Some encouraging news for Birmingham Council Tax Payers

[Terpe]

[B].....Asylum seekers could continue to come to the city but will have to live in privately rented accommodation, paid for by the Border Agency.

The agency is understood to be planning to rehouse the asylum seekers who would have gone to Birmingham elsewhere

Just means that the money will come from a different govt bucket (UKBA)

[Dedworth]

Just means that the money will come from a different govt bucket (UKBA)

It always was the UKBA pot that the untold £££'s were coming from - hopefully this will make it a bit more difficult for the UKBA to fund these peoples lifestyle ie they will be dealing with lots of private landlords which might cause them to rethink the whole shambolic affair. Also public housing is no longer being ringfenced for economic migrants who've binned their passport and jumped off the back of a lorry.