Taxpayers Have To Cough Up Nearly £2 Billion Per Year On Hotel Rooms For Migrants
Nearly £2 billion per year is being spent on hotel rooms for migrants (£4.7 million per day). Recently, the government confirmedthat, between April 2021 and March 2022, just under £1 billion was spent on hotel accommodation for 25,000 asylum seekers. More has likely spent since then – with illegal boat arrivals between April and mid-June totalling […]
We Don’t Have The Infrastructure, Admits Home Secretary. Government Opens Borders And Communities Get Overwhelmed
In October 2021, while giving evidence to a House of Lords Committee regarding the government’s pledge to open up the UK to tens of thousands from Afghanistan, the Home Secretary made the following key admission: “We simply do not have the infrastructure or the accommodation” (Q2, p.3 of testimony to House of Lords committee, October 2021). This comes […]
Migration Watch Co-founder Lord Green Leads Fightback Against Open Borders In Parliament
“Our asylum system is in chaos, and very visibly so,” said Migration Watch UK President and Co-Founder Lord Green of Deddington in Parliament. “Large numbers of claimants are turning up on our beaches.” This week Lord Green spoke up in the House of Lords for more than 30 million Britons who are fed up with our […]
Covering Up Daily Boat Arrivals Is To Aid Transparency, Says Member Of Parliament
The government is censoring your right to know the truth. Never before have such frightened politicians resorted to such desperate, obvious means to hide their own failure from the people who voted them into office and who pay their salaries. As the increasingly hard-pressed public (burdened with rising energy costs and back-breaking inflation) forks out […]
Has The Channel Boat Cover Up Already Begun?
The government has failed to inform the public about whether there have been any illegal Channel crossings in boats for two whole weeks – since 26 January (see our Channel Tracking Station, sign the petitionto express concern about the boat cover up and write to your MP to say no here). From 26 January to 9 February last year 129 people reportedly […]
360,000 Have Come Here Via Direct Resettlement Routes Since 2005
On 15 June 2022, the Home Secretary statedin Parliament on 15 June: ‘Over 200,000 people have used safe and legal routes to come to the UK since 2015.’ Our fact-check finds that this is true. Not including refugee family reunion (2016-22), the number of people directly resettled to the UK was 267,000. If refugee family reunion is […]
Sign This Petition – We Must Have Transparency From The Home Office On Channel Boat Arrivals
Without transparency, democracy is impossible. Officials must not be able to get away with hiding the truth. Migration Watch UK has launched a petitionto tell the government that it must not cover up the daily arrival totals of people coming to the UK via the English Channel in boats. Instead it should continue to publish daily arrival totals, […]
Britain Not Obliged To Take In Europe’s Failed Asylum Claimants: Parliamentary Committee
Although we often criticise the political class for being out of touch on immigration, a Parliamentary Committee did make a sensible statement recently which is worth putting on record. The statement was made in response to written evidencewhich we submitted. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights recently said in a report: “It is not unreasonable to treat as […]
The Idea That The Government Is Delivering On Tackling Illegal Immigration Is Laughable
While announcing a welcome new returns agreement with Serbia, the Home Secretary, the government claimsthat it is ‘delivering on its promise to tackle illegal immigration and the harm it causes‘. Yet illegal boat crossings are six times as high as this point last year (with over 40,000 entering since end of 2017) point while lorry entries continue […]
Bringing In The Military On The Channel Is A Red Herring
A former naval commander recently told MPs that the Royal Navy’s worldwide reputation could be seriously damaged by becoming a taxi service for migrants across the Channel (see media report). He is correct. The handover to the Navy that was touted as being part of the insultingly-named ‘Operation Red Meat’ to try and save Boris Johnson’s […]