Government amnesty to add £18bn to benefits bill...

Why are you surprised, it is only the beginning more of their nonsense to come

It was widely predicted that this is what would happen in the first instance, the boats would keep coming, which they have, and another amnesty is likely  no later than next spring.

In the first instance? Sandy, in any instance the boats are not going to stop, this government and the French will see to that. Starmers 'smash the gangs' is nothing but hot air, and you know it. Tbh, under this government I don't think amnesties will be necessary because amnesties are for illegal immigrants, and Starmer says there's no such thing as an illegal immigrant. In other words, as far as Starmer is concerned, Africa and the Middle East are welcome in the UK. Until there's mass civil disorder.

Importing as many foreign immigrants as possible while telling us that they are trying to stop them .
Sounds familiar.

This highlights the con job, or jobs, to get elected, that both parties say whatever to appease and please the electorate, then do something completely different.

If i worked for a company, gave a statement to the board which was all lies, when those lies were found out, id get a call telling me to clear my desk.

We cant do that, not for 5 yeears and they know it. Come the next election this will be forgotten, in effect, they are lying with impunity......so did the Tories.

Its ALWAYS easy to tear Daily Mail articles to pieces because they are usually so full of lies, missinformation, assumptions and propoganda.

FIrstly, lets look at the headline "Labour amnesty MAY add 40,000 illegals to welfare bill" and "COULD cost taxpayer £18 Bn.

Now lets look at the article itself "Labour's 'amnesty' for illegal migrants WILL add up to 44,000 people to Britain's welfare bill"  and  "This COULD hit taxpayers with a £17.8billion in extra costs over the migrants' lifetimes"

The entire article is full of "MAY's" and "COULD's" - its typical Daily Mail tripe, mostly all guess work dressed up to feed the Gammons.

Now lets look at the two massive lies (1) This paragraph here "The previous Conservative government passed a law banning arrivals on small boats from claiming asylum. It introduced a Duty to Remove, marking them for deportation either to Rwanda or their home country".

Firstly, to bar or ban arrivals on small boats from claiming Asylum would be a breech of international law, and a breech of treaties that the UK is a signatory of, so this is plain and simply a lie.

Secondly, the previous government were UNABLE to send any illegal immigrants or asylum seekers back to Afghanistan, Syria and several other countries, and this government also cannot send them back, therefore the line "Duty to remove" is a complete nonsense.

Rwanda ? - what percentage of Asylum Seekers were the last government hoping to send to Rwanda, it was either 1 or 2 percent, leaving 98% still here, and many of those 98% unable to be sent back to their home country.

Jenrick talks out of his arse, he knows that HIS government failed, he also knows that only a tiny fraction would ever have been sent to Rwanda, he also knows that many illegals / asylum seekers cannot be sent back to their home country, and both he and his party had no answers, no solutions, and did nothing.

Since the end of Freedom Of Movement, further exacerbated by Covid, this country has imported THOUSANDS of workers, mainly from West Africa to work in the care sector. Asylum seekers and illegal migrants are not allowed to work in this country, yet I personally know of asylum seekers with degrees who could work in pharmacies or hospitals.
Amongst the asylum seekers are doctors, nurses, people who would be glad to take up jobs in the care sector, hospitallity, factory work, in agriculture or cleaning hospitals.

An amnesty or a partial amnesty offers a genuine solution to a real problem that the last government could not solve, and it could provide some sectors of our economy with much needed labour.

No one knows what the government has in mind, it could be a programme involving a route to citizenship, involving work, good behaviour and signing up to "good citizenship programmes" including learning about the British way of life, language, involvement in the community etc. 

That was the Law under the Illegal Migration Act 2023 - since that Act came into force over 40,000 illegal migrants have arrived on these shores.

By scrapping that Law it means that those arrivals can now claim asylum and will be settled in the UK. The cost of that decision by Labour is the £18 billion that was cited. You might think that a price worth paying, but you cannot deny that a price will be paid.