By Leicestershire Correspondent
The UK is to commit another £100m to supporting refugees in camps bordering Syria, David Cameron has said
During the time Cameron and the Tories disgracefully agreed, without consultation of the public, to accept 20,000 plus Syrian asylum seekers (economic migrants) into the UK they were also set to allocate an additional £100m to help Syrian asylum seekers in the camps. This would make the UK the biggest donor in terms of financial aid in the EU, with £1bn committed to the Syrian asylum seekers since 2012.
The Government seems to be turning its back on another group in the UK, with respect to the need for housing support. Evidence from Centrepoint shows a rise in youth homelessness, with many being turned away from help by local government. Around 136,000 young people aged between 16 and 24 in England and Wales sought emergency housing in the past year according to analysis by the Centrepoint charity.
Last year only 40% of young people asking for support were given an assessment to find out if they were eligible for support from local authorities. Government figures on homelessness only show those who are “statutory homeless”. They are the people for which local authorities have to legally find suitable housing for. The rise in numbers could well be higher, as local authorities are not required to record the number of people asking them for help.
Figures compiled by the Department of Communities and local government and by devolved authorities show that there were 26,852 statutory homeless young people across the UK in 2014. And there are about 35,000 young people in homeless accommodation at any one time across Britain.
This comes amid warnings that Britain is heading for an apparent housing crisis, with the numbers of households in temporary accommodation at almost 65,000 – the highest since 2008.
The Conservatives have repeatedly proposed 18-21 year old job seekers should not be allowed to claim housing benefit. Meanwhile, Labour would scrap all out-of-work benefits for unqualified young people, replacing them with a means-tested Youth Allowance – which could remove housing benefit entitlement. Many of those faced with homeless, come from families where domestic violence is present – many are females. However, Cameron and the Tories are quite happy to take tax from those aged 18 -21.
Moreover, as a First World Nation and a so-called responsible society, we should not on the one hand say that we want to reduce those young who are not in education, employment, training, suffer from domestic violence, family breakdown and thus protect vulnerable young people. On another hand cut housing options for these groups, through cuts or prioritising the needs of newcomers from the Third World, who often have little interest in our values and history. A stable place to live is the foundation of any education or employment and personal progression. We should invest in our own population first and ensure they do not go without, before even considering helping other countries and their populations.
Last year the Government handed over £12 billion of taxpayers’ money on foreign aid. One can only imagine how many social houses for those homeless of all ages, and those on low incomes this sum of money could have achieved.
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To add to the above in the early 2000’s Labour brought in a ‘Secret’ Tenancy Agreement for Councils who pay private landlords to house those determined to be ‘asylum seekers’. Links are below:
http://www.here4u.heliohost.org/articles/uk_asylum_lies.html (middle of the page)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070301000000*/http://www.bnp.org.uk/pdf_files/BNP-Asylum.zip
The farse is that these ‘left wing’ councils don’t build new houses, which would at least bring economic activity and alleviate the housing shortage, but instead pay rent to private landlords! I briefly spoke to a landlord who provides rented accommodation to a local authority and he said that in some circumstances he does not need to pay to refurbish the property as the council will pay it for him! Taxpayers money to refurbish private landlords properties!
It does not go beyond the realms of possibility that there are a number of wealthy property owners laughing to the bank…
Well Matt if we knew the truth in all our town halls it would curdle milk. And never forget all Town halls are left wing now regardless of which party holds the majority. Its all just a matter of degree
And it might also surprise us that the majority of landlords are of foreign extraction.
Homes under the Hammer tries to only show British ,English ones. But even they cannot hide the weight of the truth.
How do these foreigners snatch up so much . Well paying taxes is not a priority for them, and those that do pay have far higher thresholds before paying. Getting extra grants towards paying for their relatives back home, who are probably here claiming benefits anyway . thus their bank balances allows them to by up our housing stock . One day soon we ( the indigenous) will own nowt.
Somebody was telling me yesterday about a radio phone in they had listened to, where a British woman was living with her mother in a car, and a lucky chap from the ”jungle” in Calais had just arrived here and was given a council flat. Housing benefit ensured he did not need to have a job to pay his rent. He also received income support to pay bills and get food etc. When the jammie newcomer from the” jungle” in Calais was asked how he felt about the woman living with her mother in a car, his response was an indifferent ”everyone in the UK is alright.”
Free accomadation via social housing and housing benefit is an invitation to the world. It is at the heart of the problem because it sends out the incentive that as long as you get here, you’ll have a roof over your head…and that means you don’t need employment because when you’ve got the roof over you, then Housing benefit is obliged cover the costs…. then there’s income support.
If the newcomers have children, they are prioritised for a council flat. Then there is child benefit. It should also be noted that within social housing organisations you have many ethnic people with a hard Left and anti British mindset who are given the nod over British applicants. It’s basically like something from the Runnymede Trust.
Young Britons wellbeing and security are being sacrificed so Britain can help proliferate immigrant populations…literally paying for our own one-way ticket bus-ride to oblivion. Would these people do it for us ? No, but then they don’t even do much for each other…that’s why so many third world people are here. And hence this is why the liberals never question the fact that it’s always white countries who are expected to expiate and accommodate others, beneath their affected altruism lies the repressed belief that the immigrants are not capable of being anything other than dependents. And upon us and us alone, they are expected to depend.
Osbourne the posh boy wants more houses built,did,nt Thatcher reduce social housing by the right to buy which caused problems,we need mass deportation,25.000 Syrian refugees Cameron Lord Snooty is allowing in for starters,but if you count rest of there families you can times that by a minimum of 10,plus other migrants pouring in,where are the jobs?as usual under the Tories our Steel and few Mines are going,its a point of no return jobs in the UK,its finished the damage was done years back by Thatcher and continued ever since,statistics Goverments rely on and the political biased and those with nothing up top will fall for it,this once great country as never needed a foreign doctor/nurse,keep inflation low and wages invite more migrants,vote Tory the true haters of the British Indiginous/