If they're not here legally they'll be deported. Asylum seekers aren't entitled to welfare in the same way UK nationals or those with settled status are.
That simply isn’t the reality. Generally speaking, if you make it to the UK mainland, legally or illegally, you will remain.
In practice, the system is so broken, around 70-80% of people asylum applicants are granted. In the 2000s, this was around 5%. At this point, the 5 year timer for indefinite leave to remain begins where you can remain, work and have access to benefits.
The governments own figures shown that the monthly benefits bill from households with one foreign national has doubled from 2022 (£461m) to 2025 (£941m). With gross migration being 1 million people in 2022, 2023 and 2024… this figure will only increase from 2027. That is clearly not sustainable.
The raising costs are catching up to the state.
So.. does that mean that the title thread should read Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak lost control of the borders?
I’d go back as far as Blair as well. Keir Starmer’s government is a continuation of a failed status quo, but he’s blundered into scrapping the Rwanda plan without a credible alternative. Just as the EU countries, namely Germany, are moving forwards with third country processing of refugees.
Border control is not a left versus right issue. Denmark’s SDP government has some of the EUs most robust immigration, asylum and integration policies.
If the governments from 2021-2025 did what they promised on immigration, Reform wouldn’t be polling at 30+ per cent.
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