By prioritising mental health, we will see better policies overall.
Improving mental health must depend on:
🩺 Improving physical health
🌳 Protecting our environments
💷 Alleviating poverty
🏠 Ending housing insecurity
🚌 Improving transport
🏘️ Strengthening communities
Some Facts:
Asylum seekers make up 6% of all immigrants into the UK and just 60% are succesful in their applications
Remember small boats before Brexit? There were none because there were safe routes into the UK
This crisis like the hate is being generated by the government
People seeking asylum in this country make up only 0.18% of the population.
If they do have recourse to public funds, it is £37.75 a week. That is just over £5 per day.
In one year, Suella Braverman claimed £159,000 in expenses. That is £435 a day.