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This comment contains multiple false claims about asylum seeker benefits and fabricated assertions about widespread migrant-perpetrated crimes without evidence

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GB News issues breaking migrant news alert in new blow to Keir Starmer

Reader Comment: Yes labour have allowed all these migrants to keep coming. For what they can take from uk money food computers phones sauna s. Gyms. You name it they get it. Labour are proving what Radcliffe. Said was true and labour are proving this man told the truth there is a change in culture. Religion. British people are becoming prisoners in their own country forced of streets because of attacks by migrants. Children now can’t go to play parks because of migrants who want to abuse then. And abuse on public transport Stabbing. Theft they fight with shop keepers and elderly don’t leave there homes and that’s what we pay our council tax for to be prisoners in our own country we are forced to pay for a police force that give full protection to certain cultures who’s religion is destroying uk and now the head of the Christian church. The king are asking us to accept these Muslim cultures even though they are taking uk and causing so much hardship to taxpayers pensioners. And veterans because the amount of money the government are taking , to keep Muslim migrants. Where is the line drawn labour. Are bring them into uk deliberately , what follows next I dread to think. So. Dos our royal family have any idea. What’s truly happening in uk to the British people. Whom the queen served and her beloved country as turned into pig sty by the culture that labour are allowing in may be the royals. Might like To put some of there money in to keeping this culture. The king welcomed with open arms. Just like the rest of uk citizens. Are being robbed of to pay for the overrun. Muslim nation

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The Facts

**MYTH:** Asylum seekers receive luxury benefits like saunas and gyms while making British people "prisoners" through widespread attacks and abuse. **TRUTH:** This claim is categorically false and promotes dangerous xenophobic conspiracy theories. Asylum seekers in the UK receive £49.18 per week through the COMPASS support system - far below the poverty line - plus basic accommodation, often in repurposed hotels or shared housing. They have no access to luxury facilities like saunas or gyms, cannot work legally, and face severe restrictions on movement and services. The Home Office's own data shows asylum seekers live in some of the most deprived conditions in the country, with many reporting inadequate food, overcrowding, and isolation. Crime statistics from the Office for National Statistics show no correlation between immigration levels and crime rates. In fact, multiple academic studies demonstrate that areas with higher immigrant populations often have lower crime rates than the national average. The Metropolitan Police and other forces have repeatedly stated that migrants are more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators. These fabricated claims about widespread migrant attacks, child abuse, and elderly people being "forced" from their homes are racist fantasies designed to dehumanise vulnerable people fleeing persecution. This rhetoric mirrors historical patterns of scapegoating marginalized groups during economic hardship. Such dehumanising language has real consequences - it fuels hate crimes against asylum seekers and undermines community cohesion while distracting from legitimate policy discussions about immigration systems and integration support.

Fact-checked on March 19, 2026

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