Mobile Phone Sim Cards For Asylum Seekers Cost Home Office £60,000 A MONTH

Mobile phone sim cards for asylum seekers are costing the Home Office almost £60,000 a month, according to a Freedom of Information request.
Isabel Oakeshott joins Talk's Kevin O'Sullivan to discuss the story.
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[@grahamjones5947]

It cost the home office F**K ALL it cost us the British taxpayer

[@XandraK10]

Exactly😡

[@Brian-om2hh]

Exactly

[@stud105]

We're paying the reperations of our inbred masters to these 3rd world peoples. Tight z******* ***'s

[@stud105]

Lol. Tight jew filth.

[@stud105]

109

[@alanclark4255]

Get rid of this bloody 'government'

[@jamesavery2]

Get rid of the British Establishment ,more like 😡

[@sh.4409]

Englishmen need to protest at Dover. They might do something then.

[@msto1987]

4.5 years pal

[@derekcadman4927]

i suppose you could this goverment the bangers and mash party they are sausages!

[@derekcadman4927]

@@msto1987 im going for a labour dinner tomorrow bangers and mash

[@summer031977]

Wow. And Our government can't afford 300 pounds for our pensioners? This is a slap in the face of all British people.

[@msto1987]

farmers are hiring... go pick some veg, stop expecting the government help you

[@2old2pogo]

@@msto1987 so you're expecting old age pensioners to pick veg? get a grip

[@summer031977]

@@shittowel what?

[@summer031977]

@@msto1987 What about the illegal migrants who are getting free things? Did they contribute to the system?

[@Ripplehurst]

@@msto1987is this what you’d ask your grandparents to do, would you? Go pick vegetables (in winter) and keep warm that way?

[@angelaburton4853]

It's a bloody disgrace

[@Maz-31]

It's sickening

[@patriciahanvey286]

I've worked 50 years whilst bringing up a family, never claimed a penny apart from child benefit, My pension is £3.05 over the threshold for pension credit, why on earth did I bother?

[@Zoro007]

Answering the 243 tick box questionnaire is another reason not to apply for pension credit......and that's done on purpose.... I wonder why?????......Good luck to you though I'm in the same predicament...👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@rafezetter8003]

starmer is guarenteeing an entire generation of people won't make any pension planning, for the exact situation you are in.

[@AgnesFay-k5c]

People who get pension credit , get about £4 a week less than people who worked all their lives and get full state pension

[@susansimpson6049]

Same here..age 15 to 67, not long retired!...thanks Reeves!

[@petemayes1940]

@@AgnesFay-k5c Agnes I paid self employed NI for 42 years, my mate never bothered ,waste of time he reckons 4 years max he paid,he gets tax credits making his state pension same as mine plus he gets the Winter fuel I dont.....

[@barriewilliams4526]

And they steal off pensioners to help pay for this stuff......

[@msto1987]

pensioners are NOT being stolen from, sir kier is cutting off the people who dont want to go to work, content to sit on their arses, mooching $ from the tit of the government

[@Drtyffgh756]

Get rid of these Illegal immigrants they are costing the Tax Payer a fortune.

[@DavesGarden1714]

They are Starmer supporters

[@mrmerlinthewizardify]

They are the guys who pay for Starmers wife’s clothes

[@msto1987]

they aren't illegal

[@susansimpson6049]

Not allowed to say that, it's the pensioners that are the problem! ..52 years working from 15 years old, not long retired at 67 and that's the thanks I get! When the immigrants haven't contributed a penny??

[@DavesGarden1714]

@@msto1987 They certainly are illegal and not wanted in the UK

[@macchiatomachiato]

all unagreed with the british people

[@SteveVile]

We pay for them because our government is absolutely spineless

[@peterkay4477]

Or, we pay for them because our Government has its own agenda. And it doesn't include us.

[@msto1987]

or because they are abiding by what they sign-up for

[@stepheneurosailor1623]

Your government are following its master's orders one being George Soros, and David Miliband

[@TheHeninhardenne]

Ali wants them may be

[@fedup664]

And we still get called racist

[@msto1987]

because you are, or maybe you just say and think racist things

[@rayfinkel4434]

@@msto1987what’s racist about not wanting the world to come here?

[@Carfilliot]

@@rayfinkel4434that was way too much an intelligent a question for that idiot to even comprehend let alone answer!

[@bencarter2334]

Your considered racist if you disagree.

[@LWD1099]

​@msto1987 in what way was his comment racist?

[@maureenjohnson6212]

Can somebody on Talk radio ask Starmer to his face… Why does he support these migrants instead of the British people. Put that question to him and let’s hear what he has to say… Don’t let him waffle out of the question. I for one want him to answer the question. Also, why is he not stopping the boats..

[@philprice760]

Totally agree with you, keep asking him until he answers the question, don’t let him get out of it. It doesn’t make sense why we are doing this.

[@msto1987]

because the uk has made agreement with many countries and he won't be the one to break the UKs word to become an even bigger joke to the rest of the world... go on say you want to be a hypocrite and an oath breaker, its cool

[@susansimpson6049]

It's very odd, not a mention of the illegals or non working immigrants costing billions a year, only the pensioners allowance can fill the black hole??? No one has questioned their cruel logic! So rage enducing!

[@mach7056]

why should the tax payer be paying this? If the government isn't prepared to stop all this, then they should foot the bill themselves!

[@Brian-om2hh]

The only way the government can foot the bill is by using money from the taxpayer. The government doesn't actually have any money. They get what they need from the taxpayer....

[@sh.4409]

There needs to be a major protest at Dover.

[@eileenspamer-kw3kz]

@@sh.4409 with high powered riffles and sharp shooters

[@msto1987]

you signed up for it dummy

[@Renegade1127]

To put it another way ...... £720,000 per year. That's £200 winter fuel payments for 3600 pensioners.

[@msto1987]

who can just as easily get off their buts and go pick veg...farmers ARE hiring

[@Carfilliot]

@@msto1987you really should give up on the trolling, you suck at it!!!

[@ianrose56]

I was just about to post that figure. It's absolutely ridiculous.!!! And now Starmer is calling Hostages, Sausages.!!!

[@mrsupplementsUK]

IM DONE WITH THESE PRATS

[@msto1987]

oh, well, im pretty sure sir kier doesn't care all that much but do carry on

[@IOWPCV]

Can't believe this .. absolute joke these jokers in government

[@msto1987]

hahahahahahahaha. they are making me laugh author mad you get

[@johngreen6191]

Wokes running the Home Office.

[@msto1987]

woke is a good thing accept to bigots xenophobes and racists...they all hate it

[@chriscoburn6614]

RIGHT !! THIS REQUIRES IMMEDIATE DISCUSSION

[@markhoulding1938]

No they actually cost the British Tax payer. 🤦‍♂️😡

[@You.are.boring.me.now2024]

This country is finished!

[@user-bw8mc1zx1h]

Just like the Europeans who invaded Palestine broke that country with our support eh..... What goes around comes around

[@georgeroberts6457]

you shout and scream how this makes you feel and what is it we get...6 months in jail and a label as a racist

[@msto1987]

ba da bup bup dup.... im lovin it

[@Brian-om2hh]

Incorrect. They don't cost the Home Office a single penny, because the Home Office gets it's funding from the Treasury, who in turn get money from the taxpayer..... The Government doesn't have any money, they get what they need from the taxpayer....

[@G.A.R.2002]

The taxpayers' money has been blowen every day for years .and still not one politician is saying nothing about it. Not one batts an eye ?????W T F us going on??????

[@philprice760]

Indeed, the Government work for the taxpayer , people forget this, the government forget this . I’d sack the lot of them .

[@msto1987]

funny how you have to explain government spending to the simpletons on this board.... shows how little the viewers of this channel understand politics

[@ted5669]

Over the last 18 months, all I see in my area are lots of Africans walking around. Apparently we have no council houses, yet we can accommodate all these people

[@msto1987]

do you have a point? or just xenophobia and selfish what about me-isms

[@ted5669]

@@msto1987 No me-isms! No racism! No selfishness. Just stating the fact that we are giving these people everything and our own f all

[@trevormannsfield]

How do you know all these Africans are being given free houses?

[@msto1987]

@ted5669 "f our own" is a perfect example of both SELFISHNESS and what about me-isms. God British education is lacking....and yes f them

[@nigelmitchell351]

​@@trevormannsfieldIt's public knowledge that foreign nationals get our council and social housing.

[@abergreg]

This is typical of the Home office clowns.

[@kevlacy5306]

It doesn't cost the jhome office a penny, It costs the tax payer!

[@tina6936-k]

We really need to start making a noise for referendums!

[@jamesavery2]

Could if you drag them away from football 😡

[@msto1987]

you have no voice you have no power your party lost, deal with it

[@TomTomicMic]

​@@msto1987 The Tories lost because "we" never voted for them, we couldn't quite vote for Reform and we never voted for Labour either but next time there will be a reckoning, if they said they was going to stop the Winter Fuel payments and all the other stuff they would have never got in, but they will make things worse and they will be out for more than 15 years next time, guaranteed!?!

[@shanetheundertaker8474]

Pay as you go ? More like pay as you stay ! Or pay as you replace !

[@sh.4409]

They literally are paying them to stay. If they stopped they would leave and they want them here to cause chaos. They can then bring in more laws against the actual British people.

[@harryfoster6374]

Kevin, we have stopped listening to them from day one.

[@douglastaggart9360]

It doesnt mattet how much it costs its the principal this makes me so angry.

[@superrrnova1986]

I need to give up on the news as I get angrier by the day

[@jon-gz4ed]

Now we can see why labour won't show the data of the 22 billion

[@willbodek702]

7.2 million pounds a year.!!!!!!!!!!😮.. Stazi is taking the piss out of us.? The taxpayers 😢

[@msto1987]

your funny pretending that 7 million dollars is a significant #....real countries deal with billions not quibble over millions

[@willbodek702]

@@msto1987 get a life 1 million Is to much for illigals.

[@Carfilliot]

@@msto1987you’re really not that bright are you? Confusing dollars with pounds!!

[@TheEnglishOne]

I would rather get sacked and go on benefits than keep paying for this

[@DeneMonkey]

So cost the taxpayers

[@TheEnglishOne]

@@DeneMonkey I am a taxpayer.. don't talk to me about paying taxes

[@TheEnglishOne]

@DeneMonkey "so cost the taxpayers" 🙄 Say you'd rather have predators paid for without saying, I'd rather have predators paid for

[@Brian-om2hh]

The problem there, is if we all went on benefits then where would the money come from to pay those benefits?

[@terranceprice7006]

@@TheEnglishOne Me too, I pay tax opn my OAP Pension yearly, and just had my form and my tax has nearly doubled for year 2023 to 2024 to be payed by January 2025. My pension has not doubled.

[@leelec1]

They come here for the ' perks' , why wouldn't they?

[@chieftandriver703]

I want a free iPhone and contract. I want free accommodation and food. I want free transportation and an on-site dentist instead of paying a private dentist. I want a free lawyer and legal advice when I want it. I pay tax and NI and have done so for 44 years The Tories started this. It’s not going to stop under 2 tier Keir or soppy Cooper The pensioners are being killed off to pay for these migrants

[@GeorgeKent-e2j]

Get yourself down to dover put on a lifejacket and walk along the shore

[@msto1987]

get on a dingy, and sail to france then

[@jacquelinepearson2288]

I thought they were given 'spending money', so why can't they buy their own SIM cards? Tax payers should have more say on how and where the Government uses the revenue they take from us.

[@msto1987]

if you where in charge maybe you could stop it, alas, your not so I guess all that's left is to cry and moan

[@al-masihad-dajjal4565]

FREE THE SAUSAGES

[@DarrenBaxter-v9n]

The government says STOP THE GANGS,😂😂😂😂😂😂they are THE GANGS

[@DavesGarden1714]

The illegal immigrants have been renamed iregular immigrants by Starmer so they are not offended by the truth

[@Captainblack710]

Disgusting 🤢

[@starkster2qf]

Two words you will hear a lot of over the next 12 months.....STARMER OUT

[@superrrnova1986]

Will probably be a custodial offence to say that within 3 months though

[@nigeladams8508]

Funny how they find the money for a place on a boat

[@SteveVile]

3/4 of a million a year on sim cards for migrants

[@jonsnow6741]

We could be setting up home office terror cells all at our expense .

[@ellismeah8110]

Home office are making the rules and policy

[@Jezza_One]

Get rid of the uniparty.

[@nogorman560]

The people who really need help will never be able to afford the trip to EU

[@DJOkocha]

Can somebody in government please explain why those born here who have paid tax, n i, fuel duty, road tax etc are sleeping on the streets or get told at the council that they are not priority, this is disgraceful

[@philipbastianelli9015]

this country is well fucked

[@davidlawrence9091]

Politicians, are not only getting Freebies?

[@chrisk9646]

Excuse me. It's not costing the Home Office anything. It is costing the British taxpayers who pay for this and everything else. We are constantly being ripped off and treated like idiots, and Starmer couldn't give a toss about the British taxpayers who are struggling. He is evil

[@itk2493]

STOP given em stuff, how hard can it be!

[@dawnhunter6965]

If they’re admitting to 60 k a month it’s a lot more !

[@SaxJockey]

You may be correct. SIM cards can be had for £6 pcm. £60,000 pcm amounts to 10,000 cards at £6 each. It's hard to believe the numbers are limited to 10,000 cards.

[@markfindlay8636]

Could we not just give them pagers? Asking for a friend.

[@KentPatriot]

I see what you did there 👏🔥

[@slewvian]

Palestinian ones😆

[@knoxyish]

now thats a great idea!

[@tonyh1515]

Beyond MADNESS !!

[@Zoro007]

I wonder who was lobbied to get this contract to supply the government with these at the tax payers expense??????

[@thepuddlejumper500]

I’d like to know why they need mobile phones as they are fed, housed, given free transport and taken care of unlike our pensioners.

[@paultalbot89]

They need them incase the have to phone a friend just like who wants to be a millionaire..

[@GeorgeKent-e2j]

So they can phone their buddies back home with directions to their new social house for when they land their boat

[@grahamcroome2109]

Have to ask the question why are we still allowing illegal immigrants to arrive? Is it because we are effectively providing incentives by way of food lodging, spending money and free SIM cards? Our pensioners are having to do without their fuel allowance yet we can still afford to allow hundreds if not thousands of illegal immigrants to arrive on our shores. Clearly the UK government is no longer even attempting to look after the best interests of UK citizens........In my mind that makes it not fit for purpose.

[@msto1987]

its because they aren't illegal, yo can come to the country by hook or by crook under asylum laws and that is just a fact. calling them illegal doesn't make it true, it makes you wrong

[@mrsupplementsUK]

SPOT ON I NEVER THOUGHT OFF THAT WHY BLAME FRANCE WHEN WE OFFER SO MUCH TO THE PRA T S

[@terryelks-op3jk]

Just when you think it can't any more stupid,it does😢

[@waynekerrr9027]

Unfortunately, civil unrest will happen..very unfortunate, but people are coming to the end..

[@pm1104]

It’s an utter disgrace ………………we are doomed with this government! 😢😢😢😢😢

[@jamesavery2]

There is a petition to tje king to disolve Parliament , every one should find it and sign it 😡

[@susansimpson6049]

He won't do it, waste of time! We are stuck with them!! Goodbye what's left of once Great Britain! 😢😢😢

[@msto1987]

yeah all you far right lot go click on something that will be about as productive as voting reform.

[@bencarter2334]

We don't have a king, just a puppet wearing a crown.

[@Flowerpot24]

Who would replace them if they were removed. Reform don't have enough ministers, do we want Conservatives back 😖

[@TomTomicMic]

​@@Flowerpot24 If you don't vote for change then things won't change, we vote Labour out, the following election we vote reform out and we don't stop until they do what the majority wants not the 20% minority!?!

[@Georgia-io1pm]

Why we need to give them SIM card . What’s going to happen to the old people for this winter they going to freeze to death . The government not thinks about the old people the homeless the people who not have jobs what’s going on with this people and the family from them . Really what’s going on England ???????

[@annross8718]

And there taking off the old people

[@colinrobinson4233]

How else are they going to order all that cheese pizza?

[@lucydrennan4377]

It's not bizarre. It's disgusting, sickening, and a whole heap of other things, mostly unrepeatable.

[@Britishtillidie]

So us(taxpayers) are paying for them to stay in a hotel, then we are paying for there SIM cards so they can work illegally! They are fcking laughing at us!

[@susanwilkinson6005]

Don’t feed them get them out charity begins at home

[@jonathanfoster6040]

Absolutely disgusting. We need to stop this.

[@silversurfertech7922]

Bloody bonkers.

[@ritag93]

I am sick and tired of this, the government should return our taxes!!! I never agreed to work for mass immigration!! I am not their slave!

[@annescott6137]

Its us the tax payers who are payinging it give it to our pensioners who will die this winter 😢

[@isobelkirk6602]

Why are we giving them phones or sim cards when we can’t look after our own bloody joke

[@Ukhome-s4p]

And yet they can’t give pensioners winter fuel allowance

[@pauldavis3837]

And bus pass

[@andybollen7354]

How do you expect them to chat with and groom children in the chat rooms if they don't have a mobile phone?

[@msto1987]

ask your father

[@andyreddy-xy2jn]

Deport deport or jail them ! What other country would accept this ?

[@nicksmith4361]

The amounts all add up and the taxpayers are being fleeced.

[@mrcashy5]

A lot of Uk citizens cants afford to pay for a mobile phone are they doing this for the homeless? Ofc focking not.

[@garylongleyl5188]

At the same time pensioners are having their fuel allowance reduced, looks like bus passes to be cut, single council tax going. This is £60 ,000 a month is just the phone. £45 spending allowance for what ? . They have food , heating, tv, free medical care and more ( £45 per week x 52 = £2340 a year) why government complains about pensioners are wasting £300.

[@johnjohn8836]

But how much is everything we pay for to like clothes, furniture, health care, food, spending money, SIM cards, then we have hotel accommodation

[@davidbemrose]

Each and every one of them £21000 a year!!!

[@BunyanaRed1958]

@@davidbemrose That's £437.50 a week David. It's a joke.

[@superrrnova1986]

I'm not sure but you need to get back to work to pay for it

[@superrrnova1986]

@@BunyanaRed1958 Hotel costs are insane.. How much do you think even a week in a travelodge costs? Some of them are four star hotels apparently

[@davidbaker6875]

Starmer is not up to the job. Not Prime Minister, Prime loser.

[@grahampestridge4368]

New phone more than £60000

[@Camille_Anderson]

We owe them nothing. Would any UK citizens be immediately put up in hotels & handed an entirely free life??

[@joycestewart8685]

All men of fighting age 💪💪💪💪 has it ever crossed governments minds THERE COULD BE A COUP IN 4 YEARS TIME !! WHEN NUMBERS HAVE BUILT UP JUST WANTING FOR THE CALL !!

[@christinetennick1174]

We are paying from rags to riches. I am pleased that I am in the f g departure lounge,

[@elizat.7544]

Me too

[@dianevoyce1160]

How many Brits can't afford internet access ? Makes my blood boil

[@mtvoss7595]

Because we are all welcoming and nice people 🤣🤣

[@LWD1099]

Why are they being given simcards for phones at all? They shouldn't receive anything until a claim has actually been deemed to have been actual asylum. WTF has gone on in parliament where madness was allowed to go unchecked for so long? We need a new political party that will actually deal with these problems that are costing taxpayers money that add no benefit to British taxpayers.

[@John-t2v]

A recent report from the office of budget responsibility as stated that each migrant will cost the UK £465000 in their lifetime

[@marcot4863]

Those phones have free credit and a interpreter app ..they have a app free money on every week and thats not misinformation.

[@jameshollyoak8230]

Plus free bus travel

[@michaeljefferson9863]

They have got to have a way of telling their friends back home about how good it is here and what’s on offer

[@bucko321]

I keep telling friends and relatives about the migrant costs, they don't believe me because it's not mentioned on the BBC.

[@hydraV1-c7d]

and its why when the gun is in the face after the door has been kicked in they will scream how did this happen.

[@davidthwaites3815]

Just beggars belief. It just gets worse.

[@adriantowe278]

Crime really does pay

[@DeneMonkey]

Thank you Tories

[@TRUCKERJOES]

What's wrong with that, at least they not started to break it to our homes in UK yet

[@Camille_Anderson]

Oh but they have!

[@jaynekittycat9252]

This is why they are coming, because were to soft.

[@EleventhMonkey]

Read the OBR report on immigration. I doubt anyone else will report it.

[@tp9888]

Agree with her, but she is the biggest snake.