It comes as no surprise to me that benefit tourism does not exist. They cannot be taking local jobs (a charge with some substance to it) and claiming out-of-work benefits, can they? They have not been here long enough to know how to do that.
Meanwhile, it turns out that the predicted savings from the Bedroom Tax were based on pure bunk, and that its main effect has been to drive Housing Benefit claimants, most of whom are in work, out of inexpensive social housing and into the wildly expensive private rented sector, taking their entitlement with them.
No resignations are expected.
How touchingly credulous of you to take the European Commission's word as gospel.
ReplyDeleteThey are the ones pushing free movement of EU citizens so they're hardly an objective source.
They should try explaining to our taxpayers that 600,000"economically inactive" EU citizens here is "not much".
Just like that fraud Miliband should try explaining to our hard-pressed households why he pushed up their energy bills by £120 a year by introducing whopping green levies as Energy Minister.
I see Labour are now snapping at the Tories heels.
Tristram Hunt has copied Gove's free schools policy.Rachel Reeves now says she'll be even tougher than IDS on long-term unemployed.
They see which way the wind is blowing.
They are like children snapping at the heels of the adults.
Nurse! Nurse!
ReplyDeleteYes, the wind is blowing towards a Labour majority of over 80.
And benefits tourism does not exist. No one whom the Government has put up today has been able to answer that. It is just not there.
More British nationals claiming benefits in Spain than there are all other EU nationals claiming benefits in the UK.
ReplyDelete"Labour majority of over 80"
ReplyDeleteWho but a complete clown would care about that?
Patriots aren't bothered whether Tweedledumb or Dumber are in-or out.
Of course, five years of that rabble in power would be the best thing that could happen to the Tories.
The adults will just be called back in to clean up the economic mess the children left behind-as in 2010.
You mean EU "benefits tourism" (the Commission's figure refers only to EU migrants).
However, 600,000 economically inactive EU residents in Britain sounds pretty touristy to me.
Can they send us a postcard?
Read that comment from the start to the end. Was it all written by the same person? If so, then how?
ReplyDeleteNot the same anonymous as previously.
ReplyDeleteAnti-political people should creep back under the stone from wence they came.