I understand there is an EU mechanism for an emergency brake on migration and, if so, maybe we should trigger it.
Whilst there are plenty of things wrong with our internal systems and procedures, I don't see anything wrong with blaming those who chose to come here deliberately to exploit them, whether that be benefit and housing claimants, health tourists or indeed people who come and immediately set about having children despite having no job and no prospects. Why would anyone do that except for triggering the extra benefits and entitlements (e.g.g housing) which some with children? The system of free movement coupled with our benefit system exacerbates this problem and no matter what we do, unless we embark on the sort of tough reforms of our welfare, legal, health services many of us wouldn't wish to see, we are going to be unable to prevent large scale abuse of the system be people who've never contributed a thing and whose only motivation is to get something for nothing. Even then, with fake documents easy to obtain, who's going to be able to check entitlement with any degree of certainty?
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Originally Posted by nomadking
I didn't pick on one group or another. It's just there was a TV prog where a couple came over with 22 children and grandchildren. The programme also said there were 6,000 other Czech Roma in Rotherham. I was giving it as a TRUE AND REAL example. They were all getting housed and claiming benefits.
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Correct and it's happening all over the place.