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Migrants get up to £2000 on bankcard after prison sentences

617 replies

Ihatetomatoes · 24/09/2025 22:14

Just watched 47 migrants being deported, costing hundreds of thousands, private flights, huge number of security guards, the migrants then get given cash cards! Back to Romania after committing crimes here including murder, sexual offences, pedophiles with money to help them resettle in their own country.

ITV news - our own go hungry and cold.

We are total mugs here in the UK.

On a separate story migrants having taxis to appointments, free NHS. I mean we have to get to our own way.

Mugs. No wonder many people are unhappy. These are convicted criminals, being pandered to.

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Crake1792 · 25/09/2025 03:36

WeirdyBeardyMarrowBabyLady · 24/09/2025 22:26

He’s not ‘getting votes’. He’s currently leading in some polls almost four years before a general strike election might be called based on populist policies he doesn’t have a plan for.

Well yes reform are getting votes, they did at the last general election and they gained a huge number of votes in the recent local elections, ultimately winning 677 seats. This was more than 30% of the seats being contested.

3tumsnot1 · 25/09/2025 04:14

Ihatetomatoes · 24/09/2025 22:19

Crazy. Just deport with no money.

It tells you why they pay in the article. Did you not read it?

‘It has long been the case that we do offer financial packages as an incentive to people to drop their claims and drop the attempts they make to stay in our country, and to board a flight and leave,"

it is pretty clear why they are going it…. they are paying them off as it’s far cheaper than going through the courts to try and remove them legally.

spoonbillstretford · 25/09/2025 04:40

NoSoupForU · 24/09/2025 22:31

This is the voluntary scheme, yes? They're incentivised to return home because it is far less complex, and subsequently far less expensive, for us to process.

They aren't illegal immigrants or asylum seekers. They are people who lived here with the right to remain.

The taxi costs for asylum seekers is due to health care provision not moving with the individual when they move them across the country and isn't the norm. Or do you think we should be expecting an asylum seeker to make their own way on a 250 mile trip to see a doctor, paying from their £9 a week?

Why do we need to send legal immigrants home at all?

beachcitygirl · 25/09/2025 04:44

yawn. Same old same old. Zero critical thinking. We actually live in a country where the law matters. People cannot be deported without due process.
man offer of voluntary deportation & some money is a LOT cheaper & quicker than court process.
if however you want to change into a country without due process and diligence change your username please to missfascist123

IDontHateRainbows · 25/09/2025 04:58

CrispyK · 24/09/2025 22:36

It’s like an incentive to become a career criminal tourist. Anything to actually stop them from repeatedly entering the country, committing a minor crime, short stay in prison then back home on a free flight with £2k in the bank?

I think they take biometric data so thry know which undocumented migrants are returning for another go in freebie Britain.

I don't know if these get insta-deported or another few weeks of hotel life

Nestingbirds · 25/09/2025 05:00

This really does need to be taken seriously, the lefties writing ‘yawn’ and ‘Hi Nige’ are they deliberately pushing for our country to break out in riots across the nation do we think?
Or are they just too thick to see how damaging their rhetoric is?

Dismissing 79% of the population’s opinion that action must be taken on immigration seems highly dangerous and provocative to me - especially given we have a government paralysed by indecision and inaction.

Theoturkeyistheonlyturkeyonmytable · 25/09/2025 05:04

A succession of weak government has got us here
Without a doubt it's a reform government next time ,and we all need to plan for that ,and how it will effect each of us .
Those who have current ilr need to be applying for the British passport while they can ,and those that can't ,need to be planning on what they will do in 4 years time .

xanthomelana · 25/09/2025 05:09

If they commit a crime they should be immediately deported with no cash bribe. It shouldn’t even be a debate, no crime is victimless and if anything happened to me I’d feel better knowing that the person was deported. Unfortunately we’ve got enough homegrown criminals that we can’t deport without adding to the numbers.

Theoturkeyistheonlyturkeyonmytable · 25/09/2025 05:10

Anyone who is currently here and can't apply for a passport for whatever reason,has 4years to plan what they will do when reform takes over .
Anyone planning on coming here ,will surely to goodness find out about the country they are hoping to settle in ,and see all the anger towards immigration,and , reform are constantly in the news ,no one could say reform have not been Cristal clear about their plans ...so anyone continuing to still come here ,by whatever means ,will know exactly what to expect.

Pearshapedpear · 25/09/2025 05:11

StrawberryJangle · 24/09/2025 22:19

It's been repeatedly reported today that deportation and 2K is far cheaper than keeping them here.

Doesn’t make it right though does it

beachcitygirl · 25/09/2025 05:20

So. Judge & jury & conviction without due process. FFS hello 1939 - how you been.? My papa didn’t die for you lot to clap welcome to fascism in the uk

LBFseBrom · 25/09/2025 05:24

For a moment I thought this site was the Daily Mail.

How do you know these are all criminals?

IDontHateRainbows · 25/09/2025 05:35

beachcitygirl · 25/09/2025 05:20

So. Judge & jury & conviction without due process. FFS hello 1939 - how you been.? My papa didn’t die for you lot to clap welcome to fascism in the uk

Yawn. Have you not evolved from calling everyone who doesn't agree with you on immigration a fascist? What if its a blonde e haired immigrant is it still fascism then to not want uncontrolled immigration?

BumpyaDaisyevna · 25/09/2025 05:38

It would cost more to enter into a contract with eg Serco or another security company to remove them in handcuffs etc etc. The two grand is a lot cheaper!

Nestingbirds · 25/09/2025 05:41

Along with taxis I think we can safely say Reform really are going to be our next government.

I really didn’t think we would ever see this in my lifetime, but the utter abject failure of the Conservative’s infighting and poor behaviour - and Labour’s total incompetence and paralysis (if Starmer even makes it to Christmas that is given the state of this administration is in will be a miracle)

The Labour government have shown themselves to be utterly useless, and even the most devoted will never vote for this mess again. Ed Davey is the biggest clown and can not be taken seriously.

There is literally no one else to vote for… either reform or abstain it seems. I can see an early election being called, we really can not go on as we are. We will be bankrupt in four years….

YelloDaisy · 25/09/2025 05:51

This is ridiculous - the posters here must have v comfortable lives - it’s not us that’s mugs it’s a useless Gov.

Theoturkeyistheonlyturkeyonmytable · 25/09/2025 05:51

I'm on this thread obviously..but in real life I'm at the point where I don't bother discussing this stuff any more.
I do follow the polls and the current mood ,and there is no doubt at all , reform are our next government
Starmer is not going to call an early election,nor will his back benchers,,they are here to get their money ,to coast along for the next 4 years ,unable to make the necessary changes needed to keep reform out .
I didn't know migrants get a gift card of £2000 as golden goodbye..but I can't say it surprises me ..I do hope they are finger printed and in the system to stop them using that £2000 to pay a smuggling gang to bring them straight back and in to a cozy hotel...but it wouldn't surprise me if that is exactly where the £2000 goes .
It's a shit show currently

ASimpleLampoon · 25/09/2025 05:53

Nonsense. Links to the evidence

MsJinks · 25/09/2025 05:56

BrisPerm · 24/09/2025 22:42

You know what else is disgusting? Putting illegals up in hotels whilst British homeless sleep on the streets.

if they could come up with a solution to housing illegals, why couldn’t they come up with the same solution to getting British homeless off the streets? Why were hotels not used for them?

Gov’t deal with asylum seekers, local councils with homeless. Councils do use hotels for the homeless. There are also hostels for the longer term homeless. These longer term homeless often have issues that mean they break the requirements of their hotel/hostel eg/ drinking/drug taking so are on the streets again.
Neither solution is perfect, but perhaps we could have compassion for both.

YelloDaisy · 25/09/2025 05:56

If coming illegally to the U.K. means you get to work on the black market then £2K I can see more immigrants coming not less it’s a great incentive

User37482 · 25/09/2025 06:07

Tbh 2k to get a predator to fuck off vs them fighting deportation and then getting leave to remain because our system is a joke seems fine to me. It’s a good deal for us.

Theoturkeyistheonlyturkeyonmytable · 25/09/2025 06:10

User37482 · 25/09/2025 06:07

Tbh 2k to get a predator to fuck off vs them fighting deportation and then getting leave to remain because our system is a joke seems fine to me. It’s a good deal for us.

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Yeah ..untill they use that money to come back on a boat ..
Who knows at what point they get finger printed when getting of the boat ,if at all knowing this government..it's probably a violation of their human rights to be finger printed on arrival

Everythingwillbeokeventually44 · 25/09/2025 06:10

OP some of the responses here off the loony lefts are shocking, no wonder the country is in such a shitty state. Some people are absolutely clueless.

It genuinely makes me so angry that the government are spending money left right and centre on people that have never had any legal rights to be here whilst our own people are living hand to mouth, our veterans are freezing to death on the streets, our NHS is crumbling and barely fit for purpose, some NHS referrals such as rheumatology by me has a year and a half wait list. Our police are so busy protecting hotels and arresting people over social media posts that they are no longer dealing with real crime, our schools are full to the brim. Money should be spent at home on our own, improving the lives of people who've worked and paid into the system.

Blows my mind that people are outraged by people putting flags up to send a message to the government but aren't outraged at the mess the country is in and how bloody awful our government are treating their own people.

The majority of immigrants who came here legally and have worked hard, built good lives for themselves and contributed massively to society now want to return to their own countries due to the mess of the country, so what will we be left with? It's a scary thought!!

MrsBlobby64 · 25/09/2025 06:11

The thought of Reform getting in makes me feel physically sick tbh.
Dont believe every every single thing you hear or read in the press - especially run by people like Murdoch or Rothermere who have vested interests of their own in a right wing government. Labour were left a shitshow and a terrible backlog of migrants to process - at least things are moving which is more than the Tories did. Give them a chance..

Theoturkeyistheonlyturkeyonmytable · 25/09/2025 06:17

That used to be my line about labour ,...give them a chance..
I've lost all faith in them .
Not that I voted for them or had much faith to start with ..
One of the things that massively angers me ,is the current government using the police force to do their dirty work ,arresting people for Facebook posts rather than catching criminals
Knife crime ,rape ,assaults ,..I want to police to be focused on these ,and making our streets safer..not bloody monitoring the sodding internet