How absurd to ban asylum seekers from doing a job

Preventing migrants from working merely encourages them to be dependent on welfare instead

At least Adam and Muhammad, two Sudanese asylum seekers living it up at the £70 a night Best Western Park Hall Hotel in Chorley, Lancashire, will have nice things to say in their TripAdvisor review. How the management must wish all guests would describe their stay as “like being reborn”, rather than moaning, as one did last week, about the Artexed ceilings and the blue lights in her ensuite which left her “unable to apply make-up confidently”.

True, if I had saved up for a weekend minibreak and saw asylum seekers enjoying the spa and the 140-acre grounds for free it might just spoil my soak in the hot tub. But you can hardly blame asylum seekers for living on benefits. We do, after all,