I guess I’m a far right racist for saying I don’t want my taxes going towards this.
entropy_bucket on
>Government departments submit estimated spending to Parliament up to four times a year, so that MPs can approve the use of public money in advance.
I can’t believe this country is so bad at this. 7.6bn overspend is just madness.
palewretch on
Austerity was a real winner. How many border force and immigration inspectors, judges and solicitors could have been employed for £7.6 biliion?
Consequences of our actions, as a nation we voted for populists and they populisted us hard.
da_killeR on
Instead of paying for hotels, why can’t we process asylum seekers in overseas territories? Also why hotels? Why not build a big camp site in the country somewhere and process people one by one? Hotels seems kind of a strange option since they cost so much money and take away from an actual guest using the room. It not like we owe illegal immigrant a 5 star hotel experience? A makeshift campsite should be adequate for someone breaking the law.
One_Million_Beers on
I cannot believe this article is not higher upvoted.
The budget was 390 mil, and the department has spent 6.4 bn. This is absolutely outrageous. This is such a large amount of money being spent, without anyone’s consent.
No one has voted for this money to be spent on housing illegals.
If urgent action is not taken I will be off the belief that there is some conspiracy going on by the Government, both Tory and Labour, to import as many illegal foreigners as possible.
Someone please try and change my mind because this article has left me furious.
Perfidious0Albion on
So with a neutral finance hat on (finance being my day job) while this is obviously a shit show – it’s highly likely a lot of this money would have to be spent either way. Successful claimants need to be sheltered as much as ones on a waiting list.Â
This is roughly 70-100k people per year that do not have to have the skills and English proficiency that work visas require. Even outside of that, there isn’t a vast stock of jobs waiting to be filled right now that these people can just walk into. That problem will not go away whether it’s budgeted for it not.
Our acceptance rate is currently double that of France, stories abound of people being rejected in two/three European countries and finding success here. We are objectively a soft touch by European standards. When people are rejected – they often cannot be deported under current rules.Â
The Rwanda plan wasn’t a random act of ideological cruelty – it was a desperate act by a government with few good options. Labour will run into a similar problem now – there is no meaningful way to reduce the intake without being vastly more punitive on both acceptance rates and deportation, both of which will likely involve long court battles (i.e. years) with human rights organisations.
This isn’t going away simply through ‘better government’ as people seem to think it will.
Snoo36413 on
So they’ve gone over budget by 7.6 billion and Kier has warned of Octobers ”painful” budget, yet they are just spunking money up the wall on this? Nice one.
AcademicIncrease8080 on
What an absolute travesty and a complete waste of money. We have been repeatedly failed by our political class who are just totally out of their depth. No illegal migrants who have arrived via smuggling gangs should be allowed to stay, it’s really simple.
We’re in this quagmire because the ECHR, UN Refugee Convention & our domestic asylum legislation are all combining to allow illegal economic migrants to clog up our asylum system and ultimately hijack our asylum resources.
We have known what legal treaties maintain this status quo for decades but our sluggish Westminster and Whitehall establishment have… stuck their heads in the sand and done absolutely nothing about it, despite the fact they know this causes huge public anxiety and that it would make them wildly popular if they solved it – but they choose to let it continue.
lookatmeman on
The Eligibility criteria are so open to claim asylum it’s no wonder there are so many applicants. Just about every non western country would have a good proportion of their population passing the checks. Why can’t we have a blacklist of countries we just don’t accept asylum from,. I’m sorry India has problems but it is not not like Afghanistan, no ones life is in peril.
most_crispy_owl on
On X there’s videos going round in Ireland of these camps being built with large tents on plots of land. I think that’s a good idea. Better than paying for hotels or ruining communities
Virtual-Guitar-9814 on
Can our government find lower cost asylum seekers from overseas?
Miserable-Advisor945 on
This, in tandem with the reports of various private businesses profiting off this shambles shows it for what it really was – a means to stealthly funnel tax payers money into private, Tory donors and ex-mps, hands.
Serco, Britannia hotels, etc all profited massively off this, as long as they wasn’t processed they was cash cows.
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£7.6bn more than forecasted.
I guess I’m a far right racist for saying I don’t want my taxes going towards this.
>Government departments submit estimated spending to Parliament up to four times a year, so that MPs can approve the use of public money in advance.
I can’t believe this country is so bad at this. 7.6bn overspend is just madness.
Austerity was a real winner. How many border force and immigration inspectors, judges and solicitors could have been employed for £7.6 biliion?
Consequences of our actions, as a nation we voted for populists and they populisted us hard.
Instead of paying for hotels, why can’t we process asylum seekers in overseas territories? Also why hotels? Why not build a big camp site in the country somewhere and process people one by one? Hotels seems kind of a strange option since they cost so much money and take away from an actual guest using the room. It not like we owe illegal immigrant a 5 star hotel experience? A makeshift campsite should be adequate for someone breaking the law.
I cannot believe this article is not higher upvoted.
The budget was 390 mil, and the department has spent 6.4 bn. This is absolutely outrageous. This is such a large amount of money being spent, without anyone’s consent.
No one has voted for this money to be spent on housing illegals.
If urgent action is not taken I will be off the belief that there is some conspiracy going on by the Government, both Tory and Labour, to import as many illegal foreigners as possible.
Someone please try and change my mind because this article has left me furious.
So with a neutral finance hat on (finance being my day job) while this is obviously a shit show – it’s highly likely a lot of this money would have to be spent either way. Successful claimants need to be sheltered as much as ones on a waiting list.Â
This is roughly 70-100k people per year that do not have to have the skills and English proficiency that work visas require. Even outside of that, there isn’t a vast stock of jobs waiting to be filled right now that these people can just walk into. That problem will not go away whether it’s budgeted for it not.
Our acceptance rate is currently double that of France, stories abound of people being rejected in two/three European countries and finding success here. We are objectively a soft touch by European standards. When people are rejected – they often cannot be deported under current rules.Â
The Rwanda plan wasn’t a random act of ideological cruelty – it was a desperate act by a government with few good options. Labour will run into a similar problem now – there is no meaningful way to reduce the intake without being vastly more punitive on both acceptance rates and deportation, both of which will likely involve long court battles (i.e. years) with human rights organisations.
This isn’t going away simply through ‘better government’ as people seem to think it will.
So they’ve gone over budget by 7.6 billion and Kier has warned of Octobers ”painful” budget, yet they are just spunking money up the wall on this? Nice one.
What an absolute travesty and a complete waste of money. We have been repeatedly failed by our political class who are just totally out of their depth. No illegal migrants who have arrived via smuggling gangs should be allowed to stay, it’s really simple.
We’re in this quagmire because the ECHR, UN Refugee Convention & our domestic asylum legislation are all combining to allow illegal economic migrants to clog up our asylum system and ultimately hijack our asylum resources.
We have known what legal treaties maintain this status quo for decades but our sluggish Westminster and Whitehall establishment have… stuck their heads in the sand and done absolutely nothing about it, despite the fact they know this causes huge public anxiety and that it would make them wildly popular if they solved it – but they choose to let it continue.
The Eligibility criteria are so open to claim asylum it’s no wonder there are so many applicants. Just about every non western country would have a good proportion of their population passing the checks. Why can’t we have a blacklist of countries we just don’t accept asylum from,. I’m sorry India has problems but it is not not like Afghanistan, no ones life is in peril.
On X there’s videos going round in Ireland of these camps being built with large tents on plots of land. I think that’s a good idea. Better than paying for hotels or ruining communities
Can our government find lower cost asylum seekers from overseas?
This, in tandem with the reports of various private businesses profiting off this shambles shows it for what it really was – a means to stealthly funnel tax payers money into private, Tory donors and ex-mps, hands.
Serco, Britannia hotels, etc all profited massively off this, as long as they wasn’t processed they was cash cows.
‘Private firms profiting from UK asylum hotels’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64991234
‘Britannia profits’
https://x.com/sue_lees/status/1299407200734117891?t=cv9veEYzqE7_Vph_Bo_8jg&s=19
According to Migration Watch, £1.3 billion pound is spent in hotel accommodation for 25 thousand refugees. That’s £142 per night.
This is theftÂ