The Conservative controlled Kent County council gives 900 teenage ‘asylum seekers’ £25 pocket money per week to “teach them how to use British currency.”
This same Tory council lost £50 million in the Icelandic bank disaster which still has not been reclaimed, but this has not stopped them from handing out yet more of their taxpayers’ money.
The handouts to the teenage ‘asylum seekers’ are done every Friday night, with the Tories justifying the unprecedented waste by saying that it teaches the “teenagers to shop for food and live on a budget.”
In reality, the bogus asylum seekers are already fed and housed free at a centre also paid for by the Kent County Council.
The ‘asylum seekers’ are all aged under 18 and most come from Afghanistan or Iraq. All of them have crossed dozens of safe countries to reach Britain and have therefore broken all international conventions and laws on asylum. None even have the right to be here in the first place.
The only reason why Britain is a magnet for these Third World scroungers is because of the insane benefits policies pursued by the Labour Government — and, as the Kent County Council example proves, the Tories.
According to reports, an anonymous source at the Kent centre where the ‘asylum seekers’ live, said that the “asylum seekers can’t wait to get their cash and go out and spend it on things like cigarettes.”
“If that’s learning to use our currency they’re getting very good at it.”
In their official response, Kent County Council assured their taxpayers that they claim all the money back from the Home Office. Taxpayers across the country are, we are sure, delighted to hear that news.
According to Kent County Council’s official statement, they are a “gateway authority to Europe. Young people depend on us for support and they need to be taught to lead independent lives.”
It said the weekly “subsistence allowance” helped young ‘asylum seekers’ to use British currency, budget and shop for food.
The weekly allowance helps, the council added, with the “purchase of travel, fruit and additional snacks and clothing.”
“We help newly arrived asylum-seeking young people to live safely and responsibly in the community. This means, for example, that they are given money so they can learn to use our currency to budget, to shop for food and then to cook safely.”
* At £25 each per week, the 900 asylum-seeking children cost taxpayers a cool £90,000 every month.
* Meanwhile, in Birmingham, another £2.4 million has been set aside to fund a new team called the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) dedicated to the “fight against modern-day slave traders who exploit migrant workers in the West Midlands.”
The two-year funding package will also pay for the “education of migrant workers, provide information about their entitlements and provide services for their children.”
