Ending the Asylum scam!
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It was interesting to hear Reform UK unveil its new policy on the issue of “Asylum seekers” yesterday. The short summary is that this policy ENDS Asylum, at least for 5 years. And that has to be welcome first step.
We can all see that Britain’s asylum system has become a national farce. It is a multi-billion-pound revolving door that rewards illegal entry, drains public services, and leaves ordinary people feeling like strangers in their own country. It cannot continue.
Reform UK’s big idea is to suspend the entire system for a full parliamentary term. This is not extreme; it really is the first serious attempt in decades to put British citizens first and I welcome it, don’t you?
Under these proposals, new asylum claims would be rejected outright and existing applications voided. Roughly 90,000 people currently stuck in the appeals merry-go-round would be marked for deportation rather than another hearing. The asylum tribunals, which have turned basic border control into an endless legal industry, would be scrapped. Humanitarian protection and most resettlement schemes would end, with a narrow exception for Ukrainians already here. (I would also end that)
Grants issued in recent years would be reviewed, bringing hundreds of thousands of people into scope if they arrived illegally, overstayed, or come from countries that are now safe.
Now this all sounds to good to be true and we are entitled to ask the question HOW will Reform actually do this!
To make it workable, Reform says it would leave the European Convention on Human Rights, repeal the Human Rights Act, and disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention. These are not sacred texts; the truth is that they have been weaponised to block removals of failed claimants, foreign criminals, and those who simply do not qualify. Reform reckons that Diplomatic pressure—visa bans, flight restrictions, even tariffs—would force source countries to take their nationals back. I’m not quite so sure about that but it’s well worth a try. For the rare genuine edge cases, third-country deals would apply. The principle is simple: if you break into the country, you do not get to stay.
Naturally the political left will wail and call this cruel. It’s not. What is actually cruel is housing military-age men in hotels at taxpayer expense while British pensioners freeze, or watching small-boat arrivals dominate the system while genuine refugees wait years.
Farage is also right to call this a national security emergency. The British public knows the current arrangements have utterly failed. Suspending the asylum scam for five years, detaining and removing those with no right to be here, and restoring the basic idea that borders matter is not radical. It’s essential!
I am not interested in Purity political tests as to whether this is more or less than what Restore would do because being pragmatic only Reform will have even the sniff of implementing it.
It is a muscular response to a fundamental problem and I don’t doubt how difficult it will be to implement but at least there is a real vision.
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