Shabana Mahmood is a really horrible person whose policies are cruel. She’s one of the worst people in the Labour administration and should be fired immediately.
Asylum seekers in the UK are generally not allowed to work while they are waiting on a decision on their claim. If they have been waiting for more than a year, then they can apply for permission to work.
As a result, they are reliant on the Home Office for housing and support as they cannot work to pay for accommodation.
Marley Morris, associate director at the IPPR, said there are “better ways of bring down” costs of asylum such as “speeding up asylum processing and appeals, reforming the existing asylum contracts”.
Gotta make sure those browns will always remain in the Serf class and can never escape.
Neo-libs love debt. It’s how they control people.
I mean they do it to students. Don’t see why it’s taken them this long to get around to the asylum seekers. Next up, the unemployed.
The threshold for starting to pay back should probably be higher, however, and interest on it should be zero.
Can we bill the MPs to pay for their lunchtime drinks fully out of their own pockets, then, instead of having it subsidised by us?
Wait till you hear that their wages come out of our taxes
Say it ain’t so!
A stupid plan that’s aim is to appease Reform voters but fails to do even that. What happens to those that don’t work after being approved, or earn below whatever threshold they set? Hardly a deterrent if they don’t have to pay. Actually do the opposite and make people avoid full time work, or work all together.
I know the average Reform voter isn’t all there upstairs, but come on, even they can see through this. It’s embarrassing
Kind of how it works here in canada for a long time. And conservative pundits like to say they get free housing here. Its been frustrating.
That’s a worldwide thing I think. Do you also get any of these:
- They steal all our houses (The politicians I voted for only built mansions)
- They take all our jobs (that we don’t want to work at)
- They get free housing (not they do not, like you said)
- They are criminals (no evidence whatsoever for this, when you account for socioeconomic status)
- They are scared of pets (mostly dogs). (Just wtf)
- “Oh do I hear an accent?”
- It used to be so much better when we were all segregated.
And many, many more…
That whole criminal labelling is super annoying to fight. Because yes, SOME will be criminals.
But let’s look at the British public first. According to the Home Office, as of 2024, ~12.5 million people in the UK, out of 68 million, have a criminal conviction. That’s roughly 20% of the population.
Further numbers show that the 10-51 age range has a roughly 15% segment that had some sort of criminal conviction (this is just convictions, so ignoring all the cases where it did not go to court etc.), 8% for females, 25% for males…
Based on that, out of every 100 Britons that go to live abroad, AT LEAST 15 will be criminals. Yet do you see any country complaining about all Brits being criminals?
Let’s presume that the criminal rate of the asylum seekers is half of that of the UK’s, meaning 7 criminals out of 100. Their influx net lowers the ratio of criminals to “regular” population. And yet because of the handful of outliers that refuse to assimilate (and are often extradited/deported because of it), all of them get labelled a criminal, when in reality, the average Briton is much more likely to be a criminal themselves.
They are scared of pets (mostly dogs). (Just wtf)
Ok, that’s a new one for me
Are they going to provide 10k in support then?
Given what they’re paying for the hotels, probably. That shit ain’t cheap and was a racket from the start.
Personally I’m all for giving them an NI number ASAP and letting them work. They didn’t trek halfway across Europe to sit in 2 star hotels in shithole towns getting exploited by traffickers on Deliveroo… They want to work. Some of them are working regardless, just illegally and for far less than minimum wage.
will allow the Home Office to recover costs from adults who have been housed or who have received financial support while waiting on their asylum claim.
They’re already getting accommodation and financial support. I’m not entirely sure what the point of this is, on the grand scheme of things I can’t imagine these costs making a big dent in the finances of the country, and we’d probably spend a good chunk of money administrating and trying to recover this money.
Maybe it’s more about trying to discourage asylum seekers from coming here in the first place, or filtering out those who are genuinely in need.
It’s 100% about reinforcing the culture of fear and discouraging asylum - if they wanted to filter those in need they’d be spending the money to effectively administer asylum claims instead of leaving them in years of limbo.
To fill you in on the financial situation. Last year supporting asylum seekers cost the UK taxpayer £4.3 billion (office of national statistics).
So in the grand scheme of things £12m a day is a lot of money even at a national level. The income tax contribution from the lowest 10% of workers isn’t quite enough to cover this cost (HMRC 2026 tax bulletin).
…so in simple terms all of the income tax paid by millions of workers in part time jobs is spent supporting asylum seekers.
Obviously this year’s figures aren’t out yet but they are expected to be a little bit below last year’s because Labour have not renewed the hotel contracts the Tories set up, have increased the speed of processing a lot, reduced the evidence needed for a successful claim, have worked with french authorities to reduce people trafficking and are returning people with no legitimate asylum claim (whereas the Tories did nothing).
The cost could be reduced to about half by providing larger more specialised facilities for single, male asylum seekers but that’s seen as a bad thing.
