£3k incentive for failed Asylum Seekers
£3k incentive for failed Asylum Seekers
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alfaman

Original Poster:

6,416 posts

264 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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The latest Government plan to encourage failed Asylum seekers to leave the UK is to pay them £3k each ..... easier than all the forced removal hassle ...... apparently ( As the Govt has been missing its own targets on removal rates )

I do wonder though to what extent this will act as a magnet for more people to come to the UK to spuriously claim asylum

........is there an arbitrage opportunity here for some entrepreneurs ? as £3k is rather more than the single airfare from most African countries and represents 20 years pay for many people.

Saied

1,575 posts

249 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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Pay me half that for each one and i'd kindly chauffeuer them back in the rear of a 42 tonner. An example of the PFI in action. How about it, Bliar?

Flat in Fifth

48,919 posts

281 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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The knee jerk reaction is that they should just kick the beggars out.

Objectively though they are not achieving that, and it appears to cost £11k for every one that does actually go, so will this actually save mone?

What should happen is a declared cut off date to stop new people arriving with the hidden agenda of staying long enough for their application to fail etc etc and then get the handout. Also anyone after that date won't qualify either even if they are already here in order to encourage them just to "gettt oorrfff moi laaand!"

whats the betting HMG wrap it all up with an amnesty.



>> Edited by Flat in Fifth on Friday 13th January 13:15

Jaglover

46,820 posts

265 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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If there are sufficient border controls to prevent them coming back into the country then 3K is a very cheap way of dealing with the problem.

It will cost that in benefits to keep them here a few months.

alfaman

Original Poster:

6,416 posts

264 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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Saied said:
Pay me half that for each one and i'd kindly chauffeuer them back in the rear of a 42 tonner. An example of the PFI in action. How about it, Bliar?


My early-retirement idea was to charter a plane from Mogadishu ... advertised as "free flight to London" for 300 people

Then split the £900k proceeds.

chris watton

22,547 posts

290 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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I'm not so sure about this £11k figure to remove them, most of that figure is taken up with the appropriate people being paid for what they do their jobs in that perticular area, a bit like saying a scuffle outside a nightclub cost the taxpaers x amount of ££s, but is that no the reason the Police are employed? Likewise, the immigration authorities!

timmy30

9,325 posts

257 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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I'm not an illeagal immigrant, but I have been paying tax in the UK for 14 years and I am leaving soon...... do you think I'll qualify for £3k?

slapmatt

1,132 posts

252 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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The Government should introduce a "friend" scheme for failed asylum seekers. It works like this:

Each failed asylum seeker is partnered with a hard-working, law-abiding, tax-paying British citizen. This citizen then has 2 choices -

1) They can either let the failed asylum seeker live with them - this will appeal to lettuce eating Guardian readers.

2) The citizen is supplied with a sharp stick and a map to Dover and it's their job to "encourage" the failed asylum seeker to leave this green and pleasant land.

Every Sunday you'll see hundreds of people with pointy sticks herding foreign-looking types down the M20.

Saied

1,575 posts

249 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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timmy30 said:
I'm not an illeagal immigrant, but I have been paying tax in the UK for 14 years and I am leaving soon...... do you think I'll qualify for £3k?

If you're a hard working, law abiding, tax paying citizen, then...


no.

CupraR

676 posts

259 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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If the government want them to leave just give me a baseball bat and point me to where they're staying. For 10K I'll get rid of the lot of them.

timmy30

9,325 posts

257 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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Saied said:
timmy30 said:
I'm not an illeagal immigrant, but I have been paying tax in the UK for 14 years and I am leaving soon...... do you think I'll qualify for £3k?

If you're a hard working, law abiding, tax paying citizen, then...


no.


Maybe I can write to Gordon Brown for a refund?

Swilly

9,699 posts

304 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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Ok

..on with the headress, the gravy browning and the comedy mousctache and

ello, I am ksdhfklshdksh from ethniccleansingastan looking for asylum....No..ok got me £3k and i'm off, thanks....kerching

..on with the dodgy haircut, the pale skin paint and the comedy mousctache and

ello, I am sjhfjshfjshfjh from easteurostonia looking for asylum....No..ok got me £3k and i'm off, thanks....kerching

..on with the .....

tallbloke

10,376 posts

313 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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timmy30 said:
Saied said:
timmy30 said:
I'm not an illeagal immigrant, but I have been paying tax in the UK for 14 years and I am leaving soon...... do you think I'll qualify for £3k?

If you're a hard working, law abiding, tax paying citizen, then...


no.


Maybe I can write to Gordon Brown for a refund?


Just stop paying tax now, they'll probably not catch you before you leave.

8Pack

5,182 posts

270 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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I think that when they arrive home in "wherever" with £3k in their sticky little mitt, people are going to get killed in the rush!......

timmy30

9,325 posts

257 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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tallbloke said:

Just stop paying tax now, they'll probably not catch you before you leave.


I'm on PAYE for now.

Jaglover

46,820 posts

265 months

Friday 13th January 2006
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Swilly said:
Ok

..on with the headress, the gravy browning and the comedy mousctache and

ello, I am ksdhfklshdksh from ethniccleansingastan looking for asylum....No..ok got me £3k and i'm off, thanks....kerching

..on with the dodgy haircut, the pale skin paint and the comedy mousctache and

ello, I am sjhfjshfjshfjh from easteurostonia looking for asylum....No..ok got me £3k and i'm off, thanks....kerching

..on with the .....


Perhaps DNA testing would come in handy here