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In the UK Daily Mail

Failed asylum seekers are sneaking out of Britain - because they are fed up with the poor healthcare and bad weather.

Scores have been caught trying to break past border controls in recent weeks, according to immigration staff.  The majority of those who have been found are from Afghanistan and Iraq, said Les Williams, a chief immigration officer for the UK Border Agency.

He said: “One thing we have noticed recently is people trying to leave the country.

“We cannot explain exactly why they are trying to go, but when some of these people were questioned they said they wanted to go to a warmer country as they are fed up with the English weather and fed up with their treatment on the NHS.”

For the reason given that some of these people might be criminals, the British government is trying to impede the exodus.

A spokesman for the Home Office added that they took any attempt to evade border control seriously, and were implementing “a hi-tech system for counting people in and out of the country”.

However, as critics point out, those who are found not to be criminals must have costly deportation proceedings begun against them.

Mark Wallace, campaign director for the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: “At a time when police are overstretched and taxpayers are paying far too much we are spending millions stopping these people leaving the country.

“It is lunacy and makes us even more of a laughing stock.”

Others claim failed asylum seekers leaving voluntarily is probably the best hope the Home Office has of clearing a backlog of 285,000 cases.

Some of the comments to this article would seem to show that many native Brits are in empathy with the people who want to leave.  A sampling:

One thing we have noticed recently is people trying to leave the country.” Crikey! They can’t stand Incapability Brown either.

It’s all part of Gordon’s cunning plan to get rid of asylum seekers.  Turn this country into a complete toilet and they’ll all go running home. You have to hand it to him, he’s trying his best, and succeeding.

Sounds very familiar… just the same reasons many Brits have left the UK