Taxpayers are funding the repatriation of hundreds of homeless Eastern European immigrants who have been living on the streets. Hundreds of thousands of pounds is being spent annually on travel costs for the immigrants, mainly Polish, who have been unable to find work in Britain and have no access to benefits. Local authorities and charities are using government grants to fund one-way bus and air tickets, with one London council spending £100,000 on the scheme in the past year alone. The strategy is to be widened this week in response to the recession, which has left increasing numbers in need of help.
Taxpayers are funding the repatriation of hundreds of homeless Eastern European immigrants who have been living on the streets.
Hundreds of thousands of pounds is being spent annually on travel costs for the immigrants, mainly Polish, who have been unable to find work in Britain and have no access to benefits.
Local authorities and charities are using government grants to fund one-way bus and air tickets, with one London council spending £100,000 on the scheme in the past year alone.
The strategy is to be widened this week in response to the recession, which has left increasing numbers in need of help.
The comments under the article do show some humanity. I'll back this one:
Taxpayer foots bill as homeless Polish workers are repatriated - Times Online
Please do not forget, that vast majority of Polish guys very hard working and living in UK also pay taxes to UK government. And all this money spent on helping homeless Poles is a small fraction of those taxes. It is nice to get cheap labour and get taxes from those Polish guys, right?Krzysztof, Warsaw, Poland
Please do not forget, that vast majority of Polish guys very hard working and living in UK also pay taxes to UK government. And all this money spent on helping homeless Poles is a small fraction of those taxes. It is nice to get cheap labour and get taxes from those Polish guys, right?
Krzysztof, Warsaw, Poland
But I can't help quoting this one from someone writing in defence of immigrants:
There is a key difference between coming to the UK to work and being of the white underclass born into the benefits system and to a teenage single parent aged 13.
Europe may be doomed, but Britain is fucked.
