[simonsarris]

> They are paid £37.75 a week to live on. This is not a lot.

Shifting discussion from the cost of refugees to talking about only the food cost, or whatever it is that £37.75 a week amounts to, seems like a deliberate dodge. I'd be pretty insulted if I was from the UK. Obviously that's not a lot of money because obviously its not the whole picture.

What they are paid, or that they are paid at all, is never ever a relevant £ figure in these discussions unless its introduced to make it sound artificially small. When discussing cost, nothing but the total £ cost per refugee matters.

[pjc50]

Admittedly that excludes housing benefit, but again, when they are forbidden from working, where and how are they supposed to live?

The stipend is for food and all other living expenses - clothes, heating etc.