Amnesty International and Refugee Action have complained about the “forced” poverty of failed asylum seekers when the British government stops paying them benefits after 21 days. They say that the failed asylum seekers are reduced to getting scraps of food from bins and can’t go home because they don’t feel safe. They want the British government to do something about it.
Bloody lefty liberals strike again. They are failed asylum seekers because it is safe for them to go home. They are here because they don’t want to go back home, not because it’s not safe for them to do so. When their asylum claim is rejected they have to go home. If they choose not to, why should the taxpayer pay them benefits? What, in fact, would be the point of an asylum scheme at all if you’re still going to support the buggers when they’ve been told to go?
And while we’re on the subject… why doesn’t “asylum” start at the first friendly country? It seems to me that most “asylum seekers” have traelled half the world to get here.