Will you sign up to the new refugee sponsorship scheme?

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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

No. The women. Their kids. No men. I'm not being naive, I'm being feminist.

Kindertransport brought 10,000 children into a UK population of 38 million. That’s nothing like trying to bring 25 million women to the UK or even Europe.

Ok so change it. Women and children only.

What number of women being raped and murdered is acceptable to you?

I don't want 20 million new people suddenly brought into the UK, particularly not from Afghanistan.

@C152the issue is that the commitment to pay by a relative is only a year. After that, the cost seems to fall on the state. I think that the cost should be for the full time to someone getting ILR, not 12 months. That’s where madness lies and you’re going to get exploitation where people sponsor a “friend” who is a fellow countryman in return for payment by the back door.

Yes, the impact on overstretched services for the people already here needs to be considered.

Mahmood's scheme is crazy. It might work in Canada which is huge and sparsely populated. But there's so much pressure on services in the UK already.

I think this is a good idea. It allows people who really want to help to do something. And refugees need real people they can rely on more than governent with its inhumane boundaries.

It also means that the people who want to help take in the responsibility, rather than people who don’t share this desire

You think they would come without their sons? No chance. So you'd need to bring in the women, the girls and the boys.

It's a no from me.

But the government won't. They seem to want these men here.

That's totally not true. Is the sponsor going to provide healthcare, dental treatment, education, translation services, long term housing? No, it will be govt and councils, ie tax payers, who will have to provide all that.

You’d need to bring sons too and why stop there, Sudan and Iran have millions that would be in the same position plus other countries.

The problem is: We have too many people dependent on the state and too few people supporting the state. Solution : import more people who will be dependent on the state. I don't understand the logic.

We're only a small island with overstretched services and no money because too many are claiming benefits. If the benefits bill keeps going up all of us who work or have worked all our lives will be paying more for these 'Skilled' migrants. More houses, more benefits for immigrants and less for the natives plus higher taxes to pay for it all. White privilege I assume. Aren't we lucky?

The 'logic' is that they all get their rent paid for by the taxpayers and that helps boost the income of thousands of landlords, many of them in Parliament

That's a hard no.

If you have kids you also pay the price of knowing your kids will have fewer opportunities for jobs, housing and basic amenities because of the population being artificially grown in places and also migrants being funded into private lets by councils, handed benefits which they almost always continue to depend on, pricing out your children from having their future homes and kids and lives of their own.

Who cares though on woke island, all cultures are equal, right? Just because your child was born, raised and educated here doesn't give them a right to live here or build something for themselves, that's what they call 'entitlement'.

No, no, no.

There are some European nations who don't accept mass immigration. They have lower crime rates

Yes, like Poland, who don't accept migrants from Africa, Middle East etc (they did take in Ukrainians). But they've said no to third world migration and their cities are clean and safe and a joy to walk around.

Because of Brexit, those peaceful Poles can't come here any more.

Exactly. Used to be the same with Hungary, but I'm worried about the changes the new guy will make. I've been to Budapest and it's just so nice to walk around I feel so safe and secure.

They can, they can apply for a work visa. The issue with Brexit was making everyone equal in the application process. We could have chosen to made it super easy for those culturally similar to stay and work here. We had a right to control in the end, but we could have made it easy for those we wanted to come.

The point is eastern Europe are selective about who gets into their countries. They make no apology about it.

We don't actually need people to come into the UK as we have over a million NEETS and many others struggling to find work. The arguments of Mahmood that we need to accept thousands of refugees on top of all the illegals that arrive every day is crazy. It makes no sense.

It makes a lot of sense if most of your income comes from property investments. More people = higher rents and house prices
Who cares about quality of life when there's more money to be made?