Migrants bringing huge benefits to UK

[tay]

I am a lady....

No you are not. You are a truck driver from Essex called Barry.

We have been over this already!

[daviejones]

She looks nothing like a Barry...if anything, more like a Claude...or a Gene!!!

[cailin maith]

No you are not. You are a truck driver from Essex called Barry.

We have been over this already!

Oh yeah... I forgot... (gruff voice)

[realityhack]

Ferret - why are you allowing these obviously provocative posts to stay around.. who ever complained about my post, why didn't they complain about this one, its not pure news reporting, its provoking people

What utter bilge. This isn't a news service - we don't have to be impartial or PC here.

[daviejones]

What utter bilge. This isn't a news service - we don't have to be impartial or PC here.

We need to ban SandyDown for being stooopid! Go Mr Ferret Sir!!

[DodgyAgent]

Cool, dodgy knows them all!! I think it very naive to say that very few immigrants are on benefits. Where are you getting your figures from? What about the issue of Europeans who claim benefits for children that are not even living in this country? Or was that a myth?

I have no evidence whatsoever, but there is also no evidence to support that large numbers of immigrants are on benefits (as was implied). If one or two immigrants is getting away with screwing the benefits system then fine let's hear it, but what is being implied is that the majority of immigrants are doing this.

[daviejones]

I have no evidence whatsoever, but there is also no evidence to support that large numbers of immigrants are on benefits (as was implied). If one or two immigrants is getting away with screwing the benefits system then fine let's hear it, but what is being implied is that the majority of immigrants are doing this.

Nope, what I implied was that there was an outcry some months ago when it was raised and reported in the press. I do not believe it is the majority, but neither do I believe it is "just a few". If you open up a loop hole such as this, where poor people can get a whole handful of extra cash, then it will be abused by a large proportion.

[sasguru]

I have no evidence whatsoever, but there is also no evidence to support that large numbers of immigrants are on benefits (as was implied). If one or two immigrants is getting away with screwing the benefits system then fine let's hear it, but what is being implied is that the majority of immigrants are doing this.

It's clear to anyone who works and lives in London that this is not the case.
Perhaps the parasite immigrants have been banished to the sticks where they will feel more at home

[DodgyAgent]

Nope, what I implied was that there was an outcry some months ago when it was raised and reported in the press. I do not believe it is the majority, but neither do I believe it is "just a few". If you open up a loop hole such as this, where poor people can get a whole handful of extra cash, then it will be abused by a large proportion.

It is an incredible assumption that you are making, that immigrants take the trouble to come to this country just to screw the benefits system. Though this may indeed happen amongst some of them it does not apply to for example Eastern Europeans, though you are clearly putting them all under the same "umbrella"

[daviejones]

It is an incredible assumption that you are making, that immigrants take the trouble to come to this country just to screw the benefits system. Though this may indeed happen amongst some of them it does not apply to for example Eastern Europeans, though you are clearly putting them all under the same "umbrella"

Again, not what I said. I didn't say that they came to screw the system, I said they were taking advantage of a loophole. You cannot argue that our benefit system is a joke. People flock here because our benefit system is such a mess. They know they can get benefits, houses, whatever. This was raised in parliament and NL got slated because of this loophole...

I also believe it was the Easter Europeans that were blamed because at the time it was raised there were stories of Polish workers sending home money to kids that they either did not have or were still in Poland. The mess of our system made it impossible to check whether the claimees actually had kids!!!

I am not tarring them all with the same brush, but saying that Easter Europeans do NOT do this is either very stupid or incredibly naive.