Il consiglio riformista afferma che il programma di biblioteca gratuita per i rifugiati “non offre un buon rapporto qualità-prezzo”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/18/reform-run-lancashire-council-says-free-library-scheme-refugees-not-value-for-money
di birdinthebush74
9 commenti
Dont we want them to learn the language and culture?
Even aside from that, all library schemes are worthwhile and benefit everyone. I want to live in a society where more people read books.
Right wing idiocy knows no bounds. They complain about refugees sponging off the state, not getting into work etc., then they complain about schemes designed to help refugees get into work and call them a waste of money. And on top of that, in this case it doesn’t even cost the taxpayer anything in the first place.
I think what they like most is complaining about things.
“Integrate! Learn our language and our culture!”
Ok can I go to the place with the free books?
“NO! Free books aren’t value for money”
Gotta love reform….
I thought we wanted them to integrate into our society?
Sadly, performative cruelty against immigrants wins votes in Britain today.
If Farage announced public floggings of immigrants in town squares, a worryingly large percentage of our neighbours would applaud.
Farage and Reform are a symptom of a deeper problem in British society.
The scheme is free. It’s nothing more than nakedly racist politics.
Of course it doesn’t deliver value for money, it’s a library not a bookshop, the whole point is that it’s a service.
Look I know the whole point of this action is to be shitty to vulnerable people but I hate this constant stream of services having to work within the framework of financial return rather than social return
So something that doesn’t cost the council anything, but helps people isn’t value for money
>Salter said that although subscribing to the libraries scheme “does not have a cost” there was “an implied cost” as a result of “choosing to gear your offer around a particular set of service users, with dedicated time and resources for putting on events and focussing on refugees at the expense of wider service users”. He added: “In Lancashire we focus on the needs of our residents.”
So just straight up admit the point about costs is a lie but that you just don’t want refugees to be able to access a service out of spite.
They’re doing this a lot lately and don’t quite seem able to understand why it might even look bad. I know our standards for politicians are low but just lying from the outset about things that are incredibly easy to look up and disprove, purely because it builds into a narrative you want to set that does not match reality, really is not a good way to go about things.