| Mr Angry |
20-01-2015 13:21 |
Re: Revealed: thousands of Britons on benefits across EU.
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
(Post 35753811)
A set of statistics sufficiently selective from a wide cohort to be irrelevant and potentially misleading. A single benefit alongside its equivalents in Europe when welfare systems are very much different across the individual countries renders it basically meaningless.
The only really interesting part is Eire <> UK, however I feel that needs way more discussion as while, of course, Eire are a part of the EU, there are inevitably a number of factors which simply aren't present in other EU countries.
Statistics detailing full welfare receipts would be far more interesting and, I suspect, present a far more negative case, hence why the Grauniad were so selective.
Very Inverse-UKIP.
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I appreciate where you are coming from.
Yes, indeed, statistics detailing full welfare receipts would be far more interesting however, on the basis / understanding that unemployment benefits, or a version comparable to JSA, payable by EU countries to those who are unemployed is the comparator for the purposes of the survey then yes, narrow it may be, but it's also probably entirely factually correct.
Interestingly the figures quoted by Taf appear to show that a lot fewer foreign nationals are in receipt of certain benefits than some might be led to believe. |
