Figures show 36,273 asylum seekers are living in taxpayer-funded accommodation – despite Labour’s promise to end the use of hotels by 2029.
Shabana Mahmood said illegal immigration was tearing Britain apart but figures show Labour is failing (Image: SmartFrame/Zuma Press)
The anger and dissent raging away in all four corners of Britain continues to remain a mystery to this duplicitous Government. Despite a Budget that sucked the life out of hard work, ambition, and aspiration to reward the idle, Labour carries on regardless.
The morning after the night before delivered more of the same and with it a collective shrug of ministerial shoulders. Why, they scratch their heads, are the people not with us?
Well, one of the many reasons is the number of asylum seekers being housed in hotels: the number has risen by 13% since June.
Official figures show 36,273 people are living in accommodation paid for by fleeced taxpayers – despite this government’s promise to end the use of hotels for asylum seekers by 2029.
The number housed this way has risen by 4,000 in three months. There are now 7,000 more living like this than when Labour was elected last year.
The crisis has been exacerbated by a surge in small boat Channel crossings and subsequent asylum claims.
Home Office data shows a record 110,051 people claimed asylum in the UK in the year ending to September – up 13 per cent on the previous year and 7 per cent more than the previous peak of 103,081 in 2002.
This deceitful government – as confirmed in Wednesday’s Budget – sees nothing wrong in penalising those who work hard to reward those who do not.
Is it really any wonder why those trying to get on and get by in communities large and small, urban and rural, are so peeved?
Residents rally in Crowborough, East Sussex, against Labour’s plans (Image: PA)
If Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood – who in a rare outburst of common sense admitted illegal immigration is “tearing our country apart” – remains puzzled by the growing strength of public outrage perhaps she should visit Crowborough.
This weekend, once again, those living in this peaceful part of East Sussex will abandon their pre-Christmas plans to mount another vocal protest at Labour’s proposals to house up to 600 single, male asylum seekers at an army training base.
The local council has formally opposed the idea and served a planning contravention notice against the Home Office.
But just like in Essex, where asylum seekers continue to be housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping after a High Court injunction was refused, it will make no difference.
This government displays wilful ignorance towards the concerns of ordinary people. Labour hears no evil, sees no evil, and speaks no evil.
Instead it points to a sharp fall in net migration – the difference between the number moving to the UK and those leaving – as a victory.
Provisional figures estimate the figure to be 204,000 in the year ending June, a drop from 649,000 in the year to June 2024, according to the ONS.
But even this is sleight of hand. The fall is because more British nationals could foresee what was happening under this shameless socialist government and threw in the towel, cashed in their chips and left, with the exodus amounting to an alarming brain drain.
Few will probably know that Crowborough, which lies on the edge of Ashdown Forest, boasts two particularly famous sons.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories, was a long-time resident, and if you wander around the heathland habitat you might bump into pot-bellied bear Winnie-the-Pooh.
Super sleuth Holmes would be able to instantly solve the conundrum as to why so many young men continue to arrive at our shores: To them, Britain under Labour remains the land of milk… and hunny.
