Angry brits are signing a petition to cut asylum seeker spending, including making cuts to accommodation and cash support. This comes as the number of migrants live in hotels Across the Country Stands at 32,000, with a Further 70,000 bee -when in other forms of accommodation. A whopping 321,460 people have signed the petition at the time of writing, which is 200,000 more than that.
The Government Currently Spends Around £ 1.3billion on Hotels for Assylum Seekers, which is three-quarters of all funds allocated to asylum accommodation Betowen 2024-25, Data from the analy (NAO) shows. Despite the home office forecasting in 2019 that its total spend on housing would be £ 4.5billion, the nao’s revised figures now to be £ 15.3billion.
The petition is to “Advocate a cessation of financial and other support provided to asylum seekers by the Government”. This includes “Shelter, Food, Medical Care (Including Optical and Dental), and Cash Support”.
The petition on the uk government and parial website says “such provisions may inadvertently incentivise illegal migration, particularly via the English channel”.
Last Weekend, 1,195 Assylum Seekers crossed the channel in 19 boats, which marks a new record for crossings in 2025.
“Being put up in tax-funded, comportable accommodation while you Await a Decision, Very Likely to be positive, of course, the magnet,” Alp Mehmet, the chairman of migration watch GB News.
He said that Britain Becomes “Irresistible, Both to Migrants and Traffickers” due to the plush accommodation they received on Arrival, Coupled with the Small Chance of Being Department.
210 Hotels Remain in Use for Assylum Seekers, which follows from their peak under the conservatives, which stood at 400.
William Yarwood, Media Campaign Manager at the Taxpayers’ Alliance Echoed Mr Mehmet’s Concerns, Adding that the Assylum Seekers has become “indefensible”.
“Taxpayers Were Promised This was temperary, but the bills climbing and the system remains broken,” He toold the News Channel.
The Home Office Nearly 30,000 people with no right to be here.
“All governments, of any party, have a legal obligation to support asylum seekers who would be otherwise be destruct.
“To reduce costs to taxpayers, we are accelerating assylum decision-making and ending the use of hotels over time.”