Asylum seekers should be forced to pay back the cost of housing them in hotels with ‘student loan-style scheme’, Tories say

What I’m taking from this is that the Tories think student loan type arrangements are a punishment. Cool stuff.

Local council elections are just round the corner. I expect a plethora of ridiculous, headline grabbing proposals like this.
Remember the Rwanda scheme started life as a halfwit publicity stunt for local council elections. 

Asylum seekers should not be housed in hotels in the first place when private companies use this as a blatant opportunity to fleece the state and profiteer. So many crumbling hotels which would struggle to charge visitors £20 a night instead charge the state *thousands of pounds* a month per asylum seeker they house.

Many of these properties are operated by individuals with close connections to their local councils or national political parties. This is brazen corruption practised by national/local politicians, the same sort of corruption we see around the provisions of social housing, homeless shelters, and plenty of other properties rented by the state. Yet right-wing press and politicians instead blame this farce on asylum seekers themselves. It’s the perfect racket.

The government could incredibly easily implement compulsory purchase orders for these buildings (because, due to neglect, they’re all falling apart anyway) and run them for a fraction of the cost. But that would remove the opportunity for widespread corruption and political patronage to go on, so they’ll just continue allowing asylum seekers to take the blame for this farce.

If they cant work/dont find work/refuse to work, then they fall in to the benefits system. Where we give them money for fuck all.

Like what are we trying to do with the asylum system, bring people from poverty to bring them into another system where they’re in poverty and as such can never integrate with society?

How long are we gonna keep fucking asylum cases up? until we finally realize we need to shut it down, re-think it for a year or two and then open it up again?

Cool – so if successful, instead of pursuing legal work and paying tax, they would be encouraged to ACTUALLY “scrounge” like they always get accused of

Because why the fuck bother working a low paid job just to get taxed into oblivion and be made to pay on top in a spiral of ever growing taxation?

Most would likely end up being caught in modern day slavery on the promise of cash in hand

Sounds precisely like a Tory policy to me

As a very right wing, anti-immigration type of guy, this is extremely stupid. It’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from the Tories – silly, convoluted non-solutions so that they can posture as being anti- mass immigration when in fact they are the party that has been by far the most pro-immigration in British history and with the exception of Germany and perhaps Sweden the most pro-immigration in European history.

There is an extremely obvious and effective solution to mass immigration, which is to enforce a normative interpretation of the law. The absurd situation we have had over the past few years where we have had, for example, Albanians, who have no conceivable reason to need asylum anywhere, and Pakistanis, who are from a country on the other side of the world that is not at war with anybody but itself (and arguably the Afghan Taliban their government once supported), claiming asylum in a country which has no connection with them whatsoever is a patent abuse of the Refugee Conventions and the spirit in which they were written. The same goes for student visas.

This won’t work, they will still come and will just not pay off their loans, like how most students will never pay off their debt either.

We should **only** be taking in vetted refugees direct from refugee camps in active warzones, that way we know exactly who we’re giving asylum to, and that they are genuine refugees. It also means we can prioritise those who are most vulnerable e.g. women and children.

We need an introduction of zero tolerance for all illegal channel migrants, until we have this approach the economic migrants will continue to arrive in large numbers, because there are huge incentives to reach the UK.

Nope just deport every single one and their families please.

Capitalising on people’s misery is back to BAU for the conservatives.

How is that gonna work, a significant portion of them don’t ever get well paid jobs and have few or no skills. Those that do have skills and education are generally the ones with the most legit claim- they wouldn’t have left their homes otherwise. The issue is the economic migrants playing the system which is frankly a joke and most of them lack the skills, the knowledge, the training or how to speak English properly.

A complete waste of civil service time unlikely to yield a net benefit, an apt summary of the last 14 years.

How many Vietnamese or Albanian workers being targeted by traffickers is this going to deter? Absolutely none. “You currently live on £5k a year, but if you come here and earn £26k, we will take a small % on anything above it!”

How does it help anyone who’s genuinely got a reasonable claim to set up a life here? Also none.

14 years in power and this is only now the “solution” now. It’s bollocks that won’t work but it will play well to a certain voter.