BRITS struggling to live have “every right to be angry” about illegal migrants getting cushy hotel rooms, Nigel Farage said yesterday.
The Reform leader hailed The Sun’s front page for laying bare the crippling cost of asylum accommodation.
Nigel Farage has said Brits have ‘every right to be angry’ about the cost of hotels for migrants[/caption]
We told the case of Stuart Whittaker – a former factory worker from Hull who is now homeless – feeling he had been “shoved to the back of the queue”.
Downing Street yesterday admitted it was “absolutely not” fair that locals like him are sofa-surfing while taxpayers fork out for migrant hotels.
Also addressing the story in Port Talbot, Mr Farage said: “What I tell your man from Hull, is he has every right to be upset.
“Every right to be angry.
“Just don’t say anything on social media or Keir Starmer will put you in prison.”
He said that while legal migration has a bigger strain on public services, it is the “sheer unfairness of these young men” coming across the Channel illegally that rubs people up.
The cost of paying for asylum support has ballooned to around £4.7billion annually, and around 15,000 migrants have arrived from France this year already.
Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesman said: “It’s not fair that tens of thousands of people are stuck in an asylum backlog that’s wasting billions of pounds of taxpayers money, and that’s why we’re focused on taking the action needed to reduce the number of asylum seekers and hotels.”
Minister Chris Bryant yesterday insisted that the “best deterrent” against small boats was processing asylum claims quicker.
He was slammed by Tory Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, who said: “This is dangerous nonsense from a weak Labour Government.
“Giving illegal immigrants asylum faster is no deterrent – it will just attract even more to come here.
“A real deterrent would be removing every single illegal immigrant who arrives in the UK to somewhere like Rwanda.”
