370,000 Migrants claim benefits.

[flip_flop]

I can't work out whether I'm shocked or unsurprised by this number!

Does this amount of migrants claiming benefits raise cause for concern?

http://www.telegraph....ants-on-the-dole.html

[Brenden]

If they work venator they are very welcome, it is the likes of those who come here solely to live off our benefits system that makes me angry.

[Anlyn]

I should point out that my answer is strictly pertinent to the question raised and my opinion is applicable only to those that migrate to our shores with the sole intention of abusing our benefits system. It annoys me that Strasbourg demands we allow this to happen and there's nothing we can do about it.

[venator]

Anlyn - You're right about the cap, but is there anything to stop them becoming "asylum seekers" or "language students"

[Anlyn]

Oh venator, asylum seekers, dont get me started!
As for students, I think the fake university scam was exposed a while back, I dont know if anything has been done about it. :0(

[anotheoldgit]

Until we have a proper censor, (not just a voluntary one as we now have, where it it up to the individual whether or not they put their name down.) we will continue to dish out benefits to all and sundry.

Everyone should be made to register and go on a national data base and then issued with an ID card, which to prevent forgery could be cross referenced with the national data base.

When applying for benefits all the person's details could be cross checked to establish whether or not the applicant was a bona fide.citizen of the UK.

[Brenden]

And if you are not on the data base - no benefits, for goodness sakes let us know exactly what the status of the country is.

[sp1814]

Lord_Elpus

Actually, I'm the child of one of those blacks who supposedly came over to leach off the state, and all I can remember seeing my mum and dad doing was working hard all their lives and viewing benefits as a source of shame.

That's what I recall from the 70s - being on the dole was a source of shame, for black, Asian and white people.

Perhaps your viewpoint is different...I can only say what I saw, coming from a very racially mixed environment.

[sp1814]

Leach?

For God's sake...

Leech.

I'm lost without spellcheck.

[sidkid]

I wonder, could someone please supply me with a list of all countries around the globe where I can emigrate to and claim benefits from. Somewhere warm and sunny would be nice......

[rov1100]

We should give them all a one way ticket to Brussels and let them sort it out. Our human rights need seeing to!

[Gromit]

I thought the Tories were supposed to sort this out when they were elected.

It is now ten times worse than under Labour.

Cameron - a big FAIL.

[naomi24]

//I can't work out whether I'm shocked or unsurprised by this number! //

I'm neither shocked nor unsurprised by this number. Just sickened.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// It is now ten times worse than under Labour. ///

I am not doubting you, seeing that I am not in possession of the figures.

So could you please oblige and produce them for us, Gromit?

[venator]

Nice to see Gromit splashing round the unsubstantiated statements.

[sp1814]

Lord_Elpus

Not so much biased, just not ignorant!

[youngmafbog]

Perhaps Gromit has been a bit on the excessive side but he has a point.

Cameron did say he would sort it out and he has not. I strongly suspect this is all to do with being tied down by the whinging liberals. He needs to tell them to shut up or he will call an election. They will be the biggest loosers whatever the outcome.

[venator]

DrFilth -
"is this the same mr grayling that was ordered to pay back all that money

i was shocked that an mp who claimed as much as he could till he got caught would be shocked over this

>>English Proverb ... The big thieves hang the little ones. <<"

I've just managed to find the article - you didn't give a link, and it doesn't bear out what you say. he was asked to repay £136, as I showed you before.

Where's that retraction?

[DrFilth]

how would anyone know the truth if they were secret

>> MPs' expenses: 17 MPs were re-elected after secret deals on expenses
More than a dozen MPs were re-elected this year without voters knowing they had struck secret deals over expenses breaches. <<



http://www.telegraph....eals-on-expenses.html