The majority of the benefits it seems being claimed are IN WORK benefits, hardly surprisingly, as many migrants are in lower paid jobs. And as those are being slashed anyway, its debatable what effect it would have financially
I don't often agree with Melanie Phillips, but she was quite right to point out that this is not likely to affect the numbers of immigrants anyway, given that most if not all don't come here to claim benefits but to work.
It beats me why the benefits issue cannot be addressed by a system of inter-government paybacks
But then you remember that this whole thing is a smokescreen in a pretty futile attempt to pacify Tory eurosceptics and keep the party together, and that the wretched EU referendum, when it comes, will not be decided on such issues, but on whether enough people in the UK feel securer and better off in the EU or out of it, regardless of a spat about a few Polish workers sending money home to their children,