Stevo 666
Veteran
I'm not sure that's true. They are definitely not popular with a certain type of person who "thinks they should go back to where they came from. The country's full innit".
Any evidence for this?
Again, making stuff up because it's what you think - doesn't work.
https://togetherwithrefugees.org.uk/welcoming-growth-press-release/#:~:text=The net benefit to the,within the current asylum system.
Yes, you could argue that this study is likely to be biased towards refugees, but every study that has looked at refugees / asylum seekers has fully debunked the "they came here for benefits" myth propagated by Farage, Robinson, Daily Mail et al.
You only have to apply a small modicum of thought to realise that someone spending the remainder of their family savings and travelling for thousands of miles under dangerous conditions with risk of death, is more likely to want to learn skills / get work to establish themselves in order to improve things for themselves and their family. Many refugees are skilled - spending money on training / retraining / English skills has a far higher return on investment than effectively imprisoning people for 6 months to a year whilst giving them handouts.
A quick google around asylum seekers strain oocal councils or similar will show what you need to know, but maybe don't want to know. Here are a couple of examples:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-66084878
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politic...eker-bill-leaves-tory-council-in-17m-deficit/
As for your last post, another quick google will show that the pay level at which someone becomes a net contributor to the exchequer is around £50k pa. Do you really think that most of these people are going to walk into jobs that make them higher rate tax payers?
And as for you point about making the effort to get here, if you apply a modicum of thought you might ask yourself why they didn't stop in one of the lies multiple safe countries that they passed through on the way? If their priority really is safety and security then they would have done that, but most have made a choice, likely because they think we are a soft touch. Sorry, but beggars can't be choosers.