The bill for refugees, asylum seekers and/ or “people seeking sanctuary” (as the Left is now trying to rename them) gets higher every day. On my own Substack I have calculated over £700 million in taxpayer funding going towards asylum and migration charities across the last five years. There are, of course, the bills for migrant hotels too.
What people may be more surprised to know is that universities are being awarded huge sums for research about asylum seekers/ otherwise. Numerous abstracts are packed with ideologically loaded statements – “the hostile environment”, “postcolonial sexual identity” – presented as neutral and factual, showing you exactly what stance so-called academics are likely to take (a leftist one, as well as being complete gobbledygook). To show you what I mean, I’ve compiled 10 examples below – two have finished and the rest are all underway. The total for these is £9,810,244.
