People like Amir living in accommodation that provides meals are given just £8.86 a week to live on. Meanwhile, members of the House of Lords can claim £361 a day in expenses. But we won’t get into that…
False: People like Amir living in accommodation that provides meals are given just £8.86 a week to live on. Meanwhile, members of the House of Lords can claim £361 a day in expenses. But we won’t get into that…
As a result of the scheme, a whopping four people seeking asylum moved to Rwanda – all voluntarily. At the bargain price of approximately £175million per person, that’s a crackin’ use of taxpayer money!
It actually costs 11x more. The Government gives people seeking asylum £34.86 a week for food, or £4.98 a day. A festive roast at a UK carvery chain costs £57.99. Whichever way you look at it, that’s completely nuts
There’s no way to sugarcoat it — the UK is the only country in Europe that has no time limit on detention. That means Layla could be held until next December, or the December after that, or the December after that…
True! Alongside the Peruvian bear, with his marmalade sandwiches and shiny new passport, it’s completely legal for people seeking asylum to enter the UK. In fact, it’s a human right – written into law at the 1951 Refugee Convention. They don’t even have to get permission.
False! In order to seek asylum in the UK, people have to physically be here. So while your uncle yells ‘stop the boats’, and the media has an endless argy-bargy about channel crossings, the UK Government literally requires asylum seekers to travel to the UK. Huh? What? And WTF are all very reasonable reactions
True! There are plenty of safe routes into the UK for reindeers, including by plane, boat or pulling a sleigh. Refugees, however, have almost no safe or legal routes. But they have to be on UK soil to claim asylum. But there’s no legal way to get here. But, but, but… Yeah. It doesn’t make a lick of sense.
That’s right, 180 million Great British pounds. The enormous profits belong to Clearsprings Ready Homes, whose founder Graham King just made the Sunday Times 2024 rich list. Hard to swallow, right?
True! There were 75,658 asylum applications from June 2023-2024. A 2017 petition to get advent calendars to start on November 1st got over 100,000 signatures. The response from Parliament: “The UK Government are not responsible for Advent Calendars.”
This is the reality for so many people seeking asylum. Countless Decembers of uncertainty, insecurity and media blah blah blah. All while activist organisation Lift The Ban estimates that allowing people seeking asylum to work could benefit the UK economy by £333 million each year
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