Migrants aren’t just pretending to be gay to stay in the UK—they’re also falsely claiming to be victims of domestic abuse.
That is according to the second part of a “major undercover investigation” into the “shadow industry of law firms and advisers,” conducted by the establishment BBC. This, as we reported yesterday, suggests a shift even in the mainstream narrative on border control.
Nigel Farage on Thursday praised the corporation for doing “some good work … for once.” His Reform UK party believes the existence of this sham industry is proof of the establishment’s—that is, both the Conservatives’ and Labour’s—inability to get a grip on migration.
In a lengthy report, the BBC says that migrants are being instructed to exploit the Home Office rule that “migrants who are the victims of domestic abuse and who are on temporary visas in the UK as the partners of British citizens can apply for a special concession.” It points to one case in which a migration advisor told an undercover reporter, acting as a migrant who wants to leave his British wife—to whom his visa is connected—to live with his mistress, to pretend he was the victim of domestic abuse. The advisor offers to fabricate this claim for just £900 (just over €1,000).
Reform’s Zia Yusuf said this “utterly disgusting” practice was proof that “the ‘human rights legal industrial complex’ has been weaponised to systematically defraud the British people.”
His colleague and former Conservative minister Robert Jenrick added that it showed “our border is a joke on the British people. One Labour and the Conservatives enable.”
“Nobody is a gay here. Not even 1% are gay. Not even 0.01% are gay.”
That’s what an illegal migrant attending a Worcester asylum seekers LGBT event told the BBC.
As their report shows, many are pretending to be gay to game the asylum system.
The party says it would work to clamp down on this industry by making the facilitating of false asylum claims punishable by up to two years in prison and by abolishing legal aid for asylum applications from those who enter the UK illegally “immediately.”
Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has, meanwhile, claimed that the “sham lawyers” behind these claims “will face the full force of the law.” But after all the government’s migration failures, very few are listening.
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_.
