£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

Indeed, and what a fucking monumental mess this government is left with to try to clear up. In case you missed it, a Parliamentary term is 5 years. I will judge this government at the end of their term, not just over a year after coming into office (after a 14 year destruction of this country). That's how democracy works.

A mess created by the last government. 10 year contracts ending in 2029, so started in 2019

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

Yes debt servicing is up under Labour. We can’t afford that, taxes are being hiked too. And related to this thread no plan to actually smash the gangs.

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/10/27/the-sheer-scale-of-conservative-mismanagement-of-the-asylum-system-revealed/

Many of the contracts signed by the Home Office to provide accommodation were flawed, clauses to claim back excess profits by providers were rarely used and no penalties were issued by the Home Office for poor performance. No attempt was made to claw back any excess profits until last year.

As a result tens of millions of pounds are still in private providers’ bank accounts which, could have been collected by the Home Office to use for other public services.

The Tories really screwed us all over!

This government has made everything worse since coming in. Defending it is madness.

Small boats are higher. National debt is up, debt repayments are up. Gilt yields are worse. Unemployment is up. Taxes are higher. Businesses are exiting the UK. As are top rate taxpayers.

What a start.

Yep, courtesy of the taxpayer. Next month, Rachel will extort more money from us to continue to pay for it.

You can’t complain about it though, because it’s makes you a racist.

Well, I fucking hate it. I am sick of this country being a big old charity case. Charity needs to start at home and people need to start taking responsibility for themselves and their lives. If that makes me a racist or any other ist, I’m happy to be called a racist/ist.

I’ll await the @‘s.

Definitely not homeless families - that’s met by local councils

Completely agree.

Yep. Not many supporters left.

How is it charity when contracts were rewarded to companies who made big profits out of it?

Investing in vanity projects like Rwanda instead of the asylum system, good use of money?

How do you suggest people start taking responsibility for themselves in case of asylum seekers?

Complain away!
It's the people that blame the asylum seekers themselves for this mess that are more of a problem.

But this is like Brexit all over again. "If we leave the EU we'll have so much more money".

Even if, tomorrow, every single asylum seeker vanished from our shores, even if we cancelled every penny of foreign aid, this country would still be broke.

We have staggering debt and the interest payments on that are huge.

Our welfare bill is astronomical and increasing due to the ageing population and the consequent stage pension spending.

We are economically fairly inactive as a nation too.

Stopping all asylum support isn't going to touch the sides. It's a drop in the ocean.

It’s still quite a lot. £15bn plus payments to France and wherever else.

Borrowing is far too high and benefits cost a lot but if you could do as you say and end it it would resolve a problem plus save some money.

Edited as I read it as the UK paid France £15bn plus

I agree. It’s beyond a joke. On the one hand you have a situation where £15b is handed out to house migrants, and in only a month’s time we’ll have Rachel Reeves telling us we’ve all got to pay more tax for the poor NHS etc. Can’t imagine she’ll say we need to pay more to house migrants but that’s effectively what it’ll be.

This government, and successive ones before them, are not reading the room.

the report appears to refer to a 10 year cost of £15bn.

the deficit RR needs to fill is annual

In the fight to make this country less appealing to “chancers” we have successfully put off the great and the good- students, researchers, professionals etc who don’t want to come to the uk because it’s unwelcoming of foreigners and has a poor standard of living. They’re going to Canada, the EU or the Middle East who welcome them with open arms.

I agree!

Follow. The. Money.

Always.

the contracts were agreed under the Tory government……who are the stakeholders here?

The uk has really only been prosperous when allied to other countries resources- be that colonialism or offering a sanctuary for money launderers at the height of globalisation or aligning to the EU.

we haven’t a hope alone and will just continue to get more and more poor and miserable

The ageing population is not just a UK problem.

There is no excuse for 1000 people a day going onto PIP and nearly 10 million welfare claimants that aren’t pensioners.

New Labour and Bliar caused this, Tories made it worse, and Two Tier has just broken the camels back.

@Bagsintheboot @Whatafustercluck

Leaving the Dublin Agreement didn’t make the slightest bit of difference. The stats are publically available if you want to fact check.

Apologies for any spelling mistakes, I’m typing this without my glasses on, so it’s all a bit of a blur.

Absolutely. But state money to private equity, fantastic for shareholders to profit from the tax payer.