Sun Seeks To Drive Afghan Refugees From Home
A WIN for the Sun as Toorpakai Saindi and her seven children are to be kicked out of their home.
The Sun says the home in Acton, West London, is worth £1.2milion – and falling in value all the time. The single mum gets the “equivalent of £170,000 a year from the taxpayer”.
The paper makes no mention of why Ms Toorpakai moved to the UK, only that she was placed in the home because the council had a shortage of alternative accommodation.
James Purnell, the magical Work and Pensions Secretary, says it is “unacceptable”. He is writing up rules that will aim to place a cap on rent for houses with five bedrooms or more.
The Sun does not say if this is a cap on what the council will pay or a cap on what the landlord can charge. If landlords all charge a higher fee, than Purnell deems fair, what then? Will he split families up into smaller accommodation? Will he rule that families of only certain size will be grated refugee status?
Says Purnell: “This first step is part of a much wider review.”
Which is tantamount to the of-trotted political mantra: “Join the debate.”
What it all adds up to is that Ms Saindi is still in her rented home. Her landlord is collecting £12, 458 from the council every month.
On a brighter note, a family who sought refuge in this country are being demonised by the tabloid press.
Afghan family living well, but grumbles about no access to Sky TV
Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Immigration, Media Comments (26) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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November 10th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Afghans were turning up here well before 9/11; back then they were fleeing the taliban and not looking for free housing and a life of welfare payments, oh no.
Send the buggers back.
MODS and ADMIN
Grace
How would your conscience cope with the fact that you woulld be sentencing people to death?
October 24th, 2008 at 7:20 am
It’s time for them to go home!
October 21st, 2008 at 6:29 pm
A former head of the British Army, Sir Mike Skinner, said that the living conditions of many people serving in the military were “shameful” .
So the government want to bring democracy and a more stable life to Afghanistan and Afghan refugees but incredibly allow their own to live in shitholes.
New Labour? The New Titanic that needs to be sunk.
October 21st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
now ya talkin!
October 21st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Damn!
You spotted the flaw!
Maybe it would work better with Fully Secured Bank Funding Pigeon…
October 21st, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I wouldn’t bank on that….
October 21st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I’ve had a better idea; I shall march up to the ticket place and assert that I’m with you.
An invisible Pigeon friend should convince them that I’m a bona fide member of the musical glitterati, and should be let in before the Pigeon takes punitive action…
October 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
why ever not
October 21st, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I’ve noticed that as well!
I’m off to an organ recital tonight, given by a family friend, and I am pondering whether I could face the embarrassment of the unwaged entrance fee…
October 21st, 2008 at 4:39 pm
One of my pet hates is the misuse of the word ‘Personality’. We’ve all got one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqP8KJLvPp8
October 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
neither does the salary!
October 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
oh yes, work is the curse of the drinking classes, sorry, thinking classes.
Far better to meditate on the scenery than hack your way on and off commuter trains, but that doesn’t pay the bills…
October 21st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
i’m ok in the morning. I’m quite happy sitting there with a cuppa and a roll watching the lovely thrushes and blackbirds in the garden eating all the worms off the lawn and watching the sun rise best part of the day until I suddenly realise I’ve got work..
October 21st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Actually, I feel like that about everybody in the morning, so I can and do sympathise…
October 21st, 2008 at 3:56 pm
That is a fact. Especially the most bloody condecending ones on BBC breakfast - they make me waana rip the TV off the wall and ram it right up their arses
deep breaths pigeon deep breaths….
October 21st, 2008 at 3:53 pm
And the fact that as a ‘television personality’ she may see acres of publicity coming her way.
Presumably television personalities have personalities different to the rest of us…
October 21st, 2008 at 3:48 pm
He has a very loyal wife! She dismissed it as ‘just a one night stand’! She must love his money…
October 21st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
As was this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/20/AR2008102002644.html
My apologies for the pun…
October 21st, 2008 at 3:25 pm
it’s a bloody hard one!
October 21st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Part of the problem in turning away Afghan refugees is that they became refugees because of a war we, and our allies, chose to fight in their country.
Life would be so much simpler if we did not have that element of responsibility…
October 21st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Agree with your comments Cand C
Gordon Brown apparently said there must be “an end to irresponsibilty in banking”
There needs to be too an end to irresponsibility in local and national government.
October 21st, 2008 at 2:45 pm
agree JB. It’s the system thats at fault 100%
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Would one really have expected the woman to say a polite ‘No thank you’ when she was offered the house? (out of a choice of three!) of course not….. not her fault. And the landlord? h was actually told how much he could charge, so he did!
October 21st, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Note: At the bottom of my post I should have written” clueless at efficency”
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M&A
Artemis
John, I have fixed the typo.
October 21st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
There are many English people who worked hard all of their lives but never lived in a home valued over a million.
The laws that allow new arrivals in the UK to be given everything on a plate badly need a major overhaul, and in my book, the rights of UK citizens should be FIRST and not put on the back-burner because of mindless uncontrolled forced immigration.
After the second world war, millions of Brits lived on rations books for years,and even sweets were rationed until 1953.
I personally do not believe that mass immigration is vital for the British economy(whatever the postives they are outweighed by numerous negatives)
I read that about 75,000 Afghans are currently in the UK ,and they must be sending letters back home that Britain is a place where you can get almost everything for FREE.
Its time to put the British first in their own country,and, not make PC Britain a place where people who work hard are taken for mugs seven days a week by their own government.
Local UK administrations have proved continually that they are power crazy monkeys……Lambeth, Brent, Ealing, etc……..giving themselves gold-plated pensions,investing millions in Icelandic banks, and treating the people they are supposedto serve like dirt.This case involving an Afghan family being given an expense house is another example of a local authority who are clueless at effiency but brilliant at wasting taxpayers money. Its the system that totally messed-up.
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M&A
Artemis
Edited to correct typo.
October 21st, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I don’t have a problem with the Afghani woman or even the landlord. I do have a big problem with the lack of administration of law that lets something like this happen.
I can understand anyone from a poverty stricken/ war torn part of the world trying hard, by whatever means, to get to somewhere else for a potentially better life but it is up to the government to make sure that our laws are rigidly enforced.
The people who should be dragged over the coals and discredited are the Housing staff who let this happen because it was the easy option at the time.
October 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Maybe The Sun should mount a concerted effort to raise public awareness in another case Anorak hold dear !!