Will you sign up to the new refugee sponsorship scheme?

[JoyousOpalLemur]

The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is apparently announcing next week a new refugee sponsorship scheme.

It would allow households to privately sponsor refugees from conflict zones.

Applications open this autumn, with the aim of resettling more than 10,000 people.

It’s modelled on Canada’s scheme and the Homes for Ukraine programme.

Sponsors would commit to providing financial, emotional and practical support.

What do people think? I just can't help thinking that with the current pressures on housing, schools, GPs and local services, how this will actually work in practice? Has anyone been involved in the Ukraine sponsorship scheme and can share what it was really like day-to-day?

Curious to hear everyone’s views.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/home-secretary-announce-scheme-refugees-uk-lgdr8ff25

Why would hating Reform mean a person would want to have an immigrant in their home? All across the political spectrum, from Rupert Lowe to kemi Badenoch to Zack Polenski, everyone hates Reform except the people who vote for them. If that was the criteria for the scheme, wouldn't be enough immigrants to go round.

Mumsnet will say "white men commit crime". Then they just ignore per capita

No.

There's a graph here as well - Asylum Applications European Union;

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Asylum_applications_-_annual_statistics

Why did the number of asylum applications skyrocket in the EU (see 2022, 2023, 2024)? Which international treaties did they leave?

Since reaching bilateral agreements with France in the last year, we are seeing a decline, but it's early days.

There's a recent decline in the EU graph as well. How do we know it's the bilateral agreement with France which is working to reduce the number of small boats and not just a reflection of the overall numbers declining across the EU?

During the last asylum crisis in Europe, 2014 - 2016 (also shown in the graph), countries such as Germany and Sweden initially welcomed asylum seekers with open arms, taking the burden from other EU countries. Now Germany and Sweden are taking a much harder line - therefore it seems obvious to me that asylum seekers in the current crisis will be distributed further afield (Sweden has taken an exceptionally anti-asylum seeker stance).

You're right. Every one of them is not a rapist or a murderer. Let's find out which ones of them are rapists and murderers by putting them in the spare rooms of British families and see which people get raped or murdered. Great idea. You go first.

Speaking of critical thinking.

Have you considered that a significant number of people in the UK have had their fill of immigration? Are you prepared to consider that possibility? And if so, why do you think it might be?

Thank you for starting this thread @JoyousOpalLemur

The poor little girl in Chertsey - she was two - I am close to tears.

This torrid government need to wake up - and fast.

Not a hope in hell enough of my taxes goes to keeping them

There are 20 million Afghan women. You're happy that they would all have the right to come to the UK? Then once granted LTR they'd be able to bring in male members of their families.

I think there are some posters on here that would be ok with that scenario.

Why is everyone ignoring me when I clearly explain what India does. Not part of refugee convention, detains, deports and protects Indian citizens.

How about we just don't allow loads of men to move here from the world's shit holes and our kids remain relatively safe?

Oh no words. How are we here

I would havethe bright idea Maps should be first in the queue - they usually have much bigger houses.

The uptake will the humongous! There're many people from very tribal parts of the country. They would do this. Majority of people with ties to Africa, Asia, India and the Middle East will jump at this. Mosques will provide lists of families they want to bring in etc.
The fact is the UK voted to leave the EU mainly because of immigration. The politicians keep saying that was the wrong answer and keep acting firmly and aggressively to reverse it by bringing even more people in. The country will tank even faster.

Exactly. Even if they do claim to have a profession, there's no real way to verify that in most cases. The Syrian refugee scheme was terrible, many were supposed to have qualifications but when they arrived couldn't prove it. I worked on that scheme, it was awful putting their needs in front of families who had been on the waiting list with social housing for years and having to instruct officers to tell families who were checking every week that they were no further up the queue. I was told not to tell them anything just ringfence the property for the refugees so other people got all the flack. Then it transpired that even though their stay in the UK was being reviewed after three years at the end of the three years they were given indefinite leave to remain. No doubt this scheme will be the same and we'll fill the country with people who claim to be highly skilled who never worked a day once they arrived. Rent paid, furniture and everything for the home provided, medical appointments set up and thats only what I can think of off the top of my head. Its shameful and unfair, especially for the less well off in this country who rely on social housing.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

What complete and utter madness.

Most European countries are now taking a tougher stance on asylum as the open arms approach has been repaid by rapes, murders and terrorist attacks on Christmas markets.

The point is that these males didn't need to be in UK or in Europe so their victims are collateral damage to the virtue-siganllers' criminal naivity.

Absolutely not. I don’t think it’s really great tbh - sponsor a family member from a conflict zone, commit to support them for a year and then you can get the British state to support them for the rest of their life? No thanks!

Oh, you're being serious about them being doctors and bus drivers.

Obviously not, having a random (most likely man) from a country that may have a completely incompatible culture to what we have in the UK in my house, does not sound a safe or sensible thing to do.

Yes. This is a recipe for civil unrest. Well done, Labour.

Wait until they start commandeering older people's houses to put them in.

Yes it’s an absolute disgrace when we have housing crisis, totally unnecessary to bring even more people here we have to pay for

The truth is kept away from the public. I've no idea what the endgame is but I'm assuming this is based on projections of our falling birthrate in the UK. I feel we are being replaced and I really fear for my children and their future.

Idk why crimes like the one below happen and they’re pretty much overlooked.