Where is the UK headed?

[Big Ben]

freakin' bastards... sending money back to their wives and children... how do they dare?

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Most people have a problem with immigration from within the EU. They also have a problem that a male immigrant here ,gets money to send back to his wife and children living in his former country.

Ok, well please enlighten us to why someone sending their own money that they've earned back to their family is a problem?

[Rudy Tamasz]

freakin' bastards... sending money back to their wives and children... how do they dare?

Out- bloody -rageous!

[driveace]

Claiming money for wives and children that still live in the original country of the person claiming the money in the UK !And they are NOT working for it either !
Would it be OK for me to illegally claim money for my Daughter living in Australia ?
The mayor of Calais says that the UK IS seen as a "Soft Touch" and the benefits are a magnet to immigrants !
Then of course to all the do gooders she is talking sh* t I suppose !

[driveace]

Ok, well please enlighten us to why someone sending their own money that they've earned back to their family is a problem?

Not earned !!!! Claimed from the UK benefits system !

[Starter]

Ok, well please enlighten us to why someone sending their own money that they've earned back to their family is a problem?

That's the heart of the problem. People who think that money received from the government in return for no work has been earned. Fantasyland for sure.

[Malbec]

Claiming money for wives and children that still live in the original country of the person claiming the money in the UK !And they are NOT working for it either !
Would it be OK for me to illegally claim money for my Daughter living in Australia ?
The mayor of Calais says that the UK IS seen as a "Soft Touch" and the benefits are a magnet to immigrants !
Then of course to all the do gooders she is talking sh* t I suppose !

Total benefit fraud costs the UK £1.1 billion per year, most of which is from British nationals who form the vast majority of benefits claimants. Now that is a lot, but to put it into perspective its 0.7% of the total benefits budget (£164 billion FY 2013/4). Although it needs to be reduced it is certainly not the biggest problem facing the UK or the treasury, and migrants are only a small part of the problem.

https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...nal-230614.pdf

BTW if you think the UK is a soft touch for benefits compared to France you clearly don't know anything about the French system!

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Claiming money for wives and children that still live in the original country of the person claiming the money in the UK !And they are NOT working for it either !
Would it be OK for me to illegally claim money for my Daughter living in Australia ?
The mayor of Calais says that the UK IS seen as a "Soft Touch" and the benefits are a magnet to immigrants !
Then of course to all the do gooders she is talking sh* t I suppose !

So just because an immigrant has money you automatically assume that they have received it through benefits?

[driveace]

Well Mal if you know better that the Mayor of Calais ,who states that she can understand why all the immigrants final destination is the UK.She states the benefits system is a MAGNET ,and that the UK is seen as a SOFT TOUCH !
She lives there ,and surely she knows the French system better than YOU and I !
Bet your not a UKIP or Conservative voter !

[Brown, Jon Brow]

That's the heart of the problem. People who think that money received from the government in return for no work has been earned. Fantasyland for sure.

The heart of the problem is people stereotyping all immigrants as work shy benefit scroungers and pinning all the UKs so called 'problems' on foreigners, when the statistics show that EU migrants to the UK are less likely to be unemployed than UK nationals.