[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Osem

We've done far too much of that, I believe - confering rights without responsibilities or expectations - allowing the majority of hardworking and decent people to be increasingly put upon in order to accommodate the wants and desires of a minority who contribute little or nothing to society and refuse to behave responsibly. Those who need help/support should get it. Those who choose to ride on the back of the system should be shown up for what they are and have concessions removed not added to. Those who come here to contribute to our society should be welcomed. Those who come here purely to abuse the system and even undermine their host society should never be given citizenship (or have it removed) and should be deported. We cannot soak up the world's needy or allow 'asylum' to continue to be a byword for economic migration. There will always be those undeserving who're able to exploit any system but right now ours is far too relaxed about the abuse it's being subjected to whether that be the hordes queueing up in Calais or those who come here under clearly false pretences and then cynically commence a systematic abuse of the asylum/welare system. Refuge, opportunity and welfare here should be earned and seen as a reward not as an entitlement to anyone who wants it.