It's often said on the internet that the Government should look after homeless veterans as well as illegal immigrants, because immigrants get housed in hotels, whilst the homeless are left to freeze in shop doorways with no help from either local or National Government.
The reason is simple. It comes down to Funding and legal issues.
For instance there isn't a statutory duty to house homeless people in this country. Funding isn't provided to councils to help the homeless. Instead that is done by charities, that may get grants from local or national government, but it's not a legal or statutory duty placed upon councils to do it.
When it comes to illegal immigrants, there IS a statutory or legal duty of care that national government has to follow. UN charters on "refugees" requires government to house and process anyone coming into the UK claiming asylum. The funding comes from the legal duty placed on government. They HAVE to house these immigrants whilst they process them, thanks to the various treaties and agreements we've signed.
The problem is the processing of these people isn't funded at the same time or to a level able to cope with the numbers coming into the UK. So although legally we have to house them while we process them and the funding stems from that legal requirement, funding of the processing isn't covered. Hence the mismatch between the numbers coming into the country and the poor funding of the agencies required to process them.
It may take years before we eventually kick them out. In that time, they could have left a hotel, shacked up with some girl, got her pregnant and had a kid. Which is what they actively seek to do. That's because once they have "family" i.e. a kid in the UK, then the Court of human rights kicks in and they then claim the right to stay because the human right to family life then becomes a legal priority.
The system is broken, because the funding doesn't track the need.
When we sign treaties, we should always insist there is some requirement that if we are drawing funds for immigration from some source, the funding of secondary support should track the primary funding. If for instance the UN helps fund refugees, then they should also fund secondary support: the agencies tasked with investigating the asylum claims.
We can't continue with the current system where we are expected to accept an infinite number of immigrants without secondary support funding tracking the numbers as well.
When you see injustices in local and national government, this is usually the cause. The disparity with what is mandated legally and what isn't. The disparity between NHS and social care is another example. The NHS is funded Nationally, whereas Social Care is funded by Local government. This is why Social care isn't funded to anywhere near the level that the NHS is.
The dear old NHS, the Gorgon that continues to gobble up ever increasing amounts of taxpayer money, but provides fewer and fewer services. Failing even as we commit billions in funds to it. A result massive levels of mismanagement and incompetence. The NHS joke is that incompetence managers are not fired, they are promoted. And this is why we have chaos in our health service. The managers that are in place are incompetent. They were incompetent lower managers, they were incompetent middle managers and they become incompetent senior managers.
My local health authority lost 250,000 a month for six months, all because someone (wrongly) disputed an energy bill. That's 1.5 million pounds. Lost because someone thought a bill was wrong, flagged it up but never followed through because it wasn't their job. It was their job to flag it up, but not follow through with the process. And that's as inefficient as the NHS works.
And this inability to match legislation to funding has been going on for decades. It's now crippling the country. We do need a great reset, but not the WEF one.
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