stretch wrote:YES some come for work the poles great people but for every 1 pole there are 10 scroungers from the rest of the world
OK. Back that up with facts instead of just bigotry!
stretch wrote:YES some come for work the poles great people but for every 1 pole there are 10 scroungers from the rest of the world
Sorry, but you're actually contradicting yourself. The truth, is somewhere in the middle. Personally, I don't like the fact that 66% (if that is the figure) of immigrants receiving in-work benefits, primarily tax credits and housing benefits (and think how much that costs in London alone) are actually being subsidised by the British Tax payer. And it's that subsidy that is the draw to both the immigrants and the employers, who avoid 'employer' costs (tax, NiNo conts) as a consequence of offering reduced hours work only at the level of the minimum wage. In return the immigrants get a not unsubstantial roof over their head, in many instances, far better than what they have left behind and largely paid for by the state. Now, I'm not actually blaming the immigrants for that, excluding the ones that do come here to defraud the system, but for me, it's self-evidently wrong. I happen to think the employer should pay a living wage, which should be coming into being soon, thus, labour won't be so cheap in future and it will be interesting to see how that changes things.HHTel wrote:Of those immigrants in the UK who claim some sort of benefit, 66% are also in work. The vast majority of claimants are British and rightly so. It's a myth that all or most of immigrants to Britain/Europe are there to claim welfare. The complete opposite is true.