{"id":76509,"date":"2025-06-17T19:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76509"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:36:01","slug":"channel-migrants-given-free-tv-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/17\/channel-migrants-given-free-tv-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel migrants \u2018given free TV licences\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1GRKEk.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=458&amp;y=359&amp;s=1375&amp;d=242\" alt=\"The number of migrants crossing the Channel has passed 16,000 - Sameer Al-Doumy\/Getty\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Illegal migrants have been given free TV licences funded by the taxpayer,\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2025\/06\/01\/reform-uk-launches-doge-council-unit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">a Reform UK \u201cDoge\u201d audit<\/a> has found.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/channel-migrants-given-free-tv-licences\/ar-AA1GRKEL?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=2d0b98ec3b934a77a194612a5df4ac50&amp;ei=74\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Illegal migrants have been given free TV licences funded by the taxpayer,\u00a0a Reform UK \u201cDoge\u201d audit has found. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Migrants-adrift.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76510,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76509\/revisions\/76510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}