The first quarter of 2008 saw applications from asylum seekers rise by SIXTEEN per cent on the same period last year.
In contrast, applications to the rest of the EU actually FELL by 10%.
Why?
Is nobody in the British government giving out the message across the world that we are no longer encouraging applications for asylum? …the message that the British people don’t want any more asylum seekers?
If not, why not?
Which part of ‘no more asylum seekers’ and ‘no more immigrants’ does the Home Office not understand? How many times do we have to say it?
Apart from the negative and divisive effect they have on our society, in the current economic climate we can’t afford it.
The Home Office Asylum Statistics report shows that the numbers amount to 6595 for the quarter, excluding the applicants’ dependants. Of these, some 69% were claiming for free accommodation & subsistence as well – not just for us to allow them in. So the British taxpayer would be paying their rent, food and living expenses indefinitely while they ‘integrated’ into our society – and we know how successful that has been.
Of these, according to the Home Office, 1,875 applications were granted such support – only 1% down on the same period last year, despite the public outcry against asylum seekers – projecting a total of around 7,500 people receiving financial support from us in 2008 and beyond, for heaven knows how long.
And that’s just those who’ve turned up in England this year, never mind previous years. These are of course the official asylum applications, and don’t include the hordes of illegal immigrants and expanded-EU Eastern Europeans also coming into the country and presenting themselves for benefits and accommodation.
