One million immigrants claiming benefits

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Just been reading the comments sections of the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail articles about the one million foreigners claiming benefits in the UK. It feels like the final nail in the coffin and a lot of people will feel even more justified in expressing their anger and hate towards immigrants. What happens when Reform win the next general election and come into power? Will people be rounded up en masse and put in detention centres like the USA?

Where on earth did you get those figures from? A trillion? 20% inflation? You certainly gave to be economically and fiscally illiterate to make up nonsense like that and expect other people to believe it.

That’s what u was telling her. She was saying her British child was an immigrant because she was born overseas. She isn’t. She’s British. You do hear ‘born overseas’ or ‘foreign born parent’ being used at the moment as a data collection point for foreigners, but it’s not actually accurate. Yes - my husband’s family came to the U.K. because his mother was British by descent through her father. They worked here for 5 years then applied for passports for her husband and child. Her children born here were British by birth. But 3 of my husband’s 4 grandparents were not British and the one who was had spent precious little time in the U.K. so my husband used to spend the holidays visiting family overseas and still has a passport for his country of birth. The cost of living is much lower there so if we fell on hard times we’d move there. We would expect U.K. taxpayers to fund our existence. That’s got to be a last resort otherwise the system becomes so overloaded that the U.K. becomes economically uncompetitive and everyone loses out.

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Haters are always gonna hate, and it's all too easy for the right wing media to fuel that fire.

@ RunningBlueFox
I not u! A terrible type. I should have noticed.

We aren't talking about Australia though.

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You're not coming across well at all. Maybe it's time to go outside, enjoy the sunshine

Look if you can’t do basic sums and your understanding of how the economy works is from year 8 schooling, that’s on you. You could educate yourself and then you’d actually make some sense. And be less angry and abusive.

Awww thanks. Only you could come up with something so original. Glad you’ve run out of an argument to make. Usually happens when you don’t know you’re talking about.

It will be more than a million.

You clearly have no understanding of numbers - a trillion indeed.

Don't the DWP keep track? Could you provide a link?

So they pay low levels of tax due to low wages and therefore have to be subsidised by taxpayers. We don't need more low skill workers, British people can do those jobs and should be forced to work. 25% of the working age population of Birmingham is economically inactive - that's higher than during the Great Depression.

Government spending per person is on average 17k. If they earn 30k, they pay 5k tax and receive 12k subsidy from government. This is a crazy situation - over a decade that's 120k subsidy! It's absolutely mental.

We need to deport immigrants and even pay money to them to return home. If it's costing us 12k to 17k per year on average (what about the hotels) then deporting immigrants here illegally would save a stack of cash and then a separate programme paying economic migrants to go back to their home countries would also make huge sense.

This would help with our housing shortage, NHS issues and even take cars off the road. There would be more money for doctors salaries and teachers.

I'm sorry, I didn't realise pointing out your bullshit would upset you so much

You have paid into the system for years though and are only claiming a contributions based benefit. I have had two clients recently through work who have lived here for less than five years each, came here in their fifties to work low pay jobs and now are both too ill to work. each are getting around £1400 a month in UC and PIP. They both have conditions which mean they are unlikely to work again so these will continue indefinitely. How is that affordable ? They have paid in so little and taking so much for years to come. I feel really sorry for them but I still think it is unsustainable when multiplied thousands of times. One of them also now on the list for social housing and will likely need housing for the foreseeable future. I don't understand how people heading towards mid fifties when there is an increased chance of illness are granted work visas in the first place ?

Still struggling to string an argument together? What a surprise.

Don't worry there will be a labour luvvie along shortly to tell you its all in your mind.

We are 52.6% net receivers - its not sustainable and we are just kidding ourselves if we want to pretend the majority of those are single parent nurses with 2 kids or severely disabled people.

You have to hope it gets better but I do wonder how the uk is going to come back from this current state

Aww still abusive and angry I see. You’ll get over it, but you’d have to educate yourself. Alas.

Rejoin the EU.

I have absolutely no idea why people keep perpetuating this myth.

So we don't give out visas?

@BallerinaRadio is right on point.
what short memories people have; where is the 3 million a week going back into the NHS.
Reform are playing fantasy politics and we can see it unravelling through their inexperienced Elected Members who have quit the role.

What about the wealthiest of people who continue to hoard their extreme wealth? This should be the focus. Meanwhile the right wing press are pitting the most marginalised people in society to create a moral panic whilst the wealthy continue to exploit.

Since 2007 America's GDP per capita has grown in real terms 37% whilst ours has shrunk 2%.

Our wages are now 40% lower than America's wages, 20 years ago there was only a 10% difference.

Net Zero and our crazy immigration policies are key reasons why the UK is getting poorer and poorer.

If they were paid a proper wage then they wouldn’t need to be claiming in work benefits, that’s half the problem.