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@ HebrideanUltraTerfHecate
2025-05-01 17:05:28
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/01/labours-migrant-housing-deal-is-an-insult-to-left-behind-britain/
Keir Starmer’s promise to ‘smash the gangs’ that smuggle migrants into Britain has never looked so laughable.
If anything, Labour is subsidising the gangs’ business model. At the weekend, the Home Office launched a campaign encouraging private-sector landlords to offer their properties to English Channel migrants, with the British taxpayer picking up the tab for rent and utilities for five years. As part of the policy, Serco – one of three private contractors working for the government – is also offering landlords free property management and free council tax bills, as well as covering full repair and maintenance work.
Serco published a list of local authorities that would be covered by the scheme, although this was removed from the web following a social-media backlash (Labour outright denies it is a map of planned asylum accommodation). Predictably, the list includes some of the most deprived parts of Britain. Finding a home to rent will become more difficult for locals, given all the financial incentives to landlords to do a deal with the likes of Serco. All this is a recipe for increased social tensions.
The relationship in Britain between the state and its citizens could not be more broken. Labour is essentially using the hard-earned tax money of British workers, many of whom are renters just about getting by in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, to provide free, guaranteed accommodation to illegal migrants, many of whom are not even legitimate asylum seekers in the first place. The poorest parts of the country will bear the biggest burden.