To Quentin Letts and others who think that the desperate human beings crossing the Channel are coming here for benefits, a reminder.
Asylum seekers in the UK receive on average just £5.66 - a day.
Asylum seekers in the UK receive on average just £5.66 - a day.
For those who think "they all want to come here because we are a soft touch" - a reminder.
The UK - disgracefully - is home to just 1% of the estimated 26.4 million refugees, forcibly displaced by war and other events across the globe.
The UK - disgracefully - is home to just 1% of the estimated 26.4 million refugees, forcibly displaced by war and other events across the globe.
And finally for those who think France takes fewer refugees than us and that they all pass through there to come here.... you're wrong. France takes considerably more than we do as does Germany
Letts has had a very comfortable, very privileged, very safe life. It's a pity he's not taken a couple of moments out from his journalism to look up a few facts.
https://twitter.com/ImIncorrigible/status/1463785565099331584
He comes out with the "soft touch" thing as well. Which is demonstrably false.
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