Four asylum-seekers costing the taxpayer an estimated £160,000 a year now living in a £575,000 luxury home – and accused of faking their Afghan nationalities to get into the UK
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14185169/Four-asylum-seekers-costing-taxpayer-estimated-160-000-year-living-575-000-luxury-home-accused-faking-Afghan-nationalities-UK.html
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Whenever I see “Daily Mail Exclusive”, I assume there are at least two mistakes/lies per syllable. Show me a corroborating source and I’ll take this seriously.
Can someone explain to me why this is valid use of tax payers money and the winter fuel allowance for pensioners is not? Asking for a friend.
Hey, here’s a little tip for you. If you block u/dailymail and u/Bunion-Bhaji, you won’t see this kind of shite in your feed.
I wonder what OP life is like that even on Boxing day, they’re posting this shite from the Daily fucking Mail.
Ah rage bate newspaper doing rage bait articles. Shocker. Let’s watch the rage unfold in the comments. These papers are there for you click so you can see one of the 25 ads on their site and earn them a penny. Shittiest news source you could find.
Such a waste of British taxes! Are these people tories?
Is that 160,000 per ‘asylum seeker’ or a total for the 4? I earn 26k a year what the fuck am I doing?
People are upset about this but those same people have no interest in trying to recover the hundreds of billions of quid given to Tory donors and mates of cabinet members over lockdown to provide PPE that doesn’t work, a track and trace that didn’t work and a thousand other things that did sweet f all to help.
“If we attack the source, it’s not really happening!”
£575k “luxury” home. ie it’s got a London post code and is therefore 3x the value it would be elsewhere in the country
Seems like the Mail is furious that we don’t have a working asylum system due to massive backlogs caused by the previous Government, or a functioning court system, so that the costs involved in the extended time it takes to get to the right decision are way too high,
No doubt they are also furious that a new semi detached house could cost £575,000, and that a landlord is likely ripping off the Government by renting it out to them.
I assume that’s their problem anyway, right?
Still, good to know that a house in Hertfordshire has (checks notes) “views of Hertfordshire”
Luxury Home and it looks like a bog standard new build.
There may be fraud going on but Daily Mail are trying to present this as a luxury home we’ve really set our standards low now.
Like from the picture in the article how does that look luxurious?
A 4 bed house for 4 people isn’t totally crazy (potential fraud notwithstanding).
ANNUAL DAY OFF IS OVER.
WE NOW RETURN YOU TO OUR SCHEDULED WALL TO WALL ASYLUM SEEKER AND BENEFITS SCROUNGER COVERAGE
So the Reagan era “welfare queen” for 21st britain?
*”Until recently they were living at Wembley’s Holiday Inn in north* [*London*](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/london/index.html)*, which has been completely booked by the* [*Home Office*](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/the-home-office/index.html) *for asylum seekers and is currently not accepting any customers.*
*But they are now all residing together in a new home in Hemel Hempstead, where they have all been ordered to remain as a condition of bail.*
*The 1,136 sq ft property, which has four bedrooms, an open plan ground floor and with ‘luxurious’ fitted kitchen with top-end appliances, was put up for sale for £575,000 in March 2023. It was sold in 2022 for £467,000, according to the Land Registry.”*
The real crime is that house being valued at £575,000…
Someone was telling me a local old guy passed away recently, he got found in a tent on the street
Its a real case with convenient numbers for outrage bait.
In the same did not dig deep on where is the real problem lies, but yeah, they want the outrage against foreigners not the oligopoly of private entity that inflating and sucking the asylum seeker budget.
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four indian trying to enter UK as fake asylum seeker. if they follow basic protocol, they were given 48 pound per week for daily needs.
So, where that 160.000 pound comes from? “supposedly” it comes from housing cost. the number pops out based on the estimate allocation per person in the total nation asylum budget. Not the Real cost for these 4 people.
originally they were kept in holiday inn room, after they got caught, they are put in a rented home while pending the decision on what happen next
i don’t know why they try to portray that damn home as mansion that are given to them or something.
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also, why the national budget balloon to 41k per person?
>*Experts said that the escalating costs had been driven in large part by the lack of available dispersal accommodation, such as shared housing, council flats, or housing association properties.*
>*This has resulted in the extensive use of hotel rooms, which cost around £145 per night per person, compared to only £14 for dispersal accommodation.*
>*There has also been a “glaring lack of effective oversight” of the contracts given to private providers of asylum accommodation, the think tank found.*
>*Researchers also said that a “****near-oligopoly position of these contractors over asylum accommodation and the lack of viable alternatives severely limit the Home Office’s ability to address underperformance****”.*
[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/migrant-asylum-seeker-home-office-housing-hotel-b2634213.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/migrant-asylum-seeker-home-office-housing-hotel-b2634213.html)
The Hitler loving daily Hate at it again, in the true Christmas spirit, spreading hatred amongst the Christians and Consistently scraping the bottom
First of all the cost of the home is immaterial if they don’t actually own it, which I presume they don’t. And even a cost or 40k per year per person is probably what a chronically ill elderly person costs to the UK, both pension and healthcare. Nevertheless, these stories are only ever going to breed resentment.
So the system works identifying people doing this and taking the necessary action?
All the middle aged tech redditors saying its not luxury lmao.
4 people to a 100sm is luxury by our young citizens standards. My room in my HMO is 12sqm. I share with 6/7 people. I work full time and pay £700 for half the space of an asylum seeker.
People in here attacking OP for sharing this of news instead of addressing the real issue of people claiming asylum left and right for whatever reason.
Spineless government, spineless people.
So ridiculous. People protested the hotels, so they are kept at a house until the courts can properly deal with them. The dailymail and it’s readers won’t be happy until everyone with brown skin is denied due process.
Crazy that the focus in this thread is on the DailyM*il (which, granted, is a shit rag), and not the actual story