£40,000 per family to leave UK should be open to everyone

[Ablondiebutagoody]

Labour Government to pay failed asylum seekers up to 40 grand per family to leave the UK (10 grand per person).

I want a piece of the action and considering it is taxpayer funded, it should be open to all.

Just do what the immigrants do, get the money and leave then return a week later illegally AGAIN. Win win.

£158k?! Where is this, the Ritz?

Anyway, it would be good value to get rid of me too. Pension liability, my costs to the NHS etc. etc.

Yes indeed. And playing devil's advocate, what's to stop them coming back to the UK, sometime in the (not too distant) future???

As long as you surrendered your citizenship, sure. If you hold it that cheaply.

If you need a lift to the airport, just PM me.

It's sort of working here in Sweden. It's not a new incentive here but up until this year they offered very little money so few took the offer. The current offer is around £30K per adult, so a family with two parents would get £60K. The majority of those who have applied for it are Syrian citizens and the first few have been approved.

Just incredible, this country is finished

I think it's restricted to families that are costing the state upwards of £100kpa to support, so £40k is going to save the taxpayer money.

The problem with the country making a similar offer to its own tired, poor, and huddled masses yearning to breathe free, is that you need a destination country that is obliged to take you. Immigrant families have a home country that they have been trying to get away from but in some cases maybe with £40,000 they might have a chance to make a better life for themselves there assuming that their "failed" asylum case is correctly failed and they won't actually be in mortal danger there (if they are genuinely fleeing danger than £40k isn't nearly enough to return to somewhere dangerous). An equivalently expensive family of UK citizens doesn't have any other country that is obliged to take them in (unless Rwanda would be happy to take in any family of unqualified benefit recipients who fancy making a new life for themselves there?)

This.

I don't know what the deal in going to be in the UK but in Sweden you will have to pay back what you received if you return to the country. You can also not be a Swedish citizen or have any kind of debt in Sweden (including student debt) or you won't be eligible.

Can you be a UK (or ex UK) citizen?

How on earth did you come to that amount, it comes to just over £13K per month, which is absolutely ridiculous. I would love to see that broken down into the various costs.

Have you contributed to the country though through taxes? (You may or may not have) but these people definitely haven’t or certainly not enough to justify all the money that’s spent on them

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j559146e6o

It's in the bbc article on this.

They haven't specified exactly which countries you can move back to but you can't move to the EU/EES for example, and it's more geared towards immigrants who have fled for safety reasons and who can now move back as the situation in their home country is safer so I doubt an application from a UK citizen would be approved.

Definitely
No links or sources or anything, just "wind "em up and watch "em goooooo" 🙄😁

A goadiness scale, how wonderful, every liberal society really should have one.

I refer you to my previous answer

Except there is no guarantee you would not come back.

The courts would force us to take you back because you’re not an asylum seeker.

I think it will encourage more to come.

You could pay me off so that I don't involve the courts.

I can think of a few things that would be even better value...

The fact that they believe there would be an uptake does tell us one thing though - people who are willing to return back to their contries of origin for financial consideration, were clearly not in the kind of danger they were claiming.

Why are we housing or paying for failed asylum seekers at all…

You fail you get deported it should be that simple. Yes I say should.

If you are going to fuck off with forty grand of my taxpaid money then I want to be 100% sure you ain't coming back.

So that means you have to give up your citizenship (and I couldn't care less what citizenship you take up instead).

As I said: £40k for your UK citizenship ? You hold yourself cheap, to paraphrase Shakespeare

Well situations can improve. The war is Syria broke out 15 years ago, it was truly dire at the time. Now it's much better but if you have zero money you can't afford to move back of course so without financial help they are stuck. It's sort of the lesser of two evils, pay them a big amount now and then it's done or pay a big amount for an unspecified amount of time.

They won't have UK citizenships to give up. But it will probably be a case of them having to repay the money if they do return.