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UK Home Office is spending billions a YEAR to house rescued Afghans and asylum seekers in hotels
twitter ^ | Feb 3 | Mark Easton

Posted on 02/03/2022 6:37:58 AM PST by RandFan

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The @ukhomeoffice is NOT spending £1.2m a day on hotel rooms for rescued Afghans and asylum seekers, a departmental correction reveals.

It is actually £4.7m a day. Or £1.7 billion a year.

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That's about 2.5 billion dollars on hotels !!
1 posted on 02/03/2022 6:37:58 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Hahaha, those dumb brits! We would never do something like that here in the USA!!


2 posted on 02/03/2022 6:40:34 AM PST by Scarlett156 (Someone with "comedian" on his social media profile is invariably a self-hating sadistic loser.)
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To: RandFan

This is sort of like pulling out lions that fell into a pit. It’s a feel-good kind of thing...until the lions start circling you with hungry eyes.


3 posted on 02/03/2022 6:42:50 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: RandFan

This is the hotel industry bailout that couldn’t pass congress.


4 posted on 02/03/2022 6:43:41 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: Scarlett156

Remember when we offered refuge to refugees until they could return to country?

These aren’t refugees.


5 posted on 02/03/2022 6:46:11 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: RandFan

How much of that is happening in the USA too, but we just don’t hear about it?


6 posted on 02/03/2022 7:31:57 AM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: RandFan

” UK Home Office is spending billions a YEAR to house rescued Afghans and asylum seekers in hotels”

US is spending billions a YEAR to house rescued Afghans and asylum seekers in hotels

There, fixed it


7 posted on 02/03/2022 7:37:12 AM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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