Where is the UK headed?

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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.

You might want to remember that, while most of the discussion has been about immigrants, I did not specify them. Malbec noted a couple posts above about the total, not just immigrant, benefit problem. Any system that pays to people for sitting around is doomed long term. Despite various reform attempts, we have a similar problem here. Paying even more for people not citizens or not actually in the country is madness.