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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:39 am ] |
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Asylum seekers run up £2,500 taxi bill... even though the bus fare costs £1.80 23rd April 2011 Asylum seekers are being ferried to and from court hearings by a private taxi company costing the taxpayer thousands of pounds - even though the local bus does the trip for £1.80. Each five-mile trip from the train station to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Centre in Newport, Gwent costs £8.70 in a cab. Around £2,500 a month is being spent to bring migrants to Columbus House - where applications to become British citizens are heard. It is paid by the Tribunals Service to a private taxi company. Campaign groups have criticised yet another wasteful Government scheme. Matthew Sinclair, from The Taxpayers' Alliance, said: 'Across the public sector, costs need to be properly kept under control and the taxpayer's money spent on front line services and not on more convenient journeys for asylum seekers to tribunals. 'If there are more are more affordable options other than taxis, they should be used wherever possible as one more way of minimising the burden on hard-pressed families.' A spokesman for the Tribunals Service told The Sun: 'The service is provided for appellants as part of the conditions imposed by the local authority when planning permission was granted for the centre.' She added that they do not pay for train fares. Source; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ds-newsxml |
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:41 am ] |
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The government have a website on this topic; www.wepayanyfare.com |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:45 am ] |
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Its time we bought them all a one way ticket home..........and then lock the door behind them so they cant slither back in. |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:42 am ] |
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if you watch "UK border force" all they have to do is shout "me no gotee passportee" and they can stay here |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:48 pm ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: if you watch "UK border force" all they have to do is shout "me no gotee passportee" and they can stay here
If they no gotee passportee then they can swim to the nearest bit of land that aint british and live there...im fed up of them!! |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:53 pm ] |
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bloodnock wrote: wannabeeahack wrote: if you watch "UK border force" all they have to do is shout "me no gotee passportee" and they can stay here If they no gotee passportee then they can swim to the nearest bit of land that aint british and live there...im fed up of them!! nice sentiment but once here theres no way to know where they came from if they conceal/lose thier passports, so what do they do?.... |
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| Author: | gusmac [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:33 pm ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: nice sentiment but once here theres no way to know where they came from if they conceal/lose thier passports, so what do they do?.... Return on the same mode of transport to the same place they got on it. Let them deal with it. |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:21 pm ] |
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gusmac wrote: wannabeeahack wrote: nice sentiment but once here theres no way to know where they came from if they conceal/lose thier passports, so what do they do?.... Return on the same mode of transport to the same place they got on it. Let them deal with it. thats OK at a UK port of entry (airports/docks) and even better over in Calais where UK immigration can nick em before they touch UK soil, but there are millions already here mingling/working, what do you do with them when caught visa-less? |
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| Author: | STAD [ Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:21 pm ] |
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We use to run them all over the country from Leeds on account a few years back - regularly to the midlands ( Birmingham, Coventry, etc) but also to Dover a few times when they were shipping them out !! I got told by one they paid him 2k to leave the country..... He also said he'll be back ASAP 
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:50 am ] |
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STAD wrote: We use to run them all over the country from Leeds on account a few years back - regularly to the midlands ( Birmingham, Coventry, etc) but also to Dover a few times when they were shipping them out !! I got told by one they paid him 2k to leave the country..... He also said he'll be back ASAP
Aye...the 2K will be his return fare... 
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| Author: | toots [ Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:40 am ] |
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Quote: Each five-mile trip from the train station to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Centre in Newport, Gwent costs £8.70 in a cab.
Would it not be more cost effective to hold the hearings at the Asylum 
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