>> So what's the answer? Throw buckets of money over it?
That's the current 'solution'! £6m/day for 57,000 in hotels. £1.6bn for the accommodation barge(s). Then there are the other 75,000, not sure where there are - various airfields?
The Home Office policy is presumably not to process many of these cases. There are currently IIRC, I can't find the reference, about 1200 case workers processing an average of 4 asylum claims per month each.
The only viable plan really would be to process the asylum claims in accordance with applicable laws within a reasonable period of time. Temporary accommodation would then be a much simpler and cheaper operation, and successful applicants could perhaps fill some gaps in care work and fruit picking, nursing or doctoring, and paying some tax.
The government plan as things stand currently is illegal. Various of them have proposed leaving ECHR and changing the law to get round it.
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