Osborne.

[BayBoy1]

Osborne hits back at critics about his new welfare plans, saying critics are talking a lot of ill - informed rubbish .Pot and Kettle come to mind.???

[emmie]

whilst i am at the coal face of change, it does need it, however it's all changed very quickly, people haven't and won't have time to adjust, i certainly haven't. Pot kettle maybe, what i would like to see happen is no hand out at all for those who enter Britain, none until they have worked a full five years, i am aware of all the pit falls of that, but if you can't support yourself, have a permanent job before coming here, and a place to live, then don't allow them in. That of course won't happen, with regards to the EU who would tell us that it can't and won't happen that way. We should have been putting our own citizens first, those who have paid into the system, call it what you will, those who have proved they have been an asset to Britain, not someone who just dumped themselves here looking at us as a soft touch. Then stop the benefit changes until they can sort it through properly, many of these massive changes will have an impact on families, and those who are not in a good financial position, make it fair by all means, but don't punish those who have worked hard all their lives and now need some help..
Of course this isn't about to happen any day soon, but one can hope.
Some see that it's all about the dole scroungers getting a free ride, well some do, but some have lost jobs, have families to feed, and not sat on their backsides but gone and looked for work, been there and done that.
sure there a million other things one could think of, but it's early, i have a truly awful cold, and going to sink into oblivion any moment, have a good day..

[youngmafbog]

Well I can't stand the man either, but he is right many of them are simply because they don't like change.

All politicians spout rubbish, get used to it.

[BayBoy1]

em 10 very very well said, its just a great pity that the MP S, who are making the rules ,will never ever feel the pinch ,and spend the rest of their lives living in the lap of luxury at the expense of others.

[Gromit]

Most of the immigrants from eastern Europe are not highly skilled people who the country need. They are unskilled and doing jobs that British people could do but won't. Employers want them because they are reliable, hard working and cheap. These workers (and they are net taxpayers) are on low wages and get benefits for housing and child support.

If they did not get enough to live on they would go home (Many have). Employers would have to increase wages to get the British to do them (there is still no guarantee they would take the jobs). The rsult would be that prices in the shops would increase. For home grown food probably very significantly increase.

[emmie]

you obviously don't live in the capital, i see beggars on our streets, many are not born and bred Brits but from Africa, Eastern Europe, same for where relatives live, we have inherited a load of people who we can't support, some who got here illegally, some who have no intention of going home, some indeed who know that stay for a short time, get yourself a NI number and wait till the cash rolls in, not to mention hospital treatment, GP, and so forth, please don't keep on saying how first the British are lazy, won't work, and that all the people who have rolled in recent days are so wonderful as workers. We shouldn't be importing any more people, and certainly not unskilled, if we need skilled workers then fine, i can understand that. But why have we got so many of our own young people out of work, tales of them sending in CV after CV, and getting nothing in return, Graduates with good degrees doing nothing, why? makes no sense at all to have more incomers, not until our own financial system starts to get better, if it ever does. If we have overcrowded homes, and overcrowded job market, too many people for those homes, jobs, why do we need more.

[Zeuhl]

/no hand out at all for those who enter Britain/

/i see beggars on our streets, many are not born and bred Brits but from Africa, Eastern Europe/

presumably em, the beggars are on the street precisely because they are not receiving benefits

or taking British jobs

[emmie]

but why if they had no prospects, no job to come to, did they come here, how did they get in, and indeed why do they stay. If they are illegal which i suspect is the case, can they not approach the police or some place where they can be sent back. I see more and more of them, on every street corner, either selling the Big Issue, sorry that's a big con, or getting their children to beg, how can that be right...
all the while the capital is filling up, and with the prospect of 2014 and more coming, being allowed to stay, that does not fill me with any hope that immigration will be kept under control. Sorry but i have no idea why anyone would go anywhere if you don't have a firm job offer and a place to stay, i wouldn't, and couldn't.