With over 150,000 Brits offering their homes to Ukrainian refugees since a new scheme was launched, the government is drawing up plans to capitalise on British hospitality by looking to resettle other refugees in people’s homes.
Priti Patel is reportedly considering asking Brits to open their homes to refugees other than Ukrainians, including those from Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria, in an effort to cut costs associated with housing them in hotels.
Currently, the scheme offers homeowners a monthly payment of £350 for a commitment to house a Ukrainian family for a minimum of six months.
It is unclear how practical this scheme would be, however, as Afghan families are typically far larger than their British and Ukrainian counterparts. We predict this scheme will be a total and very costly disaster for the UK and for the long-suffering taxpayer!
The average Ukrainian family is comprised of 2.58 people, while the average Afghan family is comprised of 6.7 people.
A second major hurdle for the Home Office is that some major insurers seem to be reluctant to cover non-Ukrainian ‘refugees’, with MoreThan and LV not including non-Ukrainians in policy updates allowing homeowners to host refugees as “non-paying guests” without imposing an insurance premium.
The patriotic message from the British Democrats to the government is this:
House homeless Brits and veterans, not economic migrants!
This new government sponsored ‘house a refugee family’ scheme is probably less about saving money and more about the scarcity of 4 star hotel accomodation, due to the 20,000 Afghans airlifted into the UK after the fall of Kabul in August 2021, plus the 3,000+ ‘boat people’ that have arrived so far this year. Why did our government rush to virtue signal by taking in Ukrainians, when they should all have been encouraged to stay in the Eastern European countries bordering their own and then returning to Ukraine when it is safe to do so. Once refugees are in the UK they will never be returning, that’s the pull factor of an over-generous welfare system that favours foreigners above the native population.