The Home Office is splashing out on 300 new ‘Asylum Decision Makers’, offering a salary of £30,000 to £31,500 a year – plus a 28.97% gold-plated pension contribution – to plough through the backlog of asylum claims. That’s a combined average salary cost of £9.225 million a year. The Home Office asks those thinking of applying if they have the following ‘key’ skills:
The ad is also at pains to state that “equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of Asylum Operations”, along with offering lucky recruits flexibility for home-based working. Applications close May 19. Gold star for applying…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”