Rt Hon Sir John Redwood MP (Wokingham) (Con): I strongly support all that the Home Secretary said in her opening statement: she spoke for the nation in saying we need to control this problem, and she spoke for all those caught up in these tragic events. I hope that all men and women of good will get behind her, and that the Home Office fully supports her in making sure we can speed up processing and return all illegal economic migrants to the safe countries they came from.
Rt Hon Suella Braverman MP KC, Secretary of State for the Home Department: My right hon. Friend speaks a lot of sense, as always, and he is right; the British people have had enough of an out-of-control borders system. It is incumbent upon this Government to address that, and I know for a fact that this Prime MinisterĀ takes the problem extremely seriously, and I know he will leave no stone unturned until it is fixed.
November 1, 2022
I suspect Suella will be pushed out sooner, or later, and probably sooner.
This government does all it can to entice them here and treats them better than legal citizens, so of course they will come in their thousands. You need to start building more hotels (lots more) for their comfort! A thousand uninvited and unidentifiable guests per day equals what …. 2, 3 or maybe 4 hotels full? So get busy, we need you to build a minimum of 3 hotels PER DAY to keep up with the numbers arriving! It is a waste of time expecting this government to reduce immigrations, be it legal or illegal!
November 1, 2022
Have the Government for a couple of years hoped the weather would be so bad that the illegals would be staying in France due to the danger? Apart from paying France to pretend to monitor their shores and stop the armada setting off – what else has been done. Oh of course they made Priti Patel look stupid stopping any action she tried.
November 3, 2022
21 Jul 2021 ā The government will give France Ā£54 million in a bid to try and stem the flow of migrants making the dangerous crossing of the English Channel itv.com
1 Aug 2022 Priti Patel is planning to announce another multimillion-pound deal with France to stop migrants crossing the Channel in what is likely to be one of her last acts as home secretary.The Times
How much has the UK paid in the past three years? Do we have to pay if they haven’t stemmed the flow? In fact Remain supporters on here tell us that France are actively encouraging this flow because of Brexit to teach us a lesson for leaving. What action is proposed to take because France isn’t supporting International treaties? Are we stopping them fishing? Are we stopping their imports? Are we doing the things they’d do to the UK if we set off all and Sundry from our south coast?
We have taken in a man that has today been reported to have raped children in a refuge, he has been bailed – bailed to where? Did the minor have their parents with them? We are taking in all these problems without any thanks, just recriminations.
November 1, 2022
Most agree with the strong intent.
Control is the the power to direct people’s behaviour.
Where is the power?
November 1, 2022
Actions rather than words that is if all the snakes in the grass allow her to so her job.
November 1, 2022
So if, as Braverman says, Sunak will leave no stone unturned I look forward to the announcement that we will be leaving the control of the ECHR and amending the Human Rights Act and Modern Slavery Act to ensure that we can deport economic migrants who have no legitimate claim for asylum as refugees.
The Government also needs to severely restrict the far too generous assistance it gives asylum seekers. They should have basic accommodation in hostels; and no “free” hotels/housing, “free” mobiles or “free” money. And anyone who arrives here with no documentation and who refuses to say where they are from should receive nothing.
The Government has a 75 seat majority so should have no difficulty in doing this.
November 1, 2022
Independent hostels say there are only 400 in the whole of the UK. The numbers are overwhelming. We needed to leave the Nightingale hospitals with the beds and dividers up and operational to put these people in whilst being processed.
November 1, 2022
How do you get MPs like Gale and Hoare to support their own country in this? It is not a 75 seat majority. Then there are the Lords.
November 2, 2022
I think you’ve made my point for me.
If you vote for the Westminster Uni-Party, you’re endorsing it.
November 2, 2022
Gale, just wants the problem passing on up North, on the news last night they said the NW of England were taking 17% more than the SE.
He has his local population to please to keep his seat.
November 2, 2022
+1
Sunak cannot keep to his decision not to attend net stupid conference! Oh for a Donald Trump!
November 1, 2022
Well done Suella Braverman for sticking to her guns.
A quick calculation of the cost of those that illegally entered the UK over the last weekend.
Just hotel costs 1468 x Ā£140 = Ā£205,520 per night
Or Ā£1,438,640 per week
Or Ā£74,809,280 per annum
And that’s just this weekend!!!
Apparently this is Ok with the Opposition in Parliament who offered no solution whatsoever to this *INVASION .
*Dictionary definition – “an occasion when a large number of people or things come to a place in an annoying and unwanted way:”
I would like to know what living conditions these people are being given by the French?
4 star hotels, surely not, probably lucky to have a tent.
The main problem here, is once they set foot on UK soil there is no way of deporting them once the “ambulance chasers” and “human rights” people get involved.
November 1, 2022
Agree – what happened to the 30,000 last year, and the 30,000 before that and the thousands before that ….none have been sent home or returned to France in a dacade or more
November 1, 2022
There is a shortage of goodwill but there is also this: –
“The home secretary, John Reid, today admitted that the beleaguered immigration directorate was “not fit for purpose” – from 23, May 2006 .
Seven office holders and sixteen years later all is at least as bad.
November 1, 2022
And nothing serious done about the gang rapists of underage girls.
November 1, 2022
Sunak does not take the problem ‘extremely seriously’.
He could not care less. More empty words, few believe them.
November 1, 2022
Why doesn’t someone stand up and say that the conditions don’t matter.
If they are truly asylum seekers then anything is better than what they had and these trafficked peoples should not be here anyway
November 1, 2022
Correct, they’ve been living in small tents with no facilities in France for months/years …but our hotels aren’t good enough for them, they’re taking us to court
November 1, 2022
If they have paid Ā£000s to get here and have been told they will be housed and fed in hotels with pocket money, then they will have a feeling of entitlement.
November 2, 2022
And that is our problem why?
November 2, 2022
Because that is what is on offer from our government.
November 2, 2022
Narrow Shoulders:
Criminals responsible for the woes of human trafficking appear to act with impunity. With so many victims there must be a large pyramid pointing directly to each originator causing the crimes. If life in the UK is so wonderful, awarding it free to anyone giving evidence resulting in Mr Big being jailed would prevent such widespread suffering more efficiently. Offer victims a CBE (Catch a British Enemy) for such distinguished conduct.
November 1, 2022
Let us hope that her answer will materialise into some rapid action with a firm solution.
This chaos has gone on for far, far too long.
November 1, 2022
I’m glad to see that Sir John has supported the Home Secretary in this important matter.
November 2, 2022
I am glad too that Sir John has supported Suella in his intervention in parliament. I have written to my own mp to say that all Con MPs should be vociferously supporting the government, the home office and Suella. The U.K. needs to see a strong, stable government in action over the coming months. Unnamed MPs who give negative comments on Suella to the DT today, should be named and face the consequences of their actions. I think the majority of British public are very concerned about illegal immigration and its consequences on the fabric of the U.K. and are glad to hear strong honest words from the Home Secretary.
November 1, 2022
Words, words, words. When are we going to see some action? The British people are sick to death of this. If you can’t sort this out then step aside and let someone else fix it. Just send these people back to France – problem solved.
November 1, 2022
You can’t send them back to France – they’re not French citizens and the French don’t want them either. Identify them and ship them back to their home countries. That will break the business model of the people traffickers.
Ask the French if they want to chip in to the plan as well. Calais don’t want them wandering around there.
November 1, 2022
You can turn them back mid channel and alert the French that their day trippers are lost at sea
November 2, 2022
The trade could be stopped overnight if the French accepted the return of these people. They don’t so what does that say about the French. It’s just a money making scheme for them.
November 2, 2022
Just set up a camp in an African country and ship them all there.
They have made themselves stateless so should not mind where they end up.
That, more than sending a few to Rwanda, will shatter the business model.
November 1, 2022
We’re not going to get anywhere until the power at be, realise that they must repeal our membership of the council of europe and its ECHRs
November 1, 2022
So in what way has your brexit helped?
Not in the least, has it?
in fact it has made dealing with the problem harder, because it has damaged co-operation between the UK and countries over the Channel, never mind making the UK unable to take advantage of the Dublin Arrangements.
You get what you vote for.
November 1, 2022
Brexit is fine NLH …its our stupid government
November 1, 2022
France did nothing about Sangatte until *after* the 2016 Referendum. Macron has discovered that his policy of non-cooperation plays very nicely with the electorate in xenophobic France, so he’ll do nothing about the dinghies except speed them on their way. Under international law that is tantamount to an act of war, and a more resolute government than this one would respond with an obvious counter-measure.
The Dublin Agreement (a formal EU Treaty) has been multiply, egregiously breached since 2015 by Germany and several other EU nation states – with impunity.
November 1, 2022
“Under international law that is tantamount to an act of war, and a more resolute government than this one would respond with an obvious counter-measure.”
When the Russians did this to the Poles via Belarus we went and helped them repel the invasion of uninvited, unidentified, illegal immigrants. No-one in the Houses of Parliament said they objected.
November 2, 2022
The ārefugee campā in Sangatte has been a problem since it was opened in 1999. Neither Chirac, Sarkozy nor Hollande did anything much about it. To claim that Macronās (first elected in May 2017) non cooperation policy is much worse than his predecessorsā is rather boeotian. If anything Brexit made things worse not so much because of the new French president but because of the rupture of previous discussion channels between France and the UK.
November 2, 2022
This situation has nothing to do with Brexit, it is a result of Theresa May’s ill thought out Modern Slavery Act. No other country accepts asylum seekers from Albania which is the main reason why they head for the UK. SB needs to repeal this act and do it quickly.
November 2, 2022
So many politicians deliberately sabotaging the UK with this and the Migration Pact, and still it continues! We need to have a referendum before such major changes to our country can take place. It is OUR country, and not solely the property of politicians.
November 2, 2022
One can’t help but think of her angry and morally superior denunciation of the Rwanda project.
November 1, 2022
The Home Office
1 Feb 2013 FIA response:
Home Office staff by gender
Female 14,448
Male 13,098
Grand Total 27,546
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-staff-employed-as-of-1-january-2013
HQ Communications Directorate Headcount (HC) = 135.
What do these communication staff have to say about how many people per day are dealt with by each worker assigned that task? How many of the 27,546 are assigned to Immigration? How does this compare to 1992, 2002,2012? Have extra staff been recruited? What is their target to be processed each week? How do they process people, in person, via computer?
November 1, 2022
Thank you, you speak for all men and women of good will who read your diary I think. It remains to be seen though whether this PM will indeed ‘leave no stone unturned’. He hasn’t actually said that himself publicly.
November 1, 2022
Well done JR!
Bravo!!
November 1, 2022
Indeed well said.
Let us hope Suella is is actually given the tools to deliver this time. The Tories have been in power for since May 2010 (over twelve years albeit under the socialist leadership) of Cameron/Osborne, May/Hammond, Boris/Sunak.
I read that:- Everyone in Briton will need to pay more in tax in the coming years to fix a hole in public finances (that the Tories have created), a source in the Treasury said on Monday, following a meeting between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and finance minister Jeremy Hunt.
The problem is that higher tax rates (from the currently absurdly high rates) will not raise any more tax it will just diminish the tax base. Plus why should we continue to pay ever more taxes to government when public services are so dire, declining and there is such endless waste. Cut out the waste instead RIshi. HS2, the coft loans for pointless degrees, NET zero, the diversity/net zero officers, the woke lunacy everywhere, the economic illegal migrants , the subsidies for “renewables” the vast over regulation of everything, the net harm vaccinations.
I see that in Southampton they even gave some children three times the correct dose (the adult one). But why were they giving children these vaccines at all? Given what we know about the vaccine statistics (rather ineffective and often dangerous) plus children are at almost zero risk and do not need them anyway.
November 1, 2022
Suella has said what has long been awaited. It remains to be seen whether Rishi backs her and takes the action necessary to counterbalance woke thinking in the civil service and much of our media, residual outdated law or obligation, and a voracious legal profession being fed by legal aid which translates to taxpayers hard earned money.
How about setting up a detention camp in West Falkland for all making illegal claims to assylum. Two years of road building on the islands on a diet of mutton and potatoes might discourage trips across the Channel. Those who have subsequently indulged in serious criminal activity could attend a separate prison camp for at least five years. Recruit prison officers on attractive rates of pay from ex recent members of our military.
Of necessity you will need to speed up decision making in the Home Office as to who is a true refugee and who in an economic migrant. The discarding of true identity could be considered indicative of the latter.
November 1, 2022
Invasion. No other way to describe it. Oh how the leftards must hate her. Now we can see why the anti British bbc is doi g a hatchet job on her.
Jenrick, he’s a joke.
November 1, 2022
Robert Jenrick MP should lose his ministerial post for undermining the Home Secretary
November 1, 2022
Isn’t it an admission of total failure that the Home Secretary of the party that has been in power for over twelve years is saying that we have an out-of-control borders system?
As for speeding up processing, quite agree that is necessary. One way of doing this would be to do what has been suggested and open processing facilities in France.
We were, of course, able to return “illegal” economic migrants to safe countries under the Dublin agreement. Sadly, like so many other good things, this lapsed when we committed the national act of self-harm of leaving the EU. Isn’t it odd that so many of the things we claimed could happen when we left the EU were in fact much easier when we were still members?
November 2, 2022
The Dublin Agreement collapsed before we left. Frau Merkel finally killed it off when she broke international, EU, and German law to open the borders to all comers.
November 1, 2022
Iām surprised that you SirJ havenāt lost the tory whip for referring to the poor young men as āillegal economic migrantsā
November 1, 2022
Using the word invasion is dangerous and divisive.
But using 14 months for a migration case is a disgrace, when it takes 7 months in. Germany and 5 months in Denmark our allies and friends
November 1, 2022
How many people per day are processed in Germany and Denmark if you have all the figures available? How many immigration staff are there per day processing. How does this compare to the UK? How much do they pay to do this compared to the UK?
November 1, 2022
And what percentage of applicants are successful? There is a huge disparity there.
November 2, 2022
a-tracy
I do not have the Danish figures, but the Germans are receiving far more emigrants than we are
November 2, 2022
How do you know Bill? The Germans have spent years telling people they need and like more immigration remember all the posters at the football conveniently written in English.
Plus, Germany is a far bigger Country than England, where most of the immigrants want to come. This is not as big a problem for Scotland because their population is dropping, and there is much more land and cheaper land to build on.
357,588 kmĀ² Germany – 130,279 kmĀ² England.
The population density in Germany is 240 per Km2
England is the most densely populated at 434 people per square kilometer.
November 2, 2022
It’s about time a spade was called a spade.
It IS an invasion. And the Government has done nothing to stop it.
November 2, 2022
Donna
The figures for France and Germany is much more than 100.000 so stop use silly words like invasion, we are just badly prepared and informed
November 3, 2022
Bill, the UK accepts 76% of claims the EU 34%, what is Germany’s granted figure compared to ours not just applications? Do you know or are you just repeating what you are told to say?
November 1, 2022
I note that the media seem obsessed with the ‘plight’ of the illegal invaders, and Lucy Moreton, ex-workforce transformation disciple for the nursing profession in Surrey, and now the ISU union’s PR rep for borders and customs staff, has been stirring it up: “The members are reporting real concerns, not only that there could be a copycat attack [more likely now, as she’s just deliberately raised it], or that may have been part of a broader programme [never seriously entertained] – although that appears unlikely [Aaah, note the clever use of apophasis – making a groundless assertion then immediately, once it’s planted in the listener’s mind, denying having made it] – but certainly it could be copied.” [Could be, yes, as she has just put the idea into the minds of the manipulative].
“There have been a lot of drones flying over the site in the last 24 hours [she is so far the only source of this allegation, otherwise unreported in the media], there’s a lot of tensions on the site – the migrants are very keen to be moved on to get their freedom back….weapons are always being found”
Aaaah, ‘get their freedom back’ – with weapons, I hope and trust.
The leftwing sympathy for the illegal invasion and the attack on the nation continues.
November 1, 2022
We are going to have to look for specialists from abroad to come and take over some of the processing. Australia seemed to have dealt with this problem we should pay them to come and speed things up over here, use their IT systems perhaps because ours are doing for years on blimin spreadsheets! I read that it takes one whole YEAR before someone is effectively trained to do this immigration checking job by the British! Itās no wonder the public despair our civil service working now mainly from home canāt do this job, that is clear and if it takes a year to train up any new people the situation is becoming untenable.
November 1, 2022
The MSM wolf pack baying for the blood of Suella Braverman has been distinctly unedifying. Thank you for supporting her JR. SKY and the BBC have been particularly persistent and unpleasant in this regard. She must not be allowed to fail. Her crime of course is not not Manston or accommodation, but being right of centre
November 1, 2022
Well done John. Parliament must be made to realise most of us have had enough.
November 1, 2022
Repatriate all economic migrants and save nearly Ā£1 billion a year in hotel costs. When these āasylum seekerā are in the same hotels as paying British guests, the Penny will drop and there will be real anger. Not a good idea to cause 66 million people to become angry.
November 1, 2022
None of the countries from which these people came will accept them back. They are here, and they are our problem. As ever you have absolutely no solution. All you have is whipping up hatred for some of the most unfortunate people on the planet
November 1, 2022
I’m not sure their home countries won’t have them back. Make it quite clear that if they want diplomatic relations with the UK they must accept their own citizens to be returned. If an unwilling country has a coast, place the migrants into a boat with an automatic pilot and aim it at a convenient beach.
November 2, 2022
Mate, no country cares about having diplomatic relations with the UK. After Brexit, we’re a small fish in a big sea
November 2, 2022
Complete nonsense gazza.
November 2, 2022
Mr Sunak touched on this during the leadership contest when he said he would withold foreign aid from countries which refused to take back illegal immigrants.
November 1, 2022
Blah blah blah Gary donāt you have all the solutions, let everyone in, give them permission to stay and remove all their benefits, housing, hotels, and let them stand on their own two feet and if they donāt have the skills watch them come and rob you Gary.
November 2, 2022
Stop foreign aid to any country that doesn’t accept their people back. It’s very simple but our government is weak and would rather listen to the MSM who do not represent the majority of British people.
November 2, 2022
D. Telegraphās report of 28/10 stated “UK will give Albania millions to spruce up state & stop migrants wanting to leaveā Does this come from the Foreign Aid budget, not sure. Detailed were payments of Ā£ 9m cash being used for development. Ā£ 4m last month by H O to modernise Albaniaās criminal laboratory to boost its forensic capability and Ā£ 2m for a police station in Tirana airport. Multi millions Ā£ for projects to combat organised crime groups plus the export credit agency likely to provide tens of millions to underwrite bids in connection with building a new dam ( which hopefully in the future perhaps secure contracts for future UK businesses – we shall see no doubt )
November 2, 2022
So what is your solution? We have no housing, hotels now full, so do you propose building 3 new hotels PER DAY to house these uninvited ‘guests’, and expect taxpayers to foot the bill? C’mon, WHAT is your solution?
November 1, 2022
Yeah, yeah. Blah, blah. Donāt you ever get tired of the charade. You will do NOTHING, as always.
Itās like Groundhog Day. Every day, wake up, trot out the same meaningless nonsense. Rinse and repeat. How many more landed today?
I wonder how many hotel rooms there are in the country. Will we run out of hotel rooms? Maybe anyone with a spare room will be forced to provide accommodation.
Itās beyond farce. Why will nobody say āWe canāt afford this! Weāve got a fifty thousand, million pound deficit – we havenāt got the money.
Mind you, you could put taxes up even higher than the current 70 year high you have already achieved. Why not, eh? Itās the only thing you are capable of.
Good to know fit, healthy young men get medical and dental treatment at my expense while I, having paid taxes and NI for 48 years, canāt get to see a doctor.
November 2, 2022
Serco now advertising on their website for landlords to rent their properties to immigrants. They will pay 5 yrs rent up front and return the properties to good order when or if they leave . We already have a lack of rental properties, this will exacerbate the situation. The indigenous population will have nowhere to rent shortly!!
November 1, 2022
Oh for the days of flying the de Havilland Chipmunk out of RAF Manston. A delightful small aircraft, and a small friendly RAF base. This was less than 50 years ago. Look now. A nightmare. A microcosm in adverse change for the UK. Let’s turf these miscreants out and get our former lives back!
November 1, 2022
You reminded about the Chipmunks. I recall it was also a base for bulbous nosed Argosy freighters that could airlift 3 cars across the Channel, a small airline, the Westland search and rescue helicopter (which paid a visit to my school, landing on the rugby pitch), and a squadron of Vulcans, including the one that was the flying testbed for Concorde engines. There were a few afternoons when there was filming for the Battle of Britain film in the skies overhead, and many of the aircraft were temporarily stationed there.
November 1, 2022
Very well said Sir John
Thanks for supporting Suella.
When all the usual suspects are hounding her.
November 1, 2022
Some criticized the Home Secretaryās use of āinvasionā.
āInvadeā means: Enter (a place, situation, or sphere of activity) in large numbers, especially with intrusive effect.
If someone put their hands in your coat, that may be seen as an invasion of your privacy.
News reported that one desperate person arriving had entered a womanās bedroom intent on stealing something there to obtain money. The notion of our home being entered by an unwelcome stranger is a risk.
The UK is our home.
November 1, 2022
+1
November 1, 2022
– We must beware the right wing backlash (which never materialises)
– We must avoid all insensitive language
– We must call young men ‘children’
– We must stretch ourselves at all costs to house illegal immigrants in decent accommodation
– We must divert RNLI cover away from rescuing the people who pay for it to be used as a taxi service
– We must NEVER discuss the crime committed by young men who enter the country by this method
OK. Got it. Loud and clear. The migrants matter more than The People.
The Tory Party faces utter obliteration at the next general election. Even historically safe seats are going to be lost. People cannot be asked to vote for an organisation which has chosen the wrong side to be on and that they now hate.
For God’s sakes. Just disband.
November 1, 2022
I ditched my RNLI subs last year. I figured that my family were now far more likely to be hurt by an illegal driver, illegal drugs or by direct criminality brought in via the RNLI than they were to be at risk of the sea.
November 1, 2022
For years the RNLI have been diverting your donations to woke causes abroad. They are the most popular charity in the country and only now are people waking up to their changed character.
November 1, 2022
NLA
I understand exactly how you feel. But seriously if we had a General Election, who do we vote for – how do make the Tory party suffer and feel our frustration. The thought of a Labour govt fills me with dread! I am not sure there will be a reform candidate in my area – if there is I will certainly vote for them as much as I like Fiona Bruce MP
November 2, 2022
Reform now have 550 candidates ready to go. They are recruiting hard and will soon have the required number of candidates. They intend to stand in EVERY constituency and I hope they give all the main parties a bloody nose.
November 2, 2022
Shirley, will Reform be putting up a biog for every prospective MP, with links to their social media, a cv if you like, will we be offered something more than we have to take from the others with a coloured rosette? Are we going to learn what their top five problems are to resolve and how they are equipt to deal with it?
The truth is that Stoke is finally getting attention after decades of floundering, with Conservative MPs and a proactive enterprise zone. The wrong side of Stoke was developed, leaving the old town with the railway station, and hospital cut off/disconnected to the new shopping centre that is now on its knees and left stale I am hearing noises from the locals that they are hopeful for improvements.
November 2, 2022
Well said.
The treacherous CON Party has betrayed the people it’s time to consign it to the dustbin of history.
November 2, 2022
There certainly is one particular pusher of hard right non-thought through policies I would love seeing consigned to the dustbin of history.
November 2, 2022
Gosh you old teaser heffy.
Do tell.
November 1, 2022
Why does the government believe that anyone leaving a safe country is anything but an economic migrant? If so, what would be the reason? Remove all the pull factors. This Whitehall farce needs to end. The country is sick of it and sick of the Tories’ ineptitude. Incarcerate these invaders until they agree to return to their own countries at their own expense. If necessary, repeal all laws that are used to assist foreigners are our expense.
November 1, 2022
We have seen how quickly action can be taken when it is wanted.
-Benn Act. Treaties signed before ratification and honoured before and after.
-Covid lockdowns. Censorship of credible professionals.
Revoke the ECHR supremacy and pass simple 1 lines bills to deport immediately back to EU then onwards to a refugee camp close to the country of origin or elsewhere. If this meets with EU refusals , then reciprocate and start making some tough calls.
November 2, 2022
Your Gov. has been in power for over a decade and has done nothing to prevent illegals or remove them. More bluster will achieve exactly the same result.
The intercepted dinghies should be roped to our ships and towed back to France, whether Macron likes it or not.
It’s also blindingly obvious the French are doing nothing to stop the immigrants setting off. Indeed in view of the numbers now arriving, they must be facilitating the launches.
November 2, 2022
We are told that 90% of the people crossing the Channel are male, 75% 18-39 years old. How are they processed? What is the entire procedure? Do we ascertain if they have the skills required to work in the UK and then process them first? For those with no essential skills do we check what vocational skills they bring with them?
Aren’t we more bothered that we keep people for years at our expense without requiring anything at all from them, whether they are British or not? No-one capable of work should get money from the State for nothing expected in return. If these lawyers are capable of fining the UK government then the immigrant applicants can pay for their own accommodation out of that fine! It is infuriating. The UN has been condemning the French for leaving people to squat and overcrowd in offices with few toilette facilities, they get away with it but our lawyers can sue us, taxpayers, for more, more, more all the time CHANGE the rules that we bind ourselves to those France applies.
November 3, 2022
The BBC have made an attempt to answer some of these questions about processing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63477371
It seems the Home Office has issues.
Eight years ago, nine out of 10 asylum claims were being processed within six months. But by late 2018 – four years ago – just a quarter of claims were receiving their initial decision within that target.
In January 2019, the department scrapped the six-month “customer service standard”, hoping it would ease pressure on stressed staff, allowing them time to take better decisions on complicated cases.
By June of last year, just 6% of all claims were being dealt with within a six-month window – and MPs learned last week that just 4% of people who arrived in small boats in 2021 have had a decision.
Sajid Javid was Home Secretary when the decision to change the rules occurred. He needs to be asked why?
In office 30 April 2018 ā 24 July 2019
Prime Minister: Theresa May
Were the home office immigration staff put on full furlough with no work for months in 2020? How many were supposed to be working? Were they working from home? Has this working from home resulted in this dropping off a cliff and problems with computer systems, just how secure are these systems, and if it is that change that caused the problem bring them back into their office.
November 3, 2022
50 years ago, when the UK took in 30,000 Ugandan Asian refugees, where did we house them? Did they come in just a year or two?
Why are we paying hotels Ā£150 per night for rooms they usually rent out at Ā£70? Indeed if it is a full seven-day/night 3-month contract, the same should be less. Also, if the hotel usually provides breakfast at that rate and cleans the room with their staff, is it still required to do that, or do these refugees have to clean their own rooms?
All these do-gooders we see on our tv, do any of them volunteer to teach the children at these hotels near them? Do they volunteer to teach the adults English? What do they actually do other than vocalise their goodness? Is there somewhere they can sign up to put their time where their mouths are? If not, set it up immediately, if their is no study room in the hotel, they could take the teenagers to a nearby library and teach in their, or the many empty public sector office blocks dotted around.