Shouldn't Cameron Put A Stop On This Rather Than Worrying About Gay Marriages?

[pdq1]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273002/Migrants-handed-1m-week-children-home-thousands-British-families-stripped-THEIR-child-benefit.html#axzz2JvrTO8Nm

Only 4 countries in the EU have similar arrangements to Britain about paying for immigrant children left in their home country. Wouldn't this be an opportune moment when we are orgamising our welfare benefit bill to include this anomoly?

[pdq1]

Sorry, didn't realise it had been posted earlier

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1213611.html

[Old_Geezer]

Yeah but discussing a paradox is so much more fun.

[sp1814]

pdq1

What other initiatives could the government give up so it can concentrate on this issue?

Why not the cycle-to-work scheme?

Or the midata initiative?

Or tackling obesity?

Or the National Child Measurement Programme?

Or the analysis of controls on the marketing and promotion of food and drink to children?

Or the 'The Third Evaluation of the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme'?

How much time do you think David Cameron actually puts into the subject of marriage equality?

Do you think that perhaps, that policy initiative is in the domain of Lynne
Featherstone'a office, and that issues arising from immigration and benefits are more appropriately handled by the Homes Office?

[Canary42]

Cameron wants to marry Clegg - that's why he's so keen.

[emmie]

they want to get divorced don't you mean, and are wrangling over the minutiae, you know gay marriage, immigration, EU, and all sorts...

[sp1814]

em10

Isn't marriage equality the one thing that Clegg and Cameron absolutely agree with?

[pdq1]

Now that Huhme has resigned I don't think their will be much love lost when the Tories capture his seat.

[sp1814]

'agree on'!

[emmie]

not sure what these two do agree on, they have swivelled, turned and obfuscated so much no one knows...

[modeller]

Do you think DC might appoint him for prison reform . Maybe it's all a LIB/DEM scheme to get one of theirs on the inside.

[emmie]

rather an awkward way to do it if so?

[lady-janine]

read this and was disgusted. they should not get any benefits once they are not in this country.

[emmie]

LJ, who?

[emmie]

LJ, from the link

UK payments relate to cases where migrants have moved to Britain, but left their children at home. When they arrive in the UK, they register with HM Revenue & Customs for the benefit.

The money is then paid direct to them, so it can be sent home. The children do not have to live in the UK or even have visited.

[ummmm]

When my daughter moved to Ireland her child benefit stopped.