UK Soft Touch confirmed by European Courts

[Emigre]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8535625.stm

No entitlement to be here but we still have to pay. Great Plan B possibilities.

[Moscow Mule]

Just expel the kids from school, problem solved...

[SueEllen]

Never let facts get in the way of a good story

The Appeal court in London sent the case straight to Luxembourg instead of ruling on it themselves.

And the ruling is for other EU citizens i.e. those from Poland, Portugal, France not those from countries outside the EU i.e. Somalia, India, Australia. Hence the headlines for the story are wrong.

[Emigre]

Never let facts get in the way of a good story

The Appeal court in London sent the case straight to Luxembourg instead of ruling on it themselves.

And the ruling is for other EU citizens i.e. those from Poland, Portugal, France not those from countries outside the EU i.e. Somalia, India, Australia. Hence the headlines for the story are wrong.

So i guess we send the CSA over to Denmark then?

[snaw]

Never let facts get in the way of a good story

The Appeal court in London sent the case straight to Luxembourg instead of ruling on it themselves.

And the ruling is for other EU citizens i.e. those from Poland, Portugal, France not those from countries outside the EU i.e. Somalia, India, Australia. Hence the headlines for the story are wrong.

I thought the story was pretty clear.

Woman comes to london to be with husband, who works for 5 months. Stops working, claims incapacity, fcks off to Denmark when it runs out and leaves her here, and you (hehe) the UK taxpayers get to pick up the bill for someone who's not a UK national (Or her kids) and has never in her life contributed a penny to the UK economy.

Now I'm a bit of a lefty (Shock horror), but ffs even I can see that's just not right.

[SueEllen]

I thought the story was pretty clear.

Woman comes to london to be with husband, who works for 5 months. Stops working, claims incapacity, fcks off to Denmark when it runs out and leaves her here, and you (hehe) the UK taxpayers get to pick up the bill for someone who's not a UK national (Or her kids) and has never in her life contributed a penny to the UK economy.

Now I'm a bit of a lefty (Shock horror), but ffs even I can see that's just not right.

The headlines wouldn't sound so good if it was Danish Benefit scrounger.

[SueEllen]

So i guess we send the CSA over to Denmark then?

In theory yes.

Shame we can't send the entire family back to Denmark as well. After all living standards are much better in Denmark than in the UK.........

[snaw]

The headlines wouldn't sound so good if it was Danish Benefit scrounger.

I'd still think it was wrong for someone who's never worked in this country to get benefits paid for by us.

Or at least have their EU country of residence contribute towards the benefits (Like NZ does for kiwis in Australia)