[nomadking]

Originally Posted by jfman

If I check the Daily Mail there's plenty of examples of benefit scroungers from all backgrounds, so a single example isn't necessarily representative of society as a whole.

32.53 million people in work in this country contribute to millions of benefit claimants on Jobseekers, ESA, Universal Credit and PIP. That's the way the system works.

I don't shop in Eastern European shops - I can't comment on the content. It's quite irrelevant though. Some items will attract VAT, the shopkeeper will pay income tax, employ other people (again, paying tax and national insurance) -all of which are positives. Do you buy entirely British produce? Drive a British manufactured car? Or like everyone else do you buy whatever is cheapest?

6,000 from one group living in one town is not an isolated example. There are other groups, from other countries, in other towns and cities. There has been plenty of other examples in the media.




Where has the money that is spent in the shops come from? Public borrowing. Where do the profits end up, ie which country?


From 2011.

Two years ago Adrian Oprea was living with his family in a ramshackle hut in a Romanian village with only a handful of farm animals to his name.
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But Mr Oprea’s friends told him of a loophole. By selling the Big Issue magazine on the streets, he could register as “self-employed” and gain access to benefits and rights to work for his family.

Now the 24-year-old immigrant lives in a brand new house in Manchester, with eight of his relatives, with the help of the British taxpayer.**** Mr Oprea, who agreed to speak and pose for photographs because he is proud of the home he has provided for his family, said: “It’s very hard living in Romania.


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In April last year Mr Oprea was joined in Britain by his sister, Catalina, 26, and her six-year-old son, Valentin. Then in January this year Mr Oprea’s sister, Renata, 30, brother-in-law, Ionut Codrianu, 31, and their two daughters, Alexandra, 11 and Ana-Maria, 5, moved in with them.
Since September the extended family have lived in a modern, privately-rented, three-bedroom house in a new development in the Gorton area of Manchester, which has a large Romanian community.
The house came kitted out with a new kitchen and carpets. The family have a new television and DVD player, and they own a Peugeot 406 which sits on the drive.

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Of the five adults in the family, all have applied for benefits apart from Catalina, who does not work.