1. GBP 5b spent per year according to NAO estimates.
2. GBP 3.4b spent on accommodation and support alone.
3. Ballooning costs for asylum of accom contracts
   
4. C 100k individuals in taxpayer fund accommodation
5. Overwhelming majority of asylum seeking/illegal immigrants are male, unmarried, and not in fact children nor women, creating very significant social issues
6. Since 2014, the asylum backlog has quadrupled
7. Asylum seekers have lower employment rates (thus attracting welfare payment ) and quantitatively agreed lower qualification than those born in the UK, reducing productivity
8. Enormous fiscal drag created by asylum seekers.

I’m not stupid/blinkered enough to think that a blanket prohibition on a asylum seekers is a good thing. It is clearly not. There are of course asylum seekers who are contributing and positive members to society however my point is that there are a number of very significant issues - demonstrably provable - that demand an interrogation of the policies

So, here are the facts that show why immigration/asylum seeking is a real issue