£15bn on hotels?

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While Rachel Reeves is trying to find £10-£30 billion by more taxes, we are spending £15bn on hotels for asylum seekers, it beggars beyond belief

news.sky.com/story/home-office-needs-to-get-a-grip-on-asylum-seeker-accommodation-after-chaotic-response-mps-say-13458475

Plus the rent contributions, plus council reductions, plus free school meals. plus free dentistry plus plus plus. It all adds up to a very easy life for those who can't be arsed to do anything productive. Not luxury but easy.

It is hard to go from shutting people out of work to getting them back. The bill is growing and unsustainable though.

And see compliance fall through the floor next time there is a pandemic. Ppl were TOLD to stay home and not work.

So we have large numbers of men illegally entering our country, some who are actual terrorists, rapists and murders and a number are actively hostile to our way of life but we’re not even allowed to call them ‘incomers’??

Are we allowed to call the man from Sudan who stabbed Rhiannon Whyte in the head 23 times in a ‘frenzied attack’ an incomer? What about ‘not one of us’? Is that allowed in your rather draconian aim to silence essential conversation on the issue?

most people don’t hate them. There are nuances of language

i would rather they didn’t come especially when they won’t adapt to our way of life and are costing a lot of money

These threads don't half evolve....

There was a programme years ago where an MP tried to live on UB and wasn't able to. It would be really hard especially once any number of consumer electricals broke.

£400 for food and utilities. Sounds doable short term. But no TV, internet, phone, car, clothes, etc etc. It should be that working full time should significantly increase comfort levels. That people don't must have a huge variety of reasons beyond just laziness.

I think you need to look at the worldwide statistics around long COVID.

Just going to leave this here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ypkd57n97o

just awful

Absolutely horrendous.

Was the perpetrator an asylum seeker? If not, how is this linked to the op?

Was the perpetrator an asylum seeker? If not, how is this linked to the op?

It's in the article. 22 year old Afghan national.

That area is Hillingdon and it used to be a nice residential area.

why is this government or previous governments hellbent on destroying our way of life

That doesn't tell me about their immigration status though.

That doesn't tell me about their immigration status though.

I'm sure they were a doctor or an engineer.

What does that have to do with anything?

Why does their immigration status matter?

Because this is a thread about asylum hotels.
Generally speaking it doesn't matter at all, but it does matter in the context of this thread.

That is awful. He was trying to help and this happened. It’s horrendous.

If he’s described as an ‘Afghan National’, he clearly hasn’t been here for long. Given his age, he is clearly not a doctor (as some pro immigration types like to claim about all migrants) and he is unlikely to be on any kind of essential worker visa. I guess he could be here on a student visa or he could be an asylum seeker straight off a small boat and into a hotel.

It’s not as relevant as the fact that he has come here and murdered an innocent man. Like the young migrant from Sudan murdered an innocent woman. We need to stop men who hate us and want to kill us entering and residing in our country. We need to stop the hate preachers and radical hate preachers who actively hate us and advocate stoning women and murdering us en masse. The government need to work out how to achieve that. If they have the will. I’m not sure they care enough.

Did the Tories have a Fast Lane for hotel owners like the PPE farce?

Have a look at Serco, Mears and Clearsprings Ready Homes and their lucrative contracts. Providing the minimum for maximum cost. Boris Johnson's government Sioned off on those contracts in 2019 and the Home Office is locked in to them until 2029.

Of course this is horrific
So is this
news.sky.com/story/man-charged-over-racially-aggravated-rape-in-walsall-13459304

He arrived in 2020 on the back of a lorry, so yes an asylum seeker.

No. A refugee.

The checks listed in earlier discussion didn’t flag anything.