You Won't Believe What You're Paying for Refugees

This is getting a little crazy

We must be living in a simulation.

In a week where the Left is apoplectic that their dear leader Keir Starmer is cutting disability benefits, Rupert Lowe has just revealed how much we’re spending on refugees from stats drawn from the Department of Work and Pensions.

That figure was £726 million just last year. Now, Labour appears to have turbo-charged it to £1.1 billion. Not only is this extortionate increase unsustainable and catastrophic for the economy, but we are left—as usual—with no explanation as to how it can have gone up so egregiously.

With national spending, it can be hard to determine what ‘a lot’ is.

So let’s break it down.

Lowe points out that £1.1 billion is 1.8% of what we spend on welfare. This may seem insignificant. However, refugees make up just 0.5% of the population, meaning that we pay almost four times more for each refugee than we do for British-born citizens on Universal Credit. At a time when hard-off Brits are squeezed out of benefits, and our big earners are taxed high, it’s maddening to see so much spent on foreign nationals who arrived illegally.

For years, they told us that immigrants of all kinds and statuses boost the UK economy. In recent years, this mantra has been dispelled. Few still believe that high immigration is a boon for our economy, particularly with Poland doing so well despite turning its nose up at the Diversity is Our Strength motto. It remains to be seen how long Poland can keep this up, as it stands accused of brutality for enforcing its Belarus border. Immigration to Poland is already increasing dramatically.

Morally, countries are obliged to take in refugees. Yet, around one-third of ours is believed to have entered the country illegally on small boats. The vast majority of such arrivals - primarily young men - are given asylum and more funds than British citizens.

Bizarrely, the Home Office contracts state that migrants must get at least three-star hotels. Lower-rated hotels that many hard-working British people save up to afford to stay in are deemed too shabby for those who claim to be fleeing war (although it is unclear which war in France is causing them to risk their lives to cross the Channel).

This results in ridiculous situations in which the local economies of entire villages and towns in the UK are turned upside down. Take the historic four-star Camelot Castle Hotel. The government offered its owner, John Mappin, twice what he’d typically make in a year to turn it into a refugee hotel.

Where many other hotel owners rubbed their hands with glee, Mappin refused. This would have made the staff redundant and ruined the lives of villagers who rely on the tourism generated by the hotel. That’s not to mention the fear and safety issues these hotels create in villages.

Think that’s racist or xenophobic?

Lets look at the hard stats for crimes committed by immigrants:

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