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Revelations about the state of Britain’s asylum and welfare system are the stuff of nightmares. Can it really get worse than discovering that more than one million non-British migrants are claiming Universal Credit at the expense of the British taxpayer? Spoiler alert, apparently it can! Because just when you thought this country couldn’t be made to look any more pathetic, we find out that thousands of Afghans were quietly flown into the UK under a secret government scheme, triggered by a catastrophic data breach caused by one of our own officials. Yes, really.
A British bureaucrat accidentally leaked a classified spreadsheet containing the names of Afghan nationals linked to UK forces. Not a few names. Thousands. And what followed was a panic-stricken scramble to avoid bloodshed and embarrassment. Yet instead of owning the error publicly and dealing with it transparently, the Government did what it does best: slapped on a super-injunction, buried the story, and funnelled tens of millions of pounds into flying people into the UK under the radar.
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The public knew nothing. Parliament knew nothing. The official final cost of this quiet disaster is likely to be in the region of ￡7billion. All drawn from Treasury reserve funds, of course, because heaven forbid the bill touch the departments actually responsible for the mess.
Operation “Rubific”, a ludicrous name if there ever was one, saw thousands of Afghans resettled in British towns with no debate, no scrutiny, and no mention in the official records. It took two years and a change of government for the press to even be allowed to report it, thanks to an unprecedented gag order so sweeping that it effectively criminalised anyone who knew about the breach from speaking a word.
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And what did the subsequent review find? That the threat to life had been wildly overstated. That the scale of the response was “disproportionate.” That many of those flown in weren’t even necessarily at risk. But by then, more than 16,000 people had already been relocated to Britain - some reportedly with extended families in tow.
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One individual, now living comfortably in the UK, even threatened to blackmail the government with the very list he was on. This isn’t compassion. It’s state-sponsored chaos.
And it's chaos we’re funding twice. Once through billions spent on covert relocation operations, and again in the form of welfare cheques issued to people who’ve contributed absolutely nothing to this country. Because, of course, they’re eligible too.
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New figures show that 1.26 million non-UK citizens are currently claiming Universal Credit. That’s nearly one in six of all claimants. Worse still, 3.6 million people receiving the benefit are under no obligation to work at all. They’ve effectively been written off as economically inactive, many of them for life.
Clearly Britain has become the benefits office of the world.
For years, we’ve been told that mass migration is not only inevitable but economically essential. That migrants prop up the NHS, run care homes, and start businesses. But the numbers increasingly tell a different story. We’re importing more dependents than contributors, and instead of encouraging independence, our system rewards idleness and anonymity.
Let’s be honest: no country with a welfare state as generous and as easily exploited as Britain’s can afford open borders. Not unless we want to bankrupt ourselves into irrelevance.
We need a reset, not another empty slogan, but an actual rethinking of the entire model.
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It starts with scrapping our asylum system and replacing it with something fit for the modern world. What we have now is a bloated, creaking framework of outdated conventions, legal loopholes, and endless appeals. It serves everyone except the British public. No more open-ended resettlement schemes.
No more “safe and legal routes” that never end. No more guilt-tripping the public into supporting policies that threaten their own security. And no more welfare for non-citizens. Full stop. If you’re not British, you shouldn’t be living off the British taxpayer. That’s just common sense.
Other nations have chosen a different path. Some have drawn clear lines, prioritised cultural and economic cohesion, and refused to turn themselves into humanitarian vending machines. They don’t get lectured for it. They aren’t ostracised from international summits or condemned as xenophobic outliers. In fact, most are doing quite well.
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This is not about lacking heart. It’s about having a spine. We cannot keep pretending that Britain can carry the world on its shoulders while millions here face housing shortages, NHS waiting lists, and crumbling public services. The fantasy must end.
Scrap the asylum system, slash foreign aid, and end welfare entitlements for non-citizens. This is the only way to restore fairness, accountability and a sense of proportion to a country that’s been run on autopilot for too long.
Because if we don’t make the hard decisions now, the people will eventually make them for us. And history shows they won’t be nearly as polite.
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