Hostile Environment Working Group

Asylum seekers have allegedly been evicted from homes that could be housing hard-working British families, thanks to subcontractors for G4S. Since refugees, like all so-called social care problems, are in fact a security problem, the Government very sensibly chose to deal with them by throwing three hundred and twenty-four million in taxpayers' money at the very same security firm which failed to provide security at last year's Olympics. Although G4S is rather good at accumulating money, it seems to have taken a rather relaxed attitude towards paying it out; in this case, to the landlords of the accommodation in which asylum seekers were housed pending deportation, imprisonment or some other patriotic reformation via the tabloids or the Farage Falange. Obviously, non-payment of rent means problems not only for asylum seekers but for landlords as well; and, doubtless on behalf of the latter, a parliamentary committee has been moved to investigate.