Thread by @MigrationWatch

In light of recent reporting on rates of fraud in the Somali community in Minnesota, a Thread with some statistics on Britain's Somali population from the 2021 census:

1) 72% of British Somalis live in state-funded social housing.

2) in London, it's even higher, with a whopping 74% of households headed by a Somali-born resident living in social housing. London property is some of the least affordable in the world - yet huge numbers of Somalis are subsidised to live here.

3) As of the 2021 census, there were 57,716 Somali led households in England and Wales. Of those, a staggering 26,371 (46%) live in London social housing alone.

4) With the average London social tenancy boasting an estimated implied subsidy of £11,168, this means the cost of housing Somalis in London social properties alone is an eyewatering £294,500,000 annually.

Credit to @PimlicoJournal
pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/the-social-h…

5) The Somali community struggles with underemployment and unemployment. As of the 2021 census, roughly half of working age Somalis were unemployed.

Credit to @juice8882

6) Housing tens of thousands of unemployed Somalis in expensive London social housing has led to crime and gang violence, including mobs hacking men to death with machetes

7) Members of London's Somali diaspora have complained the Metropolitan Police do not do enough to prevent young Somali men from stabbing each other

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/f…

Our broken migration system has failed everyone in this story - Somali migrants who are kept trapped in a cycle of dependency, underemployment and crime, British taxpayers who pay to support them, and London residents who face escalating violence.

Taxpayers must ask - why are we spending so much money to sustain this dysfunctional merry-go-round of human misery?