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The Great Asylum Swindle

by David Craig
7 November 2023 7:00 AM

By the turn of the millennium there was concern about the number of people applying for asylum in the U.K. Then-Prime Minister Tony Blair promised to reduce the number of asylum seekers, and by April 2005 he could proudly announce that he had supposedly ‘succeeded’ when he claimed: “Asylum applications have fallen from over 8,000 a month to just over 2,000. The next set of statistics will show that monthly application are back to their lowest level since March 1997.”

How did Blair accomplish this apparent miracle of effective Government? As the chart below (from my 2008 book Squandered: How Gordon Brown is wasting over one trillion pounds of our money) shows, Blair did it by showering migrants with British citizenships provided they didn’t try to seek asylum.

Our current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to “stop the boats” and to cut the 175,000 or so backlog of asylum seekers currently costing us probably more than £10m a day in accommodation, security, medical care, pocket money and other costs. I hardly need to comment on how successful Mr. Sunak has been in stopping the boats. So let’s look at how Rishi Sunak is cutting the backlog of asylum claimants.

First, here’s a chart of the percentage of asylum claimants granted asylum by country in the EU:

You’ll see that the EU average approval rate is just over 30%.

Some countries like Bulgaria have a high rate of approvals. But that’s probably because the country has so few asylum claimants:

As for Italy – the country with the second highest rate of asylum approvals – probably most asylum claimants in the EU originally land in Italy, but not that many want to stay there. Though I haven’t found an explanation why so many who do stay in Italy gain the right to remain.

So, if the approval rate for the EU is just over 30%. What do you think the approval rate for the U.K. is? About 30% – the same as the EU? Perhaps 40% – a little higher than the EU? Or maybe even 50% – well above the level for the EU?

Well, the U.K. rate of asylum approvals is actually around 76%.

But even worse, most of those refused asylum are never deported and so remain in the country anyway.

I wonder if the fact that the U.K. has an asylum approval rate of twice the EU average is going to dissuade Third World migrants from coming to Britain or will this act as an irresistible magnet? And I wonder whether the fact that very few of those refused asylum ever get deported will dissuade Third World migrants from coming to Britain or will this act as an irresistible magnet?

Our current political leaders’ policy of showering approvals on any illegal migrant arriving in Britain will no doubt help give the impression that they are clearing the backlog of asylum claimants. Then Sunak and his gang will, like Blair’s New Labour before them, claim a stunning ‘success’.

The other advantage of approving asylum applications for almost all illegal migrants is that this will also appear to reduce the daily cost of housing them. Because, once their applications are approved, it will be the duty of local authorities, rather than central Government, to provide housing and other services for the new arrivals. This will allow the useless ‘New Labour’ Tories to claim another ‘success’ by having supposedly reduced the daily cost of asylum claimants.

Our rulers lied to us about controlling the number of asylum seekers under New Labour and they’re pulling the same tricks under the Tories. Please, don’t get fooled again.

David Craig is the author of There is No Climate Crisis, available as an e-book or paperback from Amazon.

Tags: Asylum SeekersImmigrationPropagandaRishi SunakSmall boats crisisTony Blair

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Grahamb
Grahamb
1 year ago

At a high level the linked report doesn’t obviously show the % quoted but does talk about the U.K. having lower numbers of asylum seekers per 10,000. Looking at the varying % and different sizes of population, I suspect we are close to quota by country?

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Grahamb

But we are now the most densely populated country in Europe. Poland and Hungary don’t feel obliged to fill their country with the uncivilised clutter from all parts of the globe so why are we doing it?

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

I think this German politician from the SDP over there speaks to this when he explained his reasons for his recent stepping down from his position;

”Stefan Kerth, the district administrator of Vorpommern-Rügen in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern told local party members on Monday that he was stepping back from the party and unleashed a scathing critique of the federal government’s approach to the ongoing migrant crisis enveloping Germany.

“For a long time now, I have perceived the politics of the SPD and the left-of-center political camp as being too strongly driven by ideology and insufficiently oriented towards the reality of life,” said Kerth, as cited by Zeit Online.

He expressed it had been a difficult decision for him to leave the party but claimed that local governments and authorities were experiencing a “declining ability to enforce the rule of law” and warned that “without a clear monopoly of violence on the part of the state, parallel societies develop their own monopolies on violence.”

Kerth attributed the surge in electoral support toward the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) to the federal government’s refusal to implement a sustainable migration policy and claimed that the current level of taxpayer-funded support for newcomers was causing resentment among voters.
“According to my observation, the success of the AfD is a direct result of a policy that many perceive as aloof and unrealistic.
“That too, welfare money. It promotes the utopia of an effortless life. It’s not socially fair,” he said.”

https://rmx.news/germany/german-district-administrator-resigns-from-governing-spd-over-disastrous-asylum-policy/

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

It was obvious from the outset that this was Sunak’s plan.

Deportations are not taking place – ergo they are staying here.

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wokeman
wokeman
1 year ago

Short version get here by boat you’ll never be asked to leave. This is unsurprising the civil service despise their own “bigoted” population.

Last edited 1 year ago by wokeman
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10navigator
10navigator
1 year ago

Our decision to flit to Spain 22 years ago is vindicated regularly by articles like this. I thought Blair at that time was shifty, and Mandelson positively Machiavellian, so our decision was made all the easier. I got it hopelessly wrong with Cameron, thinking he may have offered hope, so was disappointed when he turned out to be the epitome of a shiny-faced mountebank. And to cap it all, It’s all gone downhill since then. What a state of affairs!

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  10navigator

Well, on the topic of Spain and migrants, if anything’s going to make many of us think twice about going to a favourite holiday destination it’s reports such as this. I’m gutted to see what’s occurring over there, personally, as I always enjoyed visiting Spain;

”Holidaymakers in Spain could soon find themselves sharing their luxury hotels with illegal African migrants after several hoteliers were offered cash by pro-migration charities to accommodate new arrivals flown to the Spanish mainland from the saturated Canary Islands.

Under government plans, thousands of migrants are being transported from the Spanish archipelago to the Valencian Community to help alleviate the crisis enveloping the islands.
Over 32,000 illegal crossings from Western Africa have now been detected on the Canaries so far this year, surpassing the record annual total of 31,678 set back in 2006.
HOSBEC, the hotel and tourism association located in vacation hotspot Benidorm, told Spanish media that several hotels had been approached by human rights organizations “offering them proposals for renting accommodation for refugees during the coming weeks.”

According to reports, hoteliers have been offered €40 a night for each migrant they provide accommodation for.”

https://rmx.news/migrant-crisis/holidaymakers-to-share-spanish-hotels-with-illegal-african-migrants/

Last edited 1 year ago by Mogwai
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10navigator
10navigator
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

We live on the Med coast an hour north of Valencia Mogs. I don’t doubt for moment we’ll all get a taste of ‘migrantitis’, it’s inevitable, especially with a putative left-leaning government. Having a ‘conservative’ administration running the show in UK to prevent such incursions must be a source of comfort. (ahem!)
We had a fair influx of Ukranians last year, mostly driving Audis and Porsches and occupying rented accommodation, so we aren’t immune from life’s curved balls.
The last 22 years here has been a joy, after taking retirement from working in the City for a decade in 2001 it was quite a contrast to retire to a village of a couple of thousand souls.
The Guardia Civil here are feared and respected, whilst Mossos up in Catalunya are even more uncompromising, shooting dead five terrorist suspects up in Cambrils an hour north of here just a few years ago. In UK, we were burgled once in Yorkshire and twice in Essex. Everywhere has its downsides, but I know where I feel safest, and it ain’t Blighty.
By the way, Benidorm’s the pits. I once stayed there for a lads weekend 20 years ago. The refugees are welcome to it.
At 75, I’m in life’s departure lounge, for which I’m resignedly thankful. I’m glad, thanks to the Blair creatue, I foresaw the ‘solids hitting the air conditioning’ when I did. Our two grown up, bilingual, children are free to make their own (unjabbed) choice in life.
Regards.

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
1 year ago

“Please, don’t get fooled again”. Being fooled isn’t the issue. It makes no difference whether we are fooled or not, the immigration jihad proceeds unmolested. Neither Conservatives nor Labour want to do anything about it other than encourage, facilitate and obfuscate. And the other smaller parties are so fragmented that they offer nothing.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

The one world government fans just love mass immigration. They know it will mean we don’t feel like citizens of a nation and just like citizens of the world and so much easier to govern by the world government in waiting technocrats. ——What we get for our mass immigration is the importing of every bit of sectarianism and hate brought to our doorsteps (as we see now on a daily basis) and if we decide it isn’t a great idea we are name called as “racists”. ——-All those who disagree with Liberal Progressive dogmas have to be called names. —–You are either an Islamophobe, a Climate Denier or suffer from a whole series of malady’s that require your re-education into being a nice little communist that lets government decide on everything you can say or think.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

Destroy National identity and Culture. The policy never spoken about.

blairhitler
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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

All part of the Marxist plan….

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Sinor
Sinor
1 year ago

The Globalists Coudenhove Kalergi plan was fully implemented by the Fascist Tony Blair and his cohorts .No surprises then that the policy has continued under the Leftist Blairtite Tories since 2010 .

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thelightcavalry
thelightcavalry
1 year ago

We need a leader to address the UK’s demographic destiny. We are heading towards an Islamic plurality, a cohesive force which will dominate, maybe already does dominate, UK cities, and hence the whole country.
The only escape is to reduce the numbers of muslims. Ideas:
Zero immigration from muslim countries;
Zero visas ditto;
Expel illegals;
Revoke citizenship for fellow-travelling terrorists;
Disallow political Islam.

This isn’t racist, obviously, and the West isn’t a suicide pact. It’s simply reality that Islam seeks to conquer the rest with whatever cruelty and lying and insinuation gets the job done, as shown by the last 1500 years of history. I actually respect a lot of things about Islamic culture and like nearly all the muslims I do business with or play football with, but reality is what it is, not what I’d like it to be.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  thelightcavalry

I actually respect a lot of things about Islamic culture and like nearly all the muslims I do business with or play football with, but reality is what it is, not what I’d like it to be.

Speaking only for myself, I’ve become totally tired of these people who routinely misinterpret politeness as meek submission and believe every issue on this planet can be resolved by having a public shouting contest. Feel like chanting From the river to the sea … ! or having similar tantrums in the street? Why don’t you go over there and fight instead of making a nuisance of yourself here?

Last edited 1 year ago by RW
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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  thelightcavalry

The horse has bolted though. It is too late.

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RW
RW
1 year ago

The situation is essentially identical in Germany except that people on state support in Germany get way more money combined with seriously lower prices on almost everything. Not to mention a health system which is not always teetering on the brink of disaster because it’s core mission is really Fight structural racism and heteronormativity
or whatever its many political organizations want to achieve today.

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mandtmarsh
mandtmarsh
1 year ago

There are two reasons Bulgaria has a high percentage of successful applications.
One: we don’t have welfare and we have tight borders, so they just don’t come, and
Two: most of our applicants are Ukrainians, therefore genuine refugees.

Last edited 1 year ago by mandtmarsh
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