Oh fucking great, so in reality the numbers planning to relocate here will in reality be more than double what we are currently experiencing?
Thats the end of our economy then, the end of the NHS, and state pensions, and the welfare state bankrupt.
How else are we to house more than double the current numbers? And who pays for it all???
And what "better accomodation" are you referring to? Where are the women and children being housed???
If its the rental market and/or council houses, then where do our own people go???
If rents go up or demand increases because of all the imigrant women and children being housed, what does that mean for our own young people and families???
The numbers won't go up as when the first person over makes their asylum application they make it for all family members so the asylum figures are for the total number of applicants including family not currently in the county. So the latest years figures are 85,112 applications covering 109,343 asylum seekers.
If the economy, NHS, pensions and welfare state are all going to collapse as a result of asylum seekers then that suggests to me we've got much bigger problems than asylum seekers. Thats what, a 0.1% or 0.2% change in the population. If thats going to lead to the entire country collapsing there's something else wrong and asylum seekers are, it would seem successfully, being used as a distraction. Maybe we should instead be looking at why those things are on the verge of collapse.
I think there are people who like to present the situation as 'they are all coming here' which is very much not the case. We're not even close to being the top country in Europe, we're 17th per head of population.
Hotels are considered contingency accommodation, basically the last resort, as the cost is seven times higher than other types of accommodation. The UK has a far higher reliance on hotels and private accommodation than other European countries. The percentage of people housed in asylum centres, places like repurposed army barracks, has dropped. This is in part due to an increase in dispersal accommodation due to the huge percentage of applications taking over a year to process.
The idea of dispersal accommodation is that asylum seekers are spread around the country to improve integration and the process is supposed to involve an assessment of accommodation availability so you're not sending people where the accommodation is in short supply but of course we have a housing crisis so you could argue no areas of the country have available accommodation.
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