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> all while his government gives every illegal immigrant free hotel accomodation and a huge weekly allowance higher to make them come in the first place.

People seeking asylum in the UK receive £49.18 per week[1], and get thrown into monstrously low quality accommodation - the current government essentially throws them into prison barges[2].

You really should read something other than tabloids. The reality of the situation is nothing like what you’ve described.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get [2] https://theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/14/people-o...

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You seem to miss they are coming from countries where the average salary for a 70 hour working week is £50 a month while they lived in a corrugated steal house with no electricity, (mostly because the American proxies blew up their actual houses)

meanwhile, after 6 months of failing to find a job english families are being thrown onto the streets by the 10s of thousands to live in sleeping bags and eat from food banks.

1 in 52 people in London is homeless - the belief is none of them are immigrants.

In that world routinely keeping key evidence from the defence, and far worse, is 100% to be expected.

do some cost of living adjustment with that 50 pounds. and don't forget that they are not allowed to work.

thousands of English families are out of jobs because the UK left the EU, also because the underfunded NHS folks are not getting the care they need and thus many people end up with severe disabilities that would have been manageable. (or they are taking care of someone because there's no help from the system.)

20% of the UK workforce, nearly 9 million employees, were not born in the UK.

leaving the EU has nothing to do with any of the UKs major problems, which are massive national debt, government corruption, complete lack of ethics or values left in any of its institutions, the systematic dismantling of the NHS and a legal system more interested in saving face and protecting wealthy criminal interests than actually practicing justice.

Then wonder why everyone dislikes immigrants getting the lions share of social benefits and having 0% trust in any of the institutions.

people disliking "immigrants getting too much benefits" - while important for politics - doesn't make it true.

cost of brexit is about 2-3% of GDP roughly the same as spending on immigrants. (most of whom pay taxes.)

also worth mentioning is that the aging UK population would be in an even worse state without those workers.

leaving the EU is a perfect symptom of the other problems you listed.

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/impact-brexit- uk-economy-reviewing-evidence

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/th...

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