Soft Touch Britain?

200,000 Migrants from Eastern Europe receiving job seekers allowance

Migration Watch.co.uk

Thursday January 8,2009

By Nick Fagge

 

THOUSANDS of Eastern European migrants who lose their jobs plan to ride out the recession on British 
benefits – costing taxpayers around £200million a year.

 

Up to 200,000 migrant workers are set to lose their jobs this year as firms lay off staff in the construction, manufacturing and retail industries. But while some young single workers are expected to return home, many others are likely to stay in the UK and ask their relatives to join them.

 

They are keen to take advantage of Government handouts which are four times higher than in other EU states.

 

The average family with children can claim around £715 a week in benefits in Britain, compared with just £178 in countries such as Poland.

 

Hungarian coffee shop owner Tamas Fekte, 29, who lives in Cambridge, said: “I would never move home. The benefits here are so much better.”

 

Last night there was anger at the research which shows that British taxpayers are facing a new benefits burden. Mark Wallace, of the Tax­Payers’ Alliance, said:

 

“The British benefits system is meant to be a safety net for British nationals who have fallen on hard times.

“Instead, due to Government laxity and EU rules, it has become a honeypot tempting people to take advantage of the taxpayers’ generosity.”

 

Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green mocked Immigration Minister Phil Woolas’s recent claims to be cracking down on foreign benefit claimants. He said: “Phil Woolas said entitlement to benefits should be for citizens of our country, not other people. We now see this was just more hot air from this dishonest Government.”

 

Latest Home Office figures reveal 895,000 eastern Europeans have been allowed to work in the UK since the EU expanded to include former Eastern Bloc nations – Estonia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

 

Of those officially registered, 199,677 are now in receipt of state hand-outs, including child benefit, job­seekers allowance and housing support. Whilst official figures show just 11,607 have returned to their country of origin.

 

However, the figures, which only cover up to September last year, do not take into account the economic decline of the last few months and the massive job losses it will bring. In August 2007 there were 112,000 Eastern Euro­peans claiming UK benefits, costing taxpayers £125million a year. That bill is now expected to soar to an esti­mated £200million.

 

Recruitment agencies specialising in supplying Polish labour have noted a dramatic fall in jobs in the UK and at home, leading many to bring their families to Britain.

 

Tom Wlodarski, of the East of England Polish Community Organisation, said: “Families are staying on as they feel it is better to ride out the recession here in England.”

 

Urszula Jukes, owner of Polish recruitment agency Access Europe, said: “For many the answer is to bring their family here where they can support them with the higher UK wages and Government support. Families are almost always better off as there is the generous welfare state.”

 

Last night the Home Office claimed that the number of Eastern European migrants coming to work in Britain had fallen to “its lowest level” since 2004.

 

And the Department of Work and Pension claimed that only a small number of East Europeans had applied for jobseekers allowance and income support.

 

What do you make of these latest figures? Do they justify the UK allowing 28.9% of all Eastern European migrants to come over into the UK when over 20% of them (22.3%) are on benefits as of September 2008?

the benefits system needs an overhaul - it should be that you only get out what you pay in....and this isn't only for immigrants, either.... if you've never worked - you don't get money apart from bare-bones-basic living allowances. For too long Britain has paid the idle.

 

If you've worked for a year - you should get a tenth of what someone who works 10 years would get and so on. Surely it's common sense that someone who's worked all their lives should receive more than someone who's maybe worked a month here or a month there?

 

It'd stop people thinking benefits is the easy way out. Which they absolutely do - my job is working with unemployed 18-24 year olds (some older)..... many of these think travelling 20 miles to work is absolutely out of the question. Public transport? Cold dark early mornings? Toiling? Why should they when they earn a decent enough living by not contemplating employment. And the girls are the worst - their option, and many, many take it, is pregnancy - if the dole comes down too heavy on them.... voila - have a baby! Dole off their back in an instant - and benefits from all angles :blink:

 

As for these immigrants - if they've worked here for just a few months - they should get very very little.... why should anyone, regardless of where they're from, take money from a pot they haven't paid into?

the benefits system needs an overhaul - it should be that you only get out what you pay in....and this isn't only for immigrants, either.... if you've never worked - you don't get money apart from bare-bones-basic living allowances. For too long Britain has paid the idle.

 

If you've worked for a year - you should get a tenth of what someone who works 10 years would get and so on. Surely it's common sense that someone who's worked all their lives should receive more than someone who's maybe worked a month here or a month there?

 

It'd stop people thinking benefits is the easy way out. Which they absolutely do - my job is working with unemployed 18-24 year olds (some older)..... many of these think travelling 20 miles to work is absolutely out of the question. Public transport? Cold dark early mornings? Toiling? Why should they when they earn a decent enough living by not contemplating employment. And the girls are the worst - their option, and many, many take it, is pregnancy - if the dole comes down too heavy on them.... voila - have a baby! Dole off their back in an instant - and benefits from all angles :blink:

 

As for these immigrants - if they've worked here for just a few months - they should get very very little.... why should anyone, regardless of where they're from, take money from a pot they haven't paid into?

 

 

The devil is (always) in the detail. But I 100% agree with these sentiments.

 

This latest data from the independent Migrant watch organisation is a propaganda "wet" dream for the ultra repulsive BNP. But this is entirely the fault of the soft touch Labour administration whom have allowed the Liberal "diversity" do-gooders pen pushers sway over common sense. We all saw this coming when we opened the borders a few years ago, but the so called experts said that not as many Eastern Europeans would come over to the UK, and then "if" an economic downturn occurred they would leave the country.

 

These figures clear show that was a sickeningly gross lie (just 11,607 out of 895,000 have returned home) because our Social system is a complete joke and soft touch thanks to the idiots who have set up & run the system since the Conservatives lost power which favours the professional skivvers & sicknotes to enable them to continue drinking, gambling & eating to excess, lazy teenage scroungers, pregnant mums & foreign freeloaders at the expense of the "working" classes.

For too long Britain has paid the idle.

 

I think that's a polite way of putting it. Working class people who make an honest living only ever benefit what they put into whereas the underclass reap the benefits paid fpr in taxes made by people in work.

 

 

Edited January 8, 200916 yr by ScottyEm

The devil is (always) in the detail. But I 100% agree with these sentiments.

 

This latest data from the independent Migrant watch organisation is a propaganda "wet" dream for the ultra repulsive BNP. But this is entirely the fault of the soft touch Labour administration whom have allowed the Liberal "diversity" do-gooders pen pushers sway over common sense. We all saw this coming when we opened the borders a few years ago, but the so called experts said that not as many Eastern Europeans would come over to the UK, and then "if" an economic downturn occurred they would leave the country.

 

These figures clear show that was a sickeningly gross lie (just 11,607 out of 895,000 have returned home) because our Social system is a complete joke and soft touch thanks to the idiots who have set up & run the system since the Conservatives lost power which favours the professional skivvers & sicknotes to enable them to continue drinking, gambling & eating to excess, lazy teenage scroungers, pregnant mums & foreign freeloaders at the expense of the "working" classes.

 

I always find your readings well-written and articulate, have you ever thought of journalism as a career option?

the benefits system needs an overhaul - it should be that you only get out what you pay in....and this isn't only for immigrants, either.... if you've never worked - you don't get money apart from bare-bones-basic living allowances. For too long Britain has paid the idle.

 

If you've worked for a year - you should get a tenth of what someone who works 10 years would get and so on. Surely it's common sense that someone who's worked all their lives should receive more than someone who's maybe worked a month here or a month there?

 

It'd stop people thinking benefits is the easy way out. Which they absolutely do - my job is working with unemployed 18-24 year olds (some older)..... many of these think travelling 20 miles to work is absolutely out of the question. Public transport? Cold dark early mornings? Toiling? Why should they when they earn a decent enough living by not contemplating employment. And the girls are the worst - their option, and many, many take it, is pregnancy - if the dole comes down too heavy on them.... voila - have a baby! Dole off their back in an instant - and benefits from all angles :blink:

 

As for these immigrants - if they've worked here for just a few months - they should get very very little.... why should anyone, regardless of where they're from, take money from a pot they haven't paid into?

 

with you 100% russ :)