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Originally Posted by Mick
Utter nonsense, you have Eastern EU citizens flocking here mainly from Romania, Bulgaria. Most do not work and just scrounge from the benefit system, This may be prosperous to them but not us when they're robbing and stealing from UK Nationals. Only the other day, my sister was telling me about one of her friends being approached by two Romanian women, they employed distraction tactics to try pickpocket her, but she knew their game they were playing and just pushed their hands away.
It was a massive mistake allowing Romania to join the EU.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...oners-EU-jails |
Most do work Mick, there is no automatic entitlement to benefits when people move to another EU country. People can be sent back if they do not have the means to support themselves financially and this does happen. Liverpool recently sent back some street beggars.
Whether allowing Romania to join the EU or not is a different debate but maybe one you feel more comfortable with than with discussing the increased prosperity membership has brought the UK.
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After becoming an EEC member, Britain slowly began to catch up. Gross domestic product per person has grown faster than Italy, Germany and France in the 42 years since. By 2013, Britain became more prosperous than the average of the three other large European economies for the first time since 1965.
Professor Nauro Campos of Brunel University has estimated how Britain would have fared if it had not joined the common market. He and his colleagues found the best approximation to Britain’s pre-1973 economic performance to be a combination of New Zealand and Argentina, which like the UK fell behind the US and continental Europe.
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https://www.ft.com/ or google "What has the EU done for the UK?"