Revisione urgente ordinata in costi di taxi in cerca di asilo – BBC News

“One asylum seeker told the BBC he had taken a 250-mile journey to visit a GP, with the driver telling him the cost to the Home Office was £600.”

I think the government needs to be more transparent with regards to ALL the hidden costs of housing illegal immigrants so they can be held to account.

The article seems to suggest that the home office doesn’t keep tab on taxi fairs, which is shameful considering the number of illegal migrants & high cost of your typical taxi fare.

More money down the drain.

This asylum seeker crisis feels like trickle truth. At first the narrative that these were genuine refugees who had no legal routes to claim asylum in the UK besides boat crossings, and they weren’t much of a burden in the grand scheme of things. Now it’s just open knowledge that these are working age men, illegally working and getting better access to housing and public services than many UK citizens.

I think there are going to be more and more of the stories that paint an increasingly worse picture of the situation

It’s not just asylum seekers. Although I know that’s the flavour of the month so it makes the headlines.

There is a massive issue in general with Taxi usage. Another case is in regard to SEND students going to specialised schools. Due to the lack of local schools councils are having to pay a lot of money for transport students long distances. The NHS also has high costs in relation to this as well.

**Sources:**

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgge3d92rvo](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgge3d92rvo)
**More than £25m was spent on school taxis by Cambridgeshire County Council in the last 12 months – an increase of almost £8m in the space of only two years.**

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68665303](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68665303)
**Spending is set to hit £1.4bn across local authorities in England in 2023-24, a 95% rise from £728m in 2018-19.**

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15115652](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15115652)
**More than £30m has been spent on taxis for NHS patients since 2008 because of a shortage of official non-emergency transport, the BBC has learned.**

*”One asylum seeker told the BBC he had taken a 250-mile journey to visit a GP, with the driver telling him the cost to the Home Office was £600″*

So basically all the tax I paid last month has been wasted on this. I can’t afford to spend £600 on a taxi ride, yet we are handing them out to people that have contributed nothing.

Not only me, but the government can’t afford this either… they are borrowing more and are planning on putting taxes up again, and it still won’t be enough.

Taxi drivers: less immigrants to drive Ubers and steal my job

Home office cuts contracts for driving asylum seekers.

Taxi drivers: wait, not like that

If we just taxed the billionaires and the corporations we could buy each illegal migrant a personal chauffeur.

Most of the xenophobes voted for the party that created this system.

Have they apologised?

As a civil servant, the hoops I have to jump through to claim a £5 bus trip when visiting a customer…meanwhile, the gov don’t even keep records of how much they are spending on taxis and transport?

Is this a joke?