Cash For Asylum seekers But Not Our Boys - -Daily Express
THE GOVERNMENT has handed out six times more cash to bogus Afghan asylum seekers than to our heroes wounded fighting the Taliban.
Shocking figures show £30million of taxpayers’ money has been squandered on food, shelter and legal aid for 2,500 refugees seeking asylum.
During the same period, the Government handed out just £5.3million under the controversial Armed Forces Compensation Scheme to 560 British soldiers wounded in Afghanistan.
Of the 2,500 Afghans who sought asylum, only 85 were genuine, meaning 2,415 bogus applicants received an average of £12,000 each. The average for wounded soldiers was just over £9,000.
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My Comment: The priorities of the U.K. government is (in my opinion) out of whack. But as I always tell my British friends .... this is the government that the British electorate voted for.
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