Womens Safety Initiative

[happydappy2]

Anyone following them on twitter? They've just posted that our gov't spends about 8 times more money housing illegal immigrants in hotels, 3.1 billion, than it does on DV support services, 400 million, each year.

Its time to put our women first-I agree.

I despair that our gov't is prioritising people who have entered the country illegally, when they could improve the courts system for dealing with rape. The current wait for trial is about 7 years....our money that we pay in tax is being used incredibly unfairly.

https://x.com/WomenSafety_UK/status/1942576147403063554

Does it have to be either/or? They're not 'illegal immigrants', they're asylum seekers.

I thought the Labour party promised to half domestic violence in 10 years. As far as I'm aware they are working on it.

they've entered the country illegally.....

Asylum seekers are allowed, under law, to enter a country without being penalised, in order to claim asylum.

Asylum seekers staying in HO accommodation while their claims are being processed, aren't illegal.

Let's not make it a race to the bottom. We should as a country be able to support women AND asylum seekers.

People only get housed and supported while their asylum claim is assessed if they are following the legal process of claiming asylum. They are not illegal immigrants even if they entered the country in an unauthorised manner. Either their claim will be successful and they will be granted leave to remain entirely legally, or they will be unsuccessful and will be deported. Illegal immigrants who are here for economic reasons do not get housed and supported, they vanish into the shadow economy and do not attempt to claim asylum. The easiest way to cut the bill for supporting asylum seekers would be to invest in more people and resources for assessing asylum claims quickly so that people don't have to hang in limbo for so long. Somewhat less easy would be to create a structure that allowed asylum seekers to work and earn to support themselves while their claims are being assessed - but there are barriers to doing that so if we won't allow it, we have to support them.

It is also important to fund women's DV shelters and services but only a racist with a dogwhistle to blow on would link this to first trying to get rid of foreigners in order to do so.

In 2014 or 2015 I read that the two donkey shelters in the UK recieve more funding than all the women's shelters put together. If that is true that is even more appalling.

Donkeys are cute and much more photogenic than a woman with a black eye and broken teeth. It's completely irrelevant to this thread though - the donkey sanctuaries recieve no public funding, just ordinary people choosing to leave all their worldly goods to Donkey Sanctuaries in their Will - generally as a "fuck you" to their families who might have been expecting to inherit, or sometimes a "fuck you" to the government as an estate that is over the Inheritance Tax threshold can avoid paying any tax if the testator gives a charitable bequest equal to the difference between the suze of thr estate and the Tax threshold. The fact that such legacies massively outweigh the pitance that Women's Shelters recieve is evidence that the Inheritance Tax laws need reforming as much as it is an indictment of how little the government supports such initiatives, but most charitable ventures rely more on private donations than they do on public funds.

I bet most of those bequests for donkeys were from women.