radicalnan - in your comment you said: Last Christmas I had 15, mixed nationalities, that we great fun for 3 days.
Sounds like you had a great time - did you plan for the extra food, chairs, places to park for your guests, fresh towels, etc., etc.?
Just the sort of thing we all do - what a pity our Government did not do the same thing when they knew in advance what the likely immigrant numbers could be - so I guess they are either incompetent or it was deliberate underfunding.
The 'austerity' cuts which are now getting ever deeper are entirely down to mismanagement of the economy, lack of planning for what was known in advance. In short, UK Government incompetence.
For anyone interested in the financing of the UK, I would recommend a couple of good books:
a) The Joy of Tax - Richard J Murphy
b) Called to Account - Margaret Hodge.
Genuine eye openers
Of course, we could blame Brussels, where Farage and his ilk were fighting for the UK corner to help improve our relationship and get extra funding from across the EU.