smokingboot

Here's how it works, according to someone who knows this particular situation much better than I do.

Suppose you are a businessman, and you buy up a small lake and its surrounds. You try to get people in, perhaps there's interest in a water park but obviously that would take a lot of money. Then suddenly you are able to develop the place for over £10 million. How did you do that?

Here's a way. You buy up old buildings in a small town, say, an ex government building, for around £500,000. And you turn that into 50 rooms. Those rooms are alarmingly small with minimal facilities, ie no kitchens and the most basic communal washrooms/toilets, these last without even doors on them. But you put asylum seekers/homeless people in each of those rooms, and the government pays you £100 per person per night.

And that's in the smaller of the two places you own, to which you apply the same formula. So how long is it before you've paid off the mortgage? Then abracadabra!
That's how, when roads are falling apart and the country is groaning, and only foodbanks seem to be growing, you can turn taxpayers money into a £10 million waterpark.

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And if we are very very good, and judicious pressure is placed, and the churches make sad eyes at him, we might even be able to persuade him to put doors on those toilets.