If that is the case how do other countries in the EU manage to discriminate between their own native-born needy cases and foreign scroungers, so as to encourage the latter to move on?
I don't know if we really are that soft. We might read in the papers about someone with 10 children in Poland who sends their Child Benefit home and who lives in a huge house in London, mostly paid for by Housing Benefit, but I think these are quite few - if any - and there might be other circumstances that make the difference. If it were that easy, we wouldn't have...
I agree with you Mamya to a certain extent, that the rates are fixed, but don't forget that there are other sources of state income, crisis loans, housing benefit &c. How can foreign people walk around in the best trainers, carrying latest mobile, &c; something denied to those working for the minimum wage.
This says it all - move the UK to the bottom quartile of the list to foreigners, double the time for non EU, or even 5 years, and Cameron's problem solved and without all the huffing and puffing about changing the freedom of movement legislation. Put in a points system à la Australia and the US for non-EU and voilà - no need for all this rhetoric about leaving the EU. Simples as they say (I hate the expression).
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