game against Woking, including showing the game for free on huge screens,sited in Calais and Dunkerque,adjacent to refugee camps.
Second, for those already in the UK, it has been decided to move them to the Holiday Inn at the Kassam.
All will be given free tickets to our next home games.
It is hoped,that this experience will deter not only those who wished to travel to the UK and also persuade those at the hotel,to request repatriation to there country of origin.
 
guyellow said:
These are refugees/asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Ukraine. You really want to send them home?
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Not the Ukrainians no, but there are many who aren’t eligible and should be sent straight back. The other morning they said the biggest influx of refugees are Albanian and there is no war there or persecution and their prime minister decides to blame us.
With Afghanistan refugees that will never cease and that is something the Western world will have to try and sort but alas the Russians tried and failed some western world tried and failed. The world is a well and truly fucked uo olace but considering the amount of regugeees that are coming here illegally we just don’t have the infrastructure and we role like Kassam will milk it and rob the government for as much cash as they can.
The classic one was in North Ferriby there was a hotel all booked ready to take some more refugees but the locals got that blocked through the courts claiming infrastructure……a case of classic racism but that will happen all over the U.K..
Imagine holiday resorts putting refugees up and how much they will lose in tourism.
 
bazzer9461 said:
Not the Ukrainians no, but there are many who aren’t eligible and should be sent straight back. The other morning they said the biggest influx of refugees are Albanian and there is no war there or persecution and their prime minister decides to blame us.
With Afghanistan refugees that will never cease and that is something the Western world will have to try and sort but alas the Russians tried and failed some western world tried and failed. The world is a well and truly fucked uo olace but considering the amount of regugeees that are coming here illegally we just don’t have the infrastructure and we role like Kassam will milk it and rob the government for as much cash as they can.
The classic one was in North Ferriby there was a hotel all booked ready to take some more refugees but the locals got that blocked through the courts claiming infrastructure……a case of classic racism but that will happen all over the U.K..
Imagine holiday resorts putting refugees up and how much they will lose in tourism.
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So it's ok to keep the Ukrainians but not the Afghanistan people the Albanians have been coming to this country longer than I can remember both legally and illegally the problem is once you opened that door you could never fully close it otherwise it's the racism card

Personally I have no problems with immigrants coming to this country if they want to work and pay towards society like the rest of us it's the ones that come get a free house don't work and live a better life than the rest of us that go.to work there the ones that should be sent back to wherever it is they come from
 
Probably mostly Albanian, the hotel owner made his fortune by running slums and housing those who were homeless etc and taking huge amounts of taxpayers money.

So this is no surprise!
 
Ox4Eva said:
Probably mostly Albanian, the hotel owner made his fortune by running slums and housing those who were homeless etc and taking huge amounts of taxpayers money.

So this is no surprise!
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He may have done but read the article. These are Afghan and Ukrainian refugees. The assumptions here to fit a narrative isn't helpful.
 
oufc1991 said:
So it's ok to keep the Ukrainians but not the Afghanistan people the Albanians have been coming to this country longer than I can remember both legally and illegally the problem is once you opened that door you could never fully close it otherwise it's the racism card

Personally I have no problems with immigrants coming to this country if they want to work and pay towards society like the rest of us it's the ones that come get a free house don't work and live a better life than the rest of us that go.to work there the ones that should be sent back to wherever it is they come from
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Where are we going to put them ? Albanians have been coming for many years a lot where and are illegal.
We have a duty of care Theo the Afghans that helped during the conflict but not every one.
I get where you’re coming from and yes there are some who want to come for a better life and work and bring their families up in a country in the G7 because of the wealth, but as you say the ones who want a freebie at our expense should be arrested and returned immediately, problem is the do guiders who try every tactic through the courts to have them allowed to stay here. Sorry if this is harsh but no if they’re here illegally send them straight back no messing.
 
I thought I'd read about this last year, that the Home Office had block-booked the hotel but wasn't actually using the rooms.
 
Shrewd bit of business by FK - never misses a trick.

Same as his many "hotels for the homeless", think he had 18 buildings at the peak.
Hotelier or "slum landlord/merchant of misery" you decide, but he is putting a roof over peoples heads.
And he collects a lot of money for doing so!
 
Essexyellows said:
Shrewd bit of business by FK - never misses a trick.

Same as his many "hotels for the homeless", think he had 18 buildings at the peak.
Hotelier or "slum landlord/merchant of misery" you decide, but he is putting a roof over peoples heads.
And he collects a lot of money for doing so!
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How does FK benefit from this? Does he not simply charge Holiday Inn rent? The money from any room sales does to Holiday Inn?
 
northstandboy said:
How does FK benefit from this? Does he not simply charge Holiday Inn rent? The money from any room sales does to Holiday Inn?
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I think that he is running it as a franchise of Holiday Inn. So pays them a franchise fee and uses their branding / website / booking system.
The company which I think owns the hotel at the Ozone is Firoka (Oxford Hotels) Limited/
 
Firoka (Oxford Hotels) Limited runs the Holiday Inn Express. Firoka (Priory Hotels) Limited runs the hotel next to the Ozone. Firoz Kassam is principle Director of both, so benefits directly from them both, which includes the use of taxpayers' money in this latest situation.

He is not doing this out of the goodness of his heart!
 
Colin B said:
Firoka (Oxford Hotels) Limited runs the Holiday Inn Express. Firoka (Priory Hotels) Limited runs the hotel next to the Ozone. Firoz Kassam is principle Director of both, so benefits directly from them both, which includes the use of taxpayers' money in this latest situation.

He is not doing this out of the goodness of his heart!
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Just had a look at the Firoka (Oxford) Dec 2021 accounts.
Note 6 they have made over £2M of charitable donations in the last 2 years!
Note 24 they had a prior period adjustment revaluing the stadium from depreciated cost of £9.3M to an investment property worth £29M!
Now that surely isn't based on a multiplier on rental income (see note 13), so I guess is some sort of market value of the land as developable? Perhaps one for another thread?
 
So much repeated bile for the man who saved the club.
What about the shareholders who signed the contracts and approved the lease terms.
 
Booking.com is busy at the moment. They had it on their site on Wednesday because we have friends visiting who tried to book it!
 
Colin B said:
Saved the club, and condemned it to a life of servitude, while he got rich on the proceeds you mean!
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The club is still alive and has continued to attract new shareholders- they clearly do not share your view or hatred.
I’m hoping there positivity comes good and we can all move on .
 
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