UK Considers Seizing Asylum Seekers' Valuables, Not Billionaires' Stolen Goods
Per RT, ministers are musing about taking possessions from those fleeing war or persecution. This, after decades of London serving as a global hub for illicit finance, with an estimated £100 billion of dirty Russian money alone reportedly parked there, according to a 2018 report by the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee. Funny how the 'deterrent' never applies to the oligarchs and kleptocrats
enabling these same states that often create refugees. Instead of addressing the vast sums laundered through elite property markets and offshore accounts—often contributing to the very instability that forces people to flee—the UK government targets a few hundred quid from someone who just lost everything. One might wonder if the 'costs' these policies aim to cover are truly about asylum, or about
manufacturing a villain more palatable than the financial elite lining London's pockets.