All aboard!

[Mottie]

Is the back log caused by the constant merry go round caused by the appeals process?

 

[Odds]

Exactly. What a complete and utter balls up the government has made of this whole thing. Instead of investing £££ in employing & training more people to process claims, we get guff like the barge. And, such is the robustness of the plan (not), they've evidently not even considered what would happen if any of the migrants refused to get on the blo0dy thing!

The number of asylum seekers being housed in hotels has gone up by 3,000 since the end of March. Interim figures released by the Home Office show a record 50,546 were in so-called contingency accommodation at the end of June.

At the end of July the number of asylum decision-makers employed by the Home Office was 1,729, up from 1,556 a month earlier. The backlog of cases awaiting an initial decision is at 136,779, slightly down on the previous month when it was 138,700.

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One barge holding 500 people doesn't make much of a difference to the number housed throughout the rest of the UK.
I guess it takes time to train the newbies in offices and since the numbers arriving from abroad are increasing then the number of trainees will have to rise in order to keep up.

 

[JP_]

However, I'm not sure I'd equate where these migrants have been housed (including the barge) as being like prisons.

Are they free to leave when they want? Can they pop down the pub, or get a job?
Might be worse than a prison. Certainly much worse than an open prison.

Bibby Stockholm:

HMP Garth

 

[motorbiking]

How many asylum processing officers would that cover?

And when they are approved. They need somewhere to live and if denied, they need somewhere to live until they leave or appeal etc etc. it’s not money that can be spent elsewhere.

The best way to reduce the cost is to reduce the demand.

 

[Mottie]

However, I'm not sure I'd equate where these migrants have been housed (including the barge) as being like prisons.

Are they free to leave when they want?

Yes

Can they pop down the pub

Yes

or get a job

Under certain conditions, yes.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Are they free to leave when they want? Can they pop down the pub, or get a job?
Might be worse than a prison. Certainly much worse than an open prison.

Bibby Stockholm:
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HMP Garth
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If reports are to be believed, yes they are free to come and go. However they need to sign an in/out register.

I get a bit fed up with the counter arguments that are constantly put forward about the UK's treatment of these people. What is the solution then? To give them a new build house and a job that pays the average UK wage until such times as their claim is completed?

If I'd fled persecution, I'd be grateful to be given basic board and lodgings that were clean and safe. I wouldn't be expecting to receive all the trappings of whatever country until such times as my claim was approved.

 

[motorbiking]

Me too.

However, if I’d payed 3k for the promise of 4 star hotel, free money, lawyers and the ability to get a job with a criminal gang to help me get my first Lamborghini I’d want a refund.

 

[JP_]

Apparently, this barge costs us more than putting them in a hotel.
As usual, somebody somewhere is making more money from all this.

 

[JP_]

And, apparently, more people claimed asylum in 2002 than in 2022, but we didn't have this problem back then.

What changed? Hmmm....

 

[Odds]

And, apparently, more people claimed asylum in 2002 than in 2022, but we didn't have this problem back then.

What changed? Hmmm....

BREXIT.

 

[motorbiking]

I think the government were getting flack for pushing people out of hotels to house them.

A lot more were rejected in 2002.

But also it’s s net capacity effect. The flow in may have reduced, but we have around 1m more than we did back then.

 

[Dork Lard]

Forward thinkers are trying to predict any possible outcomes of the plans being made today & how they will affect us in the near / medium future . . . .

One possibility that arises from a CBDC is to place heavy pressure on renters, & homeowners who enjoy spare bedrooms, to let them out !

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Apparently, this barge costs us more than putting them in a hotel.
As usual, somebody somewhere is making more money from all this.

Its just a right wing dog whistle.

Taking the attention away from elsewhere

 

[denso13]

Money better off spent elsewhere as has been explained before

Government seem happy with the situation else they would doing something about it.

 

[denso13]

One possibility that arises from a CBDC is to place heavy pressure on renters, & homeowners who enjoy spare bedrooms, to let them out !

No it isn't.