Legal aid should not fund asylum legal action.

Mrwong

Mrwong

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Look at the amount of money spent solely on is staggering.

Personally, legal aid should not cover any asylum claims.

The money spent in this area should be diverted to access other areas of legal help for citizens of the country.

If charities complaint about funding maybe they should pay for the asylums legal bills.

Or the UN or other global institute should fund it.

What are you views.
 
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Is the thread a pre-emptive strike against Hong Kongers applying for asylum (in the UK)? :)
 
How much is being spent on asylum legal action and as a percentage overall? You haven't really given much to go on.
 
mburn_83 said:
Or better yet - let the creepy virtue signallers put them up and be fully responsible for them?
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Isn't that point of being a country? Insofar that we are putting them up?

Anyway, if the 'right channels' weren't obtuse in the first place, maybe they wouldn't risk paying criminals to fling them across the busiest sea lane in the world.

All of this is a pittance compared to the migration that's about to occur due to inhospitable conditions and food scarcity. If folk don't want refugees, migrants or whatever, maybe it's time to stop helping them to destroy their countries and start funding measures for self-sufficiency, else we're merely incentivising the journey. I suppose this is one of those moments where I, an unrepentant atheist, laments the loss of Christian charity and the moral obligation to help others in need.
 
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Mrwong said:
The money spent in this area should be diverted to access other areas of legal help for citizens of the country.
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Not sure we should be wasting money on our own scroats either, if people commit crime and cant afford a solicitor, thats tough luck?

Furnish us with the figures so we can fully evaluate your thread.
 
Yaayuh! said:
How much is being spent on asylum legal action and as a percentage overall? You haven't really given much to go on.
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In 2018/19 the criminal legal aid budget in England and Wales was 879 million British pounds, compared with 891 million pounds in the previous year. In the provided time period, criminal legal aid peaked in 2007/08 at just over 1.2 billion pounds, but between 2010/11 and 2015/16 it was cut by 314 million pounds. Civil legal aid has also been cut in the same time period, after peaking at 1 billion pounds in 2010/11, it fell to just 600 million pounds by 2015/16.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics...ding-in-england-and-wales/#statisticContainer

Immigration claims make up about 6% of Civil legal aid, approx £36 million a year.

Pocket change when the government has spend nearly 1 billion on PPE that never materialised.
 
Mrwong said:
Look at the amount of money spent solely on is staggering.

Personally, legal aid should not cover any asylum claims.

The money spent in this area should be diverted to access other areas of legal help for citizens of the country.

If charities complaint about funding maybe they should pay for the asylums legal bills.

Or the UN or other global institute should find it.

What are you views.
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Are you referring to the economic migrants coming across the channel or actual real asylum seekers?
 
StriderX said:
Isn't that point of being a country? Insofar that we are putting them up?

Anyway, if the 'right channels' weren't obtuse in the first place, maybe they wouldn't risk paying criminals to fling them across the busiest sea lane in the world.
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I don't think they should be able to access anything.
This country already had an increasing homeless count, struggling to build homes.

If charities want to help let them spend the money funding these claims. This country has enough problems of it own..
 
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