Staggering cost of paying for illegal migrants simply cannot continue | UK | News

One billion is a big number. It’s really big. You can count out loud to one million by next Thursday. Count to one billion and finish in 2057. Your kids would be grandparents, we’d be living on the Moon, floating around on jet rockets, that kind of thing. And we could successfully return about 27 illegal immigrants to France.

That’s how big the number one billion is. So you can’t be shocked, no, that’s not a big enough word, stunned, stunned, stunned and literally breathless by the news that the Home Office has ‘wasted’ billions of pounds on asylum hotels.

That’s the billions of pounds you go out making every day, getting out of bed in the morning, working your ass off all day and coming home exhausted at night to pay off people, many of whom come through criminal networks who have no right to be here.

It goes without saying that not a single one of them pays a penny into the system that supports them.

There is.

Those who do good, that means you too, for you are an Englishman, and doing good is largely what we do; You refuse to cover the numbers or the cost.

But we really need it, because whatever your moral and political view on the small boat issue, a nation that is currently on a one-way ticket to bankruptcy cannot afford it.

Isn’t everything that gives you goosebumps about this country right now in today’s new Home Office report?

The weakness and foolishness of our politicians, the incompetence, arrogance and laziness of those considered our Civil Service, the greedy businesses lining their pockets at our expense and that age old pastime of the public sector… throwing your money around with neither professionalism nor accountability because, hey, there’s so much more where that came from.

(A message from Rachel Reeves will arrive in a few days asking you for more money.)

The UK – that means you – will spend almost £16 BILLION on housing illegal immigrants over the next few years, according to the report described today as “one of the most damning reports ever published in Britain’s dysfunctional Home Office”. This is so much money that it is in line with the cost of a large Government department such as Culture, Media and Sport, for example.

And let’s be honest, you can see that the Illegal Immigration Bureau has achieved this, right?

You can read the report for yourself elsewhere in the Home Office, but let me give you an idea: “incompetence”, “failed, chaotic and expensive”, “blatant failure”, “excessive profit”, “cannot rise to the challenge”, “inexplicable and unacceptable failure of accountability”.

Now you will get the idea.

A truly breathtaking betrayal of the British people.

Tory MP Dame Karen Bradley, chair of the committee, said: “The Home Office presided over a failed refugee accommodation system that cost taxpayers billions of pounds.

“Its response to increased demand has been rushed and chaotic, and the department has neglected the day-to-day management of these contracts.

“The government needs to gain control over the refugee accommodation system to reduce costs and hold providers accountable for poor performance. Urgent action is needed.”

And he’s right. But isn’t that just more words? And don’t think we are missing the irony that it is a largely Conservative Government that has presided over much of this mess.

We’ve been talking for 20 years… and the boats keep coming in larger and larger numbers.

It’s probably time to take action. And if this means breaking the most vague thing of all, “international law”, then it is time to sit down and change international law. And if that makes a bunch of international lawyers clutch their pearls, so be it.

The tail has wagged the dog for too long.