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Originally Posted by Hugh
Course you have - let me guess, you can’t discuss these ‘roles’...
I have experience of violent racist thugs (BNP and EDL), but, strangely enough, I do not make the assumption that they represent all, or even the majority, of Brits, so don’t judge all Brits on the inappropriate behaviour of a few.
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I have experience of 'the behaviour' of many immigrants through various roles, such as voluntary work, management committees, sub committees, past & present jobs etc.
What a lot do to get round the no Jobseekers Allowance for three months rule (in non Universal Credit areas) is to become 'self employed' for 16 hours a week on a tiny income e.g. taxi drivers claiming to work for £1 an hour or scrap metal dealers who say they hardly find anything. This entitles them to claim Child Benefit, maximum Tax Credits, Council Tax Reduction, Housing Benefit etc.
This is why Camerons Government made changes to how Universal Credit is administered ie if the self employed don't earn above a notional threshold after a year, benefit is terminated.
In addition, his Government restricted the amount of children who could be claimed for to two and increased the minimum wage, so that those in legitimate remunerative work would be able to claim less.
Don't forget that some of these children have never set foot in the UK.
As the EU require EU immigrants and British people to be treated the same, this also applied to people here too and is causing problems, something that Mrs May's Government has promised to look into.
Your wife (or one of here colleagues) may be able to confirm exactly what's been going on.
Another issue that I have is the EU reciprocal arrangements for healthcare. EU visitors are allowed the same treatment afforded to natives of the relevant country. Those coming here can avail themselves of our NHS, yet if we go to their countries where free healthcare is limited or non existant, we have to pay.
We are being taken for a ride simply because we provide free healthcare, which hardly encourages Governments to provide this.