Sky News reports:
Dealing with Russian threats or 'Putin tax' is costing UK billions per year
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Part of the cost to keep up with Sky's news about Putin is to pay for a subscription to something - Sky does not exactly say what - so their own subscription is a part of this 'Putin tax' - a rare example of Sky humour.
Now that imperial, Hitlerian despot Putin is being blamed for costing the UK taxpayer billions - just like illegal immigration which is far more of a threat to the UK than he is - so where are the reports about the illegal immigration tax?
The illegal immigration tax has already cost the UK taxpayer far more than a 'Putin tax' ever will.
According to an AI summary from asylumstats.co.uk:
The current cost of the asylum system in the UK is around £8.0 billion annually, which translates to approximately £234 per income taxpayer. This includes various expenses related to managing asylum claims and supporting those who enter the country illegally.
While LBC reports:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/asylum-claims-cost-taxpayer-19k-5HjdcQL_2/
Asylum claims each cost the taxpayer £18.7k, according to latest Home Office figures
Home Office papers also revealed that 76 per cent of those who claimed asylum under the 'right to family and private life' are unemployed.
The latest figure, published by the Home Office on Tuesday in background papers to the new Immigration and Asylum Bill, covers the period from July 2024 to June 2025.
It would put the cost to the taxpayer of dealing with the 93,525 asylum applications lodged in the year to March 2026 at £1.7 billion.
Presumably Putin is costing the UK taxpayer billions in aid to Ukraine and the cost of re-armament to counter the alleged Russian military threat to the UK whereas the illegal immigration tax is costing the UK taxpayer billions to support illegal immigration.
Bonkers!