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This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Norman Dunn on 30/4/2025, 4:32 pm

This is information from 2023, so it will be even worse today in 2025.

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The Government just rejected a petition which called on them to make sure people who enter the UK illegally are not eligible for legal aid.

In their response to the petition, which secured 12,242 signatures, an official response said: “The Government has no current plans to change how legal aid eligibility is determined. The nationality of an individual, their immigration status, or the way in which someone entered the UK, does not have any bearing on their ability to access legal aid.”

This means that tens of thousands of illegal migrants will be able to access legal aid, including those coming in order to abuse our asylum system paying people smugglers to travel here without permission from safe countries such as France.

The effect can only be to hugely encourage illegal asylum abuse – and with taxpayer money.

In another parliamentary answer, the government said (of those illegal entrants who are trying to fight off attempts to send them to Rwanda): ‘Funding for legal aid is on a demand led basis” (Question by Daniel Kawczynski (Con) (Shrewsbury and Atcham): 19599 – June 2022).

So effectively open-ended / unlimited legal advice (funded by the hard-press taxpayer), including for those breaking into the UK. This in the midst of mounting asylum abuse, age fraud and public safety issues created by the inability and unwillingness of authorities to properly check those arriving on unauthorised dinghies and lorries.

Remember that more than 130,000 people have come to the UK illegally by air, road or sea since the start of 2018 (not including many thousands who overstay their visas).

For further context, an average of just under £35 million per year of taxpayer money is spent on legal aid for asylum seekers in the past decade.

This in addition to an average of £4 million per year on non-asylum claims since 2013. In total £585 million of taxpayer money has been spent on immigration legal aid claims since 2009, including £134 million on asylum legal aid since the small boats crisis began in 2018.

Re: This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Sheila on 30/4/2025, 5:50 pm, in reply to "This is absolutely disgraceful"

Norman, I believe Keir Starmer was the barrister who represented five of them.

Re: This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Liz Dance on 30/4/2025, 6:32 pm, in reply to "This is absolutely disgraceful"

Legal Aid is an absolute disgrace more so when it concerns illegal migrants.

I have said it before and I say it again, the Government should have a panel of people, not necessarily Judges, who work solely on processing asylum cases, the applicant should be allowed to present his/her case, the Panel should be able to consider the applicant’s case and then give a decision, if the applicant’s case is deemed that asylum is not granted then immediate deportation should be swiftly carried out, if the applicant wishes to challenge the decision that is fine but the challenge can only be started once the applicant has left the UK and then at the cost to the applicant, harsh I don’t think so just fair, we shouldn’t have to pay left wing lawyers millions of pounds to fight asylum claims.

Re: This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Norman Dunn on 30/4/2025, 7:31 pm, in reply to "Re: This is absolutely disgraceful"

When INVADERS come here without passports they should be deported within a day or two.

We should not do anything to help them.
When we process them and allow them to stay they laugh at how soft we are.None of them want to be English & they have been heard saying 'We intend to take over this country'.

They just make up a cocknbull story, give a new name & birth date and have now escaping justice from the law in their home countries.
Some are rapists, murderers, drug dealers, pickpockets, etc, etc & we have helped them escape.
Recent statistics on who is committing most crimes here nowadays said Albanian & Middle east people.

Re: This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Mac Cummings on 30/4/2025, 8:11 pm, in reply to "This is absolutely disgraceful"

It makes my blood boil.
Take away the perks. No Housing. No Money. Nice stockade somewhere and the numbers will soon reduce while we get to work on those who have already sliped thet net or met one of our "nice but nice" judges who lets them stay on some pathetic pretence.
Did you also read about that trans Judge, Victoria Something who is actally a bloke. the mind boggles.

Re: This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Stan Wears on 30/4/2025, 9:58 pm, in reply to "Re: This is absolutely disgraceful"

This country has been taken from us. Only one traitor to blame. Everyday we are hit with penalties for breathing while Starmers friends (illegal immigrants) get the cream robbed from us..I predict one civil uproar soon. It's getting out of hand.

Re: This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Ray on 30/4/2025, 10:26 pm, in reply to "Re: This is absolutely disgraceful"

Blair is the real culprit

Re: This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Sheila on 1/5/2025, 7:49 am, in reply to "Re: This is absolutely disgraceful"

Ray, 100% people have short memories. He invited the rest of the world to live here. He is a globalist and he doesn’t believe in borders.

Re: This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Liz Dance on 1/5/2025, 8:15 am, in reply to "Re: This is absolutely disgraceful"

Tony Blair’s is the cause of so many problems in this country, I never liked the man, after John Smith passed away the Labour Party started to hold elections for a new Leader, I seem to recall apart from TB I think Margaret Beckett stood, there was one other candidate, TB always had a horrible grin on his face whenever the hustings were shown on TV.

Such a pity John Smith died at such an early age, who knows what might have happened, we probably would never have had the Iraq war that TB started, we probably would not be having this mass illegal and legal immigration, maybe I am looking through rise tinted spectacles but, I do think the country would be better if TB was never the PM, such an odious man he brings new meaning to that word.

Re: This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Sheila on 1/5/2025, 9:09 am, in reply to "Re: This is absolutely disgraceful"

Liz, he destroyed so much that was good and put in its place Judges who seem to be above parliament now. “The Supreme Court” his idea. Not needed. Of course he had to get rid of the Law Lords to do it. Then the destroyer of all, his signing into our laws , The Human Rights act. Twisted by Human Rights lawyers who are paid by us, the tax payers. He is now one of Stammers advisors.

Re: This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Jackie W on 1/5/2025, 10:04 am, in reply to "Re: This is absolutely disgraceful"

I actually can’t bear to watch him or hear a word he has to say. He seems to contradict things he’s said in the past and doesn’t seem to care for us.
When he kept saying ‘Change’ and ‘Smash the gangs’ etc it seemed like words to me, sound bites. It was meaningless.
I said when Covid happened, look what happens when the medical people are in charge. If the Armed forces were in charge we’d be fighting everybody! Now we have a human rights lawyer, really?

Re: This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Sheila on 1/5/2025, 12:48 pm, in reply to "Re: This is absolutely disgraceful"

Jackie W I agree. Then after practically destroying this country, he went off to advise countries with Dictators, who paid him hundreds of millions for his advice. Of course his wife still insists they are socialists . I could never forgive Cameron who got all MPs to applaud him as he left the House of Commons . Absolutely disgusting.

Re: This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Mac Hardy on 1/5/2025, 1:32 pm, in reply to "Re: This is absolutely disgraceful"

No money for senior citizens but plenty for illegals ! Scammer and the rest of his cronies are a total disgrace but exceedingly well paid, people who voted them in should feel thoroughly ashamed !

Re: This is absolutely disgraceful

Posted by Liz Dance on 1/5/2025, 1:38 pm, in reply to "Re: This is absolutely disgraceful"

When TB left the House of Commons someone should have done us all a favour and got rid of him not applauded him.

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