{"id":68992,"date":"2023-03-31T08:32:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T07:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=68992"},"modified":"2023-03-31T09:08:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T08:08:15","slug":"has-the-government-exacerbated-the-migrant-crisis-for-its-own-political-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/03\/31\/has-the-government-exacerbated-the-migrant-crisis-for-its-own-political-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the government exacerbated the migrant crisis for its own political gain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This extract from Newsnight is deeply telling.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2 minutes on Newsnight last night to say:<\/p>\n<p>The government has deliberately created a crisis as a campaign tool<\/p>\n<p>They have stopped processing asylum claims, letting numbers build up, in barges or hotels, just so at the next election they can say they\u2019re the ones to fix it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/r4today?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#r4today<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6buyXFMlRm\">pic.twitter.com\/6buyXFMlRm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zoe Gardner (@ZoeJardiniere) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZoeJardiniere\/status\/1641328697662660608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Zoe Gardner , who is a migration expert, makes three allegations. They are, firstly, that the government has created an asylum crisis by denying people safe-route access to the UK, forcing them into the hands of people smugglers and onto small boats.<\/p>\n<p>Second, she suggested that the government has deliberately moved to putting asylum seekers into highly visible hotels to increase social tension around this issue.<\/p>\n<p>And third, she suggests that the government has simply stopped asylum application processing at least at any meaningful level to increase tension.<\/p>\n<p>I believe Zoe Gardner. I think that this crisis has been, if not created then greatly exacerbated by his government for deliberate reasons that can only be summarised as their gain at the expense of the misery of tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-34\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Has the government exacerbated the migrant crisis for its own political gain?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-34-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>Yes <small>(97%, 609 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 97%;\" title=\"Yes (97% | 609 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>I'm abstaining, but show me the results anyway <small>(2%, 14 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 2%;\" title=\"I&#039;m abstaining, but show me the results anyway (2% | 14 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>No <small>(1%, 5 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 1%;\" title=\"No (1% | 5 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>This question is insulting to the Tories <small>(0%, 1 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 0%;\" title=\"This question is insulting to the Tories (0% | 1 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total Voters: <strong>629<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_34_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"c3353f81eb\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-34-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This extract from Newsnight is deeply telling. 2 minutes on Newsnight last night to say: The government has deliberately created a crisis as a campaign<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/03\/31\/has-the-government-exacerbated-the-migrant-crisis-for-its-own-political-gain\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,14,16,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-corruption","category-ethics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69000,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68992\/revisions\/69000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}