Labour's landlord scheme 'another example of Government putting illegal migrants before Britons', Dawn Neesom claims

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Labour has been accused of offering "another example of the Government putting illegal migrants before British people" after plans for a new landlord scheme were revealed.The Home Office has launched a recruitment drive for landlords to house asylum seekers following a surge in Channel migrant crossings.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00It's another example of the government putting illegal migrants

00:03coming across the Channel before British people.

00:06Indeed, and we've been talking about it and talking about it

00:09and talking about it, and it seems to never change.

00:12And the government, whichever government it is,

00:14seems to be digging itself into an ever-deeper hole

00:17through increasingly sort of stand-alone, erroneous policies such as this.

00:24But to be fair to the Labour government,

00:25they said they'd get them out of the hotels, and that's what they're doing.

00:28Right!

00:28But, look, as I've said numerous times, none of this is going to go away.

00:34None of these contentious policies are going to end

00:38until the problem of the boats ends.

00:42And what the government is doing with this is not addressing the boats

00:45and going after the criminal gangs, as I've said,

00:47is one small, yes, useful, but small part of the puzzle.

00:52There are a whole range of other things that have to be done

00:55if the boats, the flow's going to be stemmed.

00:56And what the government is doing is not addressing that.

01:00It is addressing some of the consequences of this flow.

01:04And those consequences are going to increase.

01:07They are going to become ever more expensive.

01:09And now it's eating into UK housing stock as well.

01:12So, until the government actually finds the courage, the will, the knowledge,

01:18and the plan to deal with the flow of the boats.

01:22Now, that's a large topic that we've talked about before,

01:25and no doubt we'll talk about again, sadly.

01:27But, so this, I think, you know, we're passing the cost on.

01:30It's worth saying that no matter what solution is applied,

01:34the cost, there's still going to be a cost implication.

01:37So, we're shifting cost around.

01:39It's generally overall increasing, but we're shifting it.

01:42Any solution is going to require funding.

01:45But the thing is, I want to see solutions applied

01:48which are going to address the problem

01:50so that, at one point, we can then stop having to fund it.

01:54I mean, this is, to be fair, Matthew,

01:56this is cheaper than keeping migrants in hotels.

01:59However, Circo, which is one of the three private contracts

02:01involved working for the Home Office,

02:03is offering landlords, private landlords,

02:05five-year guaranteed full-rent deals to house asylum seekers.

02:09Now, if I was a landlord, I'd be going,

02:11well, this sounds like a really good deal, guaranteed,

02:14all looked after, I'd have to worry about it.

02:16However, we have 1.3 million people

02:18on the social housing waiting lists.

02:20So, you said earlier, I think perhaps tongue-in-cheek,

02:23this was my favourite topic.

02:24It definitely is not my favourite topic.

02:26You do mention it occasionally, it has to be said.

02:28I respond, and when I'm asked about it,

02:29or people post about it,

02:32this is a favourite topic of the right-wing media.

02:35First of all, these people are human beings,

02:36let's remember that, OK?

02:38And if they are here illegally, they should be deported,

02:41and with any luck, will be deported.

02:43But there has to be due process.

02:45We have laws in this country,

02:46which is one of the reasons people want to come to this country,

02:48one of the reasons that makes us a great country

02:50of the rule of law.

02:52As you've both said, this is a cheaper solution

02:54at the moment than it is putting people up in hotels.

02:58And by the way, just speaking purely for myself,

03:00I would not like to be in a hotel,

03:02stuck in a hotel for, what is it, a year, two years,

03:05seven quid a day, living with another man,

03:08not my idea of fun.

03:09So this idea of living in luxury, to me,

03:11is, I think, utter nonsense.

03:13Yes, people are struggling.

03:14I talk about it repeatedly.

03:16Tens of millions of us are struggling to make ends meet.

03:19And I can just assure you of one thing,

03:21that if the people who come across the boats

03:23were not coming across on the boats,

03:24those tens of millions of us would still be struggling.

03:28We've got a massive problem here, which we do have.

03:30Let's look over there and blame them.

03:33And that's been done for decade after decade after decade.

03:35It's nothing new.

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