Record 111,000 Claims From Asylum Seekers in Labour’s First Year
Applications for asylum were up 14% on the previous 12 months after a surge in migrants reaching Britain in small boats, official figures show. The Times has more.
A record 111,000 people claimed asylum in the UK during Sir Keir Starmer’s first year in office after a surge in small boat crossings.
Applications for refugee status rose by 14% to 111,084 in the year to June – nearly double the figure in 2021, and 8% more than the previous peak in 2022.
There was also an 8% rise in the number of asylum seekers placed in migrant hotels, a practice that is in jeopardy after a High Court ruling this week. The number rose from 29,585 to 32,059. A similar rise was seen in other types of accommodation being used to house migrants, up 6% from 67,057 to 70,807.
Some hotels have become a hotspot for demonstrations by protesters and counter-protesters, culminating in Epping Forest district council being granted a temporary injunction on Tuesday to allow it to remove migrants from a hotel in the area.
The new figures will pile further pressure on Starmer. Ministers are trying to find alternative accommodation for the migrants and and preparing for dozens of other councils to mount similar legal challenges.
The number of people in receipt of asylum support was up 5% year-on-year, quarterly statistics published by the Home Office showed. The northwest and northeast of England are likely to have felt the greatest impact from housing asylum seekers, in proportion to the number of residents. They are housing 2,739 and 2,643 people per million residents, respectively.
Small boat arrivals have continued to rise significantly. There were 49,341 migrants recorded as arriving “irregularly” on dinghies from France in the year to June – a rise of 27%.
However, children were increasingly less likely to be among those arriving. The proportion had been fairly stable at about 16% but in the first six months of this year it fell to 10%. The Home Office said this “may partly relate to changes in nationalities”.
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Mostly, they are not claims from asylum seekers – they are claims from economic migrants who have been advised by the open-borders NGOs to claim asylum.
They are illegal migrants.
Illegal. They should be sent back immediately to a country of our choosing.
Well, officially, and the word illegal is only a word of the official world, they are not illegal, they are of undetermined origin, because they have destroyed all their documentation. As Britain doesn’t know (officially) where they came from, this makes Britain unable to deport them… officially, at least.
Stop being sensible, they have jettisioned their documents because they know England is a pathetic soft touch.
I am being officially sensible 😉
I’m not sure if the majority of illegal immigrants jettison their documents. The majority come from countries we don’t have a returns agreement e.g. Iran, Somalia, Afghanistan etc. Migrants know this and know that even in the unlikely event a soft touch judge doesn’t grant them asylum they can’t be sent back to these countries so they can be quite open about their country of origin. If they destroyed their documents they wouldn’t be able to go back to the country they fled from in fear for their lives for a nice holiday, which is what some residents in luxury hotels have done.
They can’t technically be asylum seekers if they’re leaving a safe country, and the only reason they’re leaving France is because living in tent cities has lost its appeal when migrants that have taken the journey over the Channel before are sharing videos of how cushy they’ve got it, living in lovely hotels, luxury flats with all the perks, bagging cash in hand jobs on top of their government handouts etc. These tent-dwellers are incentivized and want a piece of that. It might sound far-fetched but sometimes I even wonder if the reason many are so comfortable disobeying the law and committing crimes ( often when they’ve barely been in the UK 5 minutes ) is because even going to jail is preferable to living in a tent on a cold, windy encampment or disused warehouse in Calais. The prospect of being stuck in a British prison doesn’t deter them and you have to ask yourself why that is. I’m also certain that any migrant getting into bother with the law is somebody who came over with no paperwork because they are already au fait with criminality in their homeland. They’ve got form and that’s why they don’t want authorities… Read more »
Absolutely.
If they’ve left France, why should France take them back?
Sorry Mogs, it’s up to Britain to protect its own borders.
Until then, make their “stay” in Britain so uncomfortable (British Sangatte?) that they either leave voluntarily, or come clean about who they are and where they came from so they can be dealt with normally and, if deemed necessary, deported.
Close the hotels, stop giving them money. But that’s not gonna happen until there’s some serious “personnel changes” at Head Office.
Because under the 1951 UN treaty on refugees, which France has signed up to, people should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach. It’s highly unlikely France was the first safe country anyone reaches but it’s up to the French to properly guard their borders and send people back to a safe country, including those we send back to them because they’ve pissed away hundreds of millions of pounds we gave them to stop the boats.
They are not refugees. Which makes that meaningless treaty even more meaningless.
If UK PLC wants to continue giving France PLC money for stupid stuff that France PLC neither needs nor wants to do, well…. that’s just daft of UK PLC, isn’t it.
I fully understand why huge numbers of people want to come to Europe for a better life than they can have in their “shithole”, as Trump once correctly called certain countries, country of origin even when they’re not genuine refugees and don’t blame them for wanting a better life.
This means that migration is always going to be a problem and it seems unfair that the burden of policing Europe’s borders should fall mostly on countries like Greece, Spain and Italy that are the first European country that most migrants arrive in. I’d be quite happy for the government to give a few hundred million pounds a year to any of these countries that are genuinely doing everything possible to keep Europe, and hence the UK, safe. Imo this type of migration can never be fully stopped, criminal gangs will always be finding ways of smuggling people into Europe so British funding should be conditional on countries significantly reducing, not entirely stopping, arrivals.
Spot on 👍
They have no right to be in this country. It is not British taxpayers who should be responsible for any costs starting with the costs of administration.
About turn toute suite.
I get your point, hux, of course. But about turn how, exactly?
100% Mogs. 👍👍👍
Ending the hotels will be a bonus for the government as they’ll then be able to scatter these illegals on to councils to house in HMOs, which will then make the amount they’re spending on this globalist ruse almost impossible to keep track of.
No, it’s the next phase of the game to save our nation.
For sure, all cultures are not equal, and certainly they aren’t all compatible. But this illustrates my point above. If you were a genuine asylum seeker, determined to start a new life in a completely different country and culture that you’d taken a long and arduous journey to get to, would you seriously behave like this when you finally get to your destination? Wouldn’t rule number one be to respect the laws of the land and keep your nose clean? Bit of a no-brainer, I’d have thought. But why can so many of them not manage to do even this? Ages ago I shared a research report on here which revealed the disproportionately high numbers of migrants arriving in Europe with mental health problems. Not just your basic bit of depression that you’d expect and that we all suffer from at some point, but serious psychiatric conditions. This also makes me wonder if many countries are emptying out both their prisons and mental institutions ( if the latter even exist in some third world countries for the none well off people ) and pointing these released inmates in the direction of Europe, because it definitely feels to me like we’re… Read more »
Indeed. I posted similar earlier today.
By making them the responsibility of local councils they blur the costs. Especially when central government delays or reneges on funding. We need proper accounting and accountability.
I’ve read 5 year contracts are being offfered to landlords at 30% above market value… so it’s all just smoke and mirrors. Spread the costs out thinner, and hope it all becomes opaque…
There’s even people commenting online that migrants are being housed in Haven and Butlins holiday parks, though I’ve not seen these claims verified as yet; ”In an act of apparent desperation, Britain’s left-wing government has begun contacting thousands of private rental properties to potentially house tens of thousands of supposed asylum seekers after a legal challenge threatens to quash the use of hotels to house mostly young male illegals in local communities. The Home Office — the government ministry tasked with managing immigration — had attempted to block the injunction to shut down the migrant hotel, arguing that it would “substantially impact” its ability to house migrants in hotels across Britain, given the likelihood of further challenges from other councils. This appears to have been prescient, with Brexit boss Nigel Farage promptly announcing that all 12 councils under control of his Reform UK party would be launching legal challenges in the wake of the Epping ruling. While this may have been predictable, the issue seems set to snowball as even councils controlled by the governing Labour Party said they plan on launching legal challenges as well, belying the widespread public anger over the scheme. Although the government gave the impression… Read more »
“…the government has been primarily targeting two-bedroom houses and flats to house, on average…”
In other words the Northern two ups two downs – traditional working class terraced houses. Well fancy that.
There has been much rejoicing since the Epping “victory.” The reality is that the government has achieved what it wanted – forced, yes FORCED by an off-message judge to scatter illegals all around the country such that initially they appear to be nothing more than irritating boils on our towns and villages.
Initially. As the numbers increase the boil gets bigger and what do untreated boils do?
Another win for Kneel and co.
Never believe the first interpretation of events in today’s world particularly if it appears to be a win for the plebs. And let’s not forget our judiciary has been bought.
One suggestion is to place tens of thousands of fighting age men in former military barracks here. What could possibly go wrong?
It’s deliberate Government policy. As it was under the last Government. They are implementing the Globalists’ policy to destroy western nation states via immigration. The people being imported now are the fighting age males they need for a civil conflict.
Until now, the Establishment was confident that the policy was a guaranteed CONsensus, because whichever branch of the Uni-Party was elected, the policy would continue with just minor tweaks to maintain the pretence that we have a choice.
Now, with the rise of the Reform Party the CON cannot be maintained for much longer. That is why nothing is being done to stop or reduce the invasion and the numbers coming are rapidly rising. They need to import sufficient to achieve their aim, before the next General Election becomes due.
A bit of growth for the Labour government to celebrate then. Illegal immigrant scum up. Inflation up. Energy prices up. Unemployment up. Business failures up. Private school closures up. National debt up. UK bond prices up. Taxes up. I cannot for the life of me think why Two Tier Kier needs a reset as it is all going so well on the growth front.