Friday - April 22, 2011

give us your poor and huddled masses, scroungers and criminals. whatever.

In another post unrelated to this one, LyndonB had this to say.

Good on the Aussies I say. Take out the trash. Maybe the UK government could take a leaf out of their book and start shipping back a few million assorted scumbags from Nigeria, Iran, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Algeria etc. etc. etc.ad nauseum.

That had to do with the Aussies deporting a criminal to England, thought to be a threat to their citizens.
England does the reverse.

Send us your twisted, your really poor and destitute, your criminals, your depressed in need of our NHS, send the dregs of your society to these friendly shores.
England only exists for you.

Here’s what I mean. Take a look.

Family of 12 asylum seekers land in UK - and are handed a £6,000-a-month home paid for by you

By SAM GREENHILL

A family of 12 asylum-seekers is being put up in a vast house costing taxpayers nearly £1,500 a week, it has emerged.
The Ethiopian couple and their ten children are receiving a staggering £1,460 a week in housing benefit alone.
The jobless couple will also be eligible for other handouts such as unemployment and child benefits, which could potentially add up to an additional £1,300 a week.

Council officials, who refused to give further details of the case, found the family a mini mansion after they arrived in London from Africa in the past few weeks. It was not revealed whether the family is suspected of entering the UK illegally before claiming asylum.
The couple receive a weekly sum of £1,462.90, according to the council’s housing benefits claims department, meaning that the family will cost taxpayers £76,000 in housing benefit alone if allowed to stay in the property for 12 months.

The couple would realistically have to be among the nation’s top earners on wages of £230,000 before tax to afford to spend the same amount of money on rent or a mortgage.

First, the husband presented himself at a housing office in Tower Hamlets, East London, stating he was a refugee and homeless.

Then, days after he was helped, he turned up again with the 11 other members of his family and demanded they all be housed together. It is yet another example of benefits claimants being put up in huge homes at the expense of taxpayers who could never afford such a property themselves.
The bill for housing benefit has risen from £14billion ten years ago to £21billion – more than the country spends on policing and universities combined.

Last night Tower Hamlets’ opposition leader, Conservative councillor Peter Golds, said of the latest case: ‘It is utterly, utterly ridiculous. Why do they need to be housed in one of the most expensive areas of Britain, at great cost to ordinary families who cannot afford the same for themselves?

‘Paying a yearly rate of £76,000 for one family shows the ludicrous amount of public money being paid to put people into expensive housing.’
Benefits payouts in Tower Hamlets alone have cost the taxpayer a mammoth £223million in just one year.
Figures show the council – the poorest in the nation – is spending a third of a million pounds a year on housing just ten families, including the Ethiopian couple and their children.

a bit more here

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