How can i claim asylum?

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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Dunno, go and ask my ex-footie team mate whose parents were both killed in a civil war, he ended up getting racially abused in pretty much every game we played and finally quit playing football when he was chased around the field by the opposition's goalkeeper who was waving a hammer and threatening to kill him. We had to form a 6-man wall around him to prevent the attack.

    He worked full time and didn't claim any benefits.

    You don't hear about those cases in the tabloids.
  • dreamlx10
    dreamlx10 Posts: 235
    Is there any chance of me fleeing to Tuscany and asking for Asylum ? On top of that what about a nice Tuscan farmhouse an interpreter and free money !
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    dreamlx10 wrote:
    Is there any chance of me fleeing to Tuscany and asking for Asylum ? On top of that what about a nice Tuscan farmhouse an interpreter and free money !

    The Alps would be better - skiing in winter, cycling in spring, summer and autumn, swimming in summer.
  • tebbit
    tebbit Posts: 604
    +1 for the Alps, knowing my luck they'd probably grant me asylum in Bridlington
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    johnfinch wrote:

    You don't hear about those cases in the tabloids.

    Sounds like a normal home game at Millwall.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    How can you be an unemployed bus conductor? You're either unemployed or you're a bus conductor. You can't be both.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    afx237vi wrote:
    How can you be an unemployed bus conductor? You're either unemployed or you're a bus conductor. You can't be both.

    If you were once a bus conductor who has the relevant qualifications/experience for being a bus conductor.
  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    afx237vi wrote:
    How can you be an unemployed bus conductor? You're either unemployed or you're a bus conductor. You can't be both.

    If you were once a bus conductor who has the relevant qualifications/experience for being a bus conductor.

    bus conductor.... ? when was this
    1971?
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    afx237vi wrote:
    How can you be an unemployed bus conductor? You're either unemployed or you're a bus conductor. You can't be both.

    If you were once a bus conductor who has the relevant qualifications/experience for being a bus conductor.

    Is there a bus conductor qualification you can get, then? Unemployed doctor, or electrician, or teacher I can understand... maybe the bloke owns a box set of On The Buses. Poor sod.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    afx237vi wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    How can you be an unemployed bus conductor? You're either unemployed or you're a bus conductor. You can't be both.

    If you were once a bus conductor who has the relevant qualifications/experience for being a bus conductor.

    Is there a bus conductor qualification you can get, then? Unemployed doctor, or electrician, or teacher I can understand... maybe the bloke owns a box set of On The Buses. Poor sod.

    *shrugs*

    I'm not getting involved in any job/qualifaction snobbery.

    Thin ice on this forum!
  • rapid_uphill
    rapid_uphill Posts: 841
    He cant afford to be a bus conductor, his rent is £8000 a month.
  • fast as fupp
    fast as fupp Posts: 2,277
    dreamlx10 wrote:
    Is there any chance of me fleeing to Tuscany and asking for Asylum ? On top of that what about a nice Tuscan farmhouse an interpreter and free money !

    you dont need 'to flee' to tuscanny- its part of the e.u.- you can go there any time you want :shock:
    'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Kensal Rise isn't a poor neighbourhood by any stretch of the imagination. The high road has plenty of shops and buses running up and down it & I went to the High School. Two Primary Schools, one of which is for special needs kids.

    April next year the new housing benefit regs come in & they will fall into rent arrears & will be evicted. They will then be back to a neighbourhood where the £400 a week limit will keep them housed.
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    My brother did some electical work in a new house in Cardiff.

    Two Somali families had been put next door to each other, and...

    They had smashed through the inner walls, without the Councils knowledge, and the two families were living in one room...of two 3 bedrooom houses.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Splottboy wrote:
    My brother did some electical work in a new house in Cardiff.

    Two Somali families had been put next door to each other, and...

    They had smashed through the inner walls, without the Councils knowledge, and the two families were living in one room...of two 3 bedrooom houses.


    It wasnt all good for them though....they were in Wales :D
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  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Yep, 2nd largest Somali population outside of Somalia.

    One family in the Docks on £1,000 a week, plus the income from being "on the game". FACT.

    New York: Get made redundant amd its, $400 per week for 99 weeks.
    Florida: No income Tax, just business and property tax.

    We live in a Strange, Strange World.
  • dreamlx10
    dreamlx10 Posts: 235
    tuscanny

    I wasn't going there I was going to Tuscany !
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    I know of a Somali family who also lived in one room.

    This because they had ripped up all the floorboards in the house and use them as fire wood. Although they had a fully functioning kitchen they were cooking everything on an open fire in the living room.

    They were rehoused of course and it cost tens of thousands to put the house right.
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    Quick folks, get your Daily Mail and pitch forks! :D
  • I actually saw this story on the front of the Daily Mail (my mother-in-law buys The Mail). They described the location of the house as, "...close to Kensington, an area frequented by the late Princess Diana" :roll:
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  • rapid_uphill
    rapid_uphill Posts: 841
    I have no problem with immigrants claiming asylum. i just dont understand how all these foreigners manage to milk our benefits system yet i cant and i have lived here all my life.
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    I have no problem with immigrants claiming asylum. i just dont understand how all these foreigners manage to milk our benefits system yet i cant and i have lived here all my life.

    This is one exceptional case. If the council own the house then the value of it, and the rent that would be paid is irrelevant isn't it.

    Immigrants/asylum seekers don't get precedence over anyone else, in fact studies have shown they're treated worse, not better, than UK citizens when it comes to social housing and benefits.

    Do you know how much an asylum seeker receives in cash? (Which they only need because they're banned from working while they're applying for asylum)
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/0 ... t-refugees

    I wouldn't call £35 a week "milking the system". :roll:
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  • rapid_uphill
    rapid_uphill Posts: 841
    Haha I should have known bails87 would chip in with his rantings.
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Haha I should have known bails87 would chip in with his rantings.
    Eh?

    What rantings?

    Are you confusing facts for ranting? :lol:
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • rapid_uphill
    rapid_uphill Posts: 841
    Please bails87 im sorry if i upset you. :cry:
  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    There are many cases like this {not just immigrants} the councils don`t own the houses they just pay the huge rent. I don`t see how anyone could argue it is fair or sensible for people on benefits to get better houses than they could ever afford if they had a job.
    Smarter than the average bear.
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Please bails87 im sorry if i upset you. :cry:

    Spent a week as a Somali immigrant's taxpayer funded masseur and NHS provided Bentley valeter and I might just forgive you. :wink:
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • tebbit
    tebbit Posts: 604
    In one of the broadsheets, it mentioned that the landlord was an "associate" of the family, looks like a beneficial arrangement from both parties, he gets his house tennanted and they get a temporary luxury. As Stewie says they will be moved out, the landlord's insurance will cover any damage caused, and there will be damage, because the landlord will then claim against the insurance, and have the property refurbished. They've taken advantage of the way things are, some poor sod will probably suffer as a result of this and not the sods who should, namely the landlord who will benefit the most out of this, letting his void property to the council at a good rate and then letting the insurance company pick up the tab for the refurb, honest I didn't know they were going to wreck place :roll:
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    I told my dad I wanted to be a conductor, he tied me to the chimney stack. Boom boom. :lol:
    Tail end Charlie

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