Taxpayers face £5m a month bill to house Afghans refused asylum

Another Tory failure!

When can UK taxpayers sue Tory ministers for incompetence?

>On Monday, a Home Office spokesman said: “These figures are purely speculative and based on historical data, which may not accurately reflect future costs.

Move along folks, it’s the Telegraph digging up Tory Government figures and presenting them as a Labour issue again.

Three in four appeal decision
Between 2004 and 2021, three in four of all asylum seekers who were rejected appealed the decision. If three in four of the 2,666 people who were rejected last year appealed and waited one year for the outcome, the taxpayer would face costs of £4.7m – based on National Audit Office estimates of the costs

We live in a clown world

As long as the profits are privatised they will allow things to stay the same. Nobody changes a system that they are making billions in profit from.

This is how you know the people have no true power with a vote, there is no one to vote for that will structurally be able to change the system away from privatising profits and as socialising losses.

Change does not start until all foreign military bases are removed and we have our own payment systems.

The Telegraph? A story about asylum seekers?

This is definitely not what I would expect from them. On a tuesday. It’s usually Monday, Wednesday, Twice on thursdays, Friday get’s a minor story and then all weekend there’s major 5 page spreads on immigration and how much it costs.

Sundays of course they have their weekly “Lunch with Nigel Farage” giveaway. Of course he never actually turns up to the lunch, instead he uses Skype to call the winner and tell them he’s too scared he will get stabbed to meet face to face. With Skype gone this of course will make things much harder, but Farage has promised he will fearmonger at least 30% more to make up for it.

Okay, now work out much tax payer money ends up in the pockets of the uber wealthy.

British money for British citizens… Most of the time at least

Wether the exact figures are true, it is this profound sense of unfairness which is radicalising everyone. Even me and I’m a brown British person.

You do everything you’re told to do, study, work, hard, get a job and everything still feels so still. I have been renting for a decade and have paid around £100,000 in rent and yet I am nowhere near close to buying a home…and someone can just pop up and end up in a paid for hotel without any input.

It’s just maddening.

In my profession it’s taken years of work to raise funds to build a £1.5m cancer screening centre.

Another Telegraph article on asylum seekers, again another Tory failure being dressed as a Labour one.

This sub is slowly goosesteeping it’s way to be a right-wing echo chamber, same posters posting same sort of articles from same papers, with a certain leaning.

Media sparking outrage over what is on a country scale not a large expenditure. Should this happen? No. But recognize we have much bigger issues and waste elsewhere and this is the wealthy redirecting our issues away from them.

We need to fight wealth inequality, and fight for better rights and living conditions for the average UK citizen. If we magically solved this issue tomorrow, your life would not get better.

Look at how the Thames Water CEO got millions in dividends, despite being on the brink of bankruptcy and polluting our water (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/08/thames-water-chairman-accused-of-conflict-of-interest-over-37m-share-dividend-payment). Further have paid out £7b since being privatized in 1989, meanwhile your water bills have gone up and up.

We are now the 9th most economically unequal OECD nation
https://equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic-inequality-uk/, grown 50% in the last 8 years.

If you are the sort to just blame migrants for this, you are being fooled by wealthy politicians and their corporate lobbies taking advantage of the real struggle and pain you have experienced trying their hardest to make sure that we do not demand they pay their fair share to society, or otherwise ask for meaningful change will stop them getting richer and you getting poorer.

We can do better guys

A lot of leftists in the comments saying we invaded Afghanistan and deserve this. Too all the leftists reading this ur supposed to make mass immigration sound like a good thing, not a negative or this revenge attitude.

This will probably get some hate but why not get them doing some unpaid work, like fixing the roads, litter picking, field work, anything. if they object instant deportation. Obviously if someone in physical unable to work that’s a different case

This rag floating rage bait headlines as usual. They even say in the “article” it’ll cost £56m. That’s £1.07m a week so 80% less than the title says.

They spent £55m on lawyers for the covid inquiry.

There should be a correct way to get asylum, even if it means complete reform of the system in place.

Some sort of points system, a graduate system permit of sorts maybe. Immigration done right is a great asset. When it’s abused and those get ‘lost’ in the system or have unlimited appeals, all the vast expense to the tax payer it’s wrong.

All of those who arrive via anything else outside of exemplary circumstances should be deported.

Well done useless government on your continuous drive to fucking ruin everything 🙄 👍

I don’t understand why they have to be here in the country to request asylum. They can do it at the British embassy anywhere in the world and wait to find out. If they enter illegally, then they lose the right to apply. Why isn’t the rule as simple as that?

For those already in, they should be going to the police to find out if their application was successful and if not, escorted out of the country where they can appeal. But coming here and getting a paycheck for years, should just stop.

Here is the amusing part about the UK.

I have a friend who decided to go do teaching in Guernsey. He is a fully qualified teacher and got all the Visas etc and a position at a local school in Guernsey. Great so he didn’t think too much of it flew over and had an AirBNB booked for a few weeks till he could sort out some “Proper Accommodation” please note the inverted commas I will come back to this.

So he starts teaching and the Landlady was like you can’t shower at 5am and needs to be quiet by this hour etc etc. so he was like okay this AirBNB is a bit too much I’m a grown man WTF. Booked another one on Short notice paying some ridiculous amount of money because what the school didn’t tell him there is a housing and accomodation shortage on the island. So if you want accommodation (That’s anywhere decent you’re gonna pay HUGE amounts) So he gets a short term stay in another AirBNB. Can’t find affordable more permanent long term accommodation. So he ends up in a tent! A teacher in a Tent. Anyways the kids at the school are obviously obnoxious little shits as most British kids are, so he lasted a few weeks.

But if you go to England as a Boat person or claim asylum then you get put up in a plush posh hotel for free.

But if you are a Teacher… Tent for you! And all out of your own pocket!

How much do we pay a month to keep the scrotes in the houses for parliament?

We are taking money of our pensioners and giving it to afghans. That should be enough for Starmer to resign.

And how much more each year are we paying Parliament, their ever-growing departments and all the private enterprises they employ, to keep seeing no results for these age old problems? We still feed all the sacked and ex politicians free parliamentary passes to fine dining, pensions, access to lobbying etc- for the rest of their unproductive lives. At least immigrants will end up contributing to the country and not raiding the vast amounts of extras freely afforded to all those failed political richest.