[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

You keep saying they’re “better off” and getting everything for free, but the facts don’t back that up. Most asylum seekers are banned from working legally, living in overcrowded hotels or hostels with mould and bedbugs, and surviving on about £7 a day if they’re lucky. That’s not some lavish setup—it’s deliberately grim to deter people from coming here.

And let’s be honest: if you or I were stuck in that situation, we’d be doing whatever we could to survive too. Blaming people who’ve got nothing and no way to earn is a lot easier than admitting the system is broken on purpose.

7.00 a day is more than alot of people have, for instance families who use food banks, they are fed, have a roof over their head, have heating, have free dental and medical, and free travel, personally I think they should be allowed to work while they are waiting for their claims to be assessed, but they should be working legally and paying any relevant taxes like everyone else, as it stands due to the governments inertia they are stuck in a processing backlog, and are working illegally so you have to ask yourself is the government happy with this as they are doing their rich mates a favour by giving them cheap labour, just like they are doing their rich mates a favour by filling their hotels which would otherwise be partially empty....try thinking outside the box for a change and not be as accepting of what the government is trying to force us to accept as normal...you seem very hung up on migrants, you have no interest it seems in disabled citizens of the UK being sent into poverty