£35.27 is the average cost of dry, clean clothes and shoes per refugee, asylum seeker or migrant plucked from Channel small boats so The Daily Telegraph £3,000 a day headline is inflammatory when it gives the impression folk are given free complete new wardrobes - ThreadSky

kevmag.bsky.social • 34 days ago

£35.27 is the average cost of dry, clean clothes and shoes per refugee, asylum seeker or migrant plucked from Channel small boats so The Daily Telegraph £3,000 a day headline is inflammatory when it gives the impression folk are given free complete new wardrobes

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braunton-mark.bsky.social•34 days ago

I volunteered at an asylum seeker hotel in Ilfracombe when people were shipped there from Manston after the scandal there. They arrived without even a change of underwear or socks. Everything they recd was donated. I was shocked and ashamed of being British, that we treated refugees this way.

mantascox.bsky.social•34 days ago

The fact that a country that allegedly prides itself on its Christian heritage finds it so easy to demonise others never fails to surprise me. It’s depressing, frustrating and heartbreaking.

braunton-mark.bsky.social•34 days ago

I totally agree and the poltical party that presided over this dreadful episode is full of Ministers wearing their various religions on their sleeves. Hypocrisy personified.

mantascox.bsky.social•34 days ago

Decency, kindness and compassion are a part of any religion I have been exposed to…these people do not represent the people of different faiths that I know.

sandypalma.bsky.social•34 days ago

It's the Telegraaf, what do you expect. Facts? Accurate reporting? Accountability? Ethics? Spelling? ( Ok I'll give you that one )

wulstantempest.bsky.social•34 days ago

35.27? having worked within this environment and seen what is given to them I can assure you that someone is making a lot of money on the back of this.

ealdominicb.bsky.social•34 days ago

Yep, the privatisation of misery is extremely profitable

alunited442.bsky.social•34 days ago

Too true

markeye.bsky.social•34 days ago

Facts, accuracy and objective reporting have long been a foreign country to the Daily Telegraph.

shoveller.bsky.social•34 days ago

Of course the Torygraph made things up - they have an agenda and pander to a xenophobic readership.

markcnorwich.bsky.social•34 days ago

So over a year that's just over £1m. The Telegraph is outraged, unlike the near £1bn spent on the Rwanda scheme which it fully supported.

brianhprobert.bsky.social•34 days ago

Or the £500 million they are likely to stuff their creditors for

paulleach53.bsky.social•34 days ago

How odd that chris philp never noticed this when he was a member of the government

frankieboy1964.bsky.social•34 days ago

As of December 2024, the UK's public sector net debt reached approximately £2.8 trillion, equating to about 100% of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
https://ons.gov.uk

In the 2023/24 financial year, the government borrowed £131 billion, representing 4.8% of GDP. Uk Borrowing for Tax Dodgers.

scargil.bsky.social•34 days ago

And at £35.27 for cleaning a set of clothes is again a clear sign that people are clearly profiteering from the current asylum system.

trishap.bsky.social•34 days ago

Bet the telegraph bloke won’t be wearing a complete ensemble for £35 quid!

rolandbutter.bsky.social•34 days ago

Proper regulation of Fleet Street is needed. Back to Starmer again. He lacks the bottle to do Leveson 2.

backosaur.bsky.social•34 days ago

Or to provide context: the money wasted on the Rwanda scheme would have clothed 20M refugees.

sarahmay1.bsky.social•34 days ago

If that larger figure has any basis it will be from the day rates of the various officials involved to make sure that 'regulations are followed' the cost is not from caring, but from policing

argylepwl.bsky.social•34 days ago

Profiteering is killing UK growth in almost every sector of our Community.

braunton-mark.bsky.social•34 days ago

Clearspring has made a fortune out of managing the Home Office contract. Profiting from desperate people, what a business model.

argylepwl.bsky.social•34 days ago

Truly shocking. Don't think a single sector in our Society is free from the stain of abuse.

ralphhickman.bsky.social•34 days ago

Or more specifically Graham King has paid himself a fortune...
https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/hmrc-urged-to-investigate-asylum-hotel-firm-over-payments-to-apparent-offshore-company/

braunton-mark.bsky.social•34 days ago

Yep from running dilapidated caravan parks to billion pound Home Office contracts to exploit asylum seekers. What an utter POS

ralphhickman.bsky.social•34 days ago

Don't forget about former RAF base at Wethersfield...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/23/like-a-stalag-locals-condemn-asylum-seeker-housing-on-essex-air-base

nmwilkinson.bsky.social•34 days ago

Bloody woke Christian values

justj1.bsky.social•34 days ago

It's the telegraph, I'd expect no less..... telegraph Tory trash rag

apf102.bsky.social•34 days ago

Indeed. Worth also contrasting with the fact that CEOs of big companies like Shell are salaried at around £25k per day, so could technically foot the bill individually if they wanted. And that’s before we look at the billionaires. 0.2% of Musk’s total wealth would pay all those costs for 100 years

bill6750.bsky.social•34 days ago

Tell Pierce

bairdyblues.bsky.social•34 days ago

I'm surprised then can be in the same room together

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