How the UK became dependent on asylum hotels – and how much it now costs
How the UK became dependent on asylum hotels – and how much it now costs
Posted by Gold_Tension3721
How the UK became dependent on asylum hotels – and how much it now costs
How the UK became dependent on asylum hotels – and how much it now costs
Posted by Gold_Tension3721
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Seems like something that had somewhat good intentions to start with and has now just completely spiralled out of control.
As the article states, there’s not a single person I know who doesn’t want them scrapped across the political spectrum.
So only 1/5 of savings the recent welfare bill should deliver
The previous Tory govt loved a policy that privatises masses of public money while putting immigrants who are barred from making any contribution in struggling communities.
It’s serves the narratives of the their client press brilliantly. Stopping the processing of claims was a great move for Tory aims.
My mum says the only borders britain has is in Ireland.
It’s important to remember that “ending the use of asylum hotels” actually means just shifting these people into social housing/HMOs at the increased expense of local authority budgets instead. They’ll be even more embedded in our communities and even more dispersed across the country.
Labour genuinely think it’s the hotels themselves people are angry about, not the fact that they’re here and keep coming here in increased numbers.
The accommodation for these people only represents a partial element of what they’re costing us. “Ending the use of hotels” is a complete distraction, they simply need to be deported, every single one of them.
China built a hospital with 1000 beds in 10 days.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200203-coronavirus-china-builds-hospital-in-10-days
Maybe container buildings are not luxury accomodation but for asylum seekers they should be a fair deal while they wait.
And they can be built (purchased) for relatively cheap and quickly.
Asylum hotels are a Tory scam that’s still going on.
1/ stop processing asylum claims
2/ privatise the duty of care
3/ give Tory hotel owners/mates contracts of £150 per person per night
4/ make sure the asylum hotels are in Labour constituencies
If the government opened asylum housing up to the general public at a discounted £100 per night, there would be queues round the block of people offering up their spare rooms for £3000 a month.
Even at £50 a night it’s nearly £17k a year.
Maybe some of the ‘poor pensioners living alone in an empty house’ could do their part to help…
A, few big changes that would significantly reduce demand for asylum accommodation in general without needing to withdraw from international human rights / refugee treaties and still be humane:
1) Hire significantly more asylum case workers, and ensure they’re well trained. Apparently, Rishi increased recruitment, but to get them active ASAP curtailed their training, leading to a significant increase in errors and omissions at tribunal (presumably delaying resolution of their cases). But a significant increase in well trained casewirkers could help decide cases quicker and reduce the backlog.
2) Introduce a screening early in the process to weed out obvious fakees,so they’re not clogging up the queue.
3) Limit re-applications for those with Appeal Rights Exhausted: set a time limit for fresh applications and use a screening process to determine if they’ve provided substansive new evidence.
4) If possible, negotiate a returns agreement with France and set up an asylum office there, so the cohort that arrive here through “irregular” routes are swiftly sent back to France, while those who’ve been processed in France and have a valid claim are imported directly.
5) Probably harder to achieve, but as part of the application process, compile a barebones CV and list any close relatives in the UK, so those who are either likely to be self sufficient if granted refugee status or have a close relative who can adequately support them without recourse to public funds can be prioritised.
6) Even harder: do deals with countries for the cohort who can’t be returned to their home country but either have an incompatible ideology (e.g. Believe the natural duty of women is to be housewives and mothers, so have Big Problems with women’s liberation) or have committed serious Crimes Against The Person. Even better if we don’t have to bribe them with the full equivalent cost of supporting and accommodating them here (*cough* Rwanda *cough*).
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