Still want to vote Tory?

[sasguru]

I have no problem with anyone coming over to the uk with 3 stipulations:

1) They should only be elligible for benefits after having lived and worked here for a given number of years.
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What about indigenous people who have a benefit lifestyle i.e. have never worked but claim the dole.
Surely it would be better to give a helping hand to people who want to work regardless of their place of birth, provided they are here legitimately?
But then the whole dole system is skewed iMO. Middle class people (i.e. higher rate taxpayers) fund it but get very little in return.

[sasguru]

How do you plan on stopping people taking their money abroad?

Exchange controls as in communist states?

[Doggy Styles]

FTFH

they really can't manage to avoid shooting their foot.

She's up against a Labour candidate who wrote in 1998 that, at the time of the Brighton bombing, he wished Thatcher had died, and also wished we'd lost the Falklands war.

[The Spartan]

2) No "smash and grab" - Money earnt in the UK should be primarily spent in the UK. I have worked with too many contractors who come over here for 2 years, earn a couple of hundred thousand in their LTD, draw it down and go back to India and retire in luxury on the money earnt here.

The UK actually benefits from more money being sent to it from workers abroad than from money transferred out. I'll see if I can find the article that gives the amounts etc, personally if countries started imposing rules like that I'd be screwed 75% of what I earn here goes back to the UK.

[vetran]

She's up against a Labour candidate who wrote in 1998 that, at the time of the Brighton bombing, he wished Thatcher had died, and also wished we'd lost the Falklands war.

My point proven.

why can't we find someone electable?

[d000hg]

Cameron announces 'same day' visa service for Indian students and businessmen as he rolls out red carpet in Mumbai trade mission | Mail Online

The Prime Minister will open the UK's doors to Indian students and businessmen by dropping limits on immigration numbers and speeding up visas, he announced today.

David Cameron wants to make it easier for Indian businessmen and students to work, study and invest in the UK - in return for India making it easier for British companies to do business in the sub-continent.




Yeah, like the Indian govt will actaully keep their end of the "bargain".

a)Isn't it basically already like this in reality anyway?
b)Aren't UK businesses already realising that cheap overseas workers are not a silver bullet?
c)If Indians are so crap at everything, maybe they WILL want to use UK companies

[Ketchup]

What about indigenous people who have a benefit lifestyle i.e. have never worked but claim the dole.
Surely it would be better to give a helping hand to people who want to work regardless of their place of birth, provided they are here legitimately?
But then the whole dole system is skewed iMO. Middle class people (i.e. higher rate taxpayers) fund it but get very little in return.

This is possibly the thing that annoys me most. Benefits are considered a birth-right. But I can't see a viable solution. I had previously thought about finding work for people once they had been unemployed for 12 months, but apparently this is illegal under archaic slavery legislation.

[TheFaQQer]

As long as they all learn English here, we could be all right

[VectraMan]

Indeed.

As in the Soviet Socialist Republic Of the United Kingdom up until about 1979.

Ah the 70s. That was a golden era if there ever was one, before free trade, immigration and EU interference ruined our economy and destroyed our living standards.

[KentPhilip]

She's up against a Labour candidate who wrote in 1998 that, at the time of the Brighton bombing, he wished Thatcher had died, and also wished we'd lost the Falklands war.

Well at least there's the UKIP candidate:

Diane James, our choice for Eastleigh - UK Independence Party

She hasn't done anything wrong.. Yet..