The British taxpayers have found themself at the rotten end of yet another migration deal, which will see deported migrants being given free hotel stays, mental health support, and help finding a job after they have been returned to their home country.
GB News journalist Christopher Hope revealed on Monday that the Home Office is offering to pay a charity or a company £1.8 million (€2.07 million) to provide “reintegration support” to those who have been removed from the UK to Algeria and Sri Lanka.
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Deported migrants – some of whom could be foreign criminals – are to be offered free hotel stays, mental health support, and even help with finding a job or setting up a business after they have been deported to their home countries.
The government is hoping to fill the two-year contract by April. Whoever is handed the taxpayer cash to fulfil these duties is also being tasked with providing “assistance with family tracing and reunification services; and support with in-country redocumentation requirements.”
A Home Office source told Hope that this assistance had played “a crucial part in negotiating returns arrangements with other countries.” Sources also said it was cheaper to pay migrants to go home than to keep them in Britain.
But former Conservative Home Office minister Tom Pursglove described this as “frankly staggering,” saying the scheme amounted to “gold-plated support on the British taxpayer.”
Barrister Steven Barrett said the contract was further proof that “Britain is Broken.”
The Labour government was also under fire last week over its refusal to leave the Strasbourg-based European Convention on Human Rights, which continues to undermine any serious attempt to enforce border control. Ministers have argued that quitting the ECHR would place the UK in the same “camp” as Russia and Belarus.
However, a new report claimed that Britain outside the ECHR could be more suitably likened to “Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, which are common law states that share a constitutional tradition with the UK.”
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
