One million immigrants claiming benefits

[AnxiousApocalypse]

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?

@TheHateIsNotGood it make me a bit sad that people don’t understand our history - which has been shaped by invasion and immigration since the dawn of time

reminds me of the Blackadder scene ‘I’m as English as Queen Victoria’ … ‘so your dad’s German, your mum’s German and you’re half German’

And you married a German!

Ha yes! 😂

Genuinely interested in what type of Spanish Celt you are and what aspects of your Celtic culture you uphold and preserve.

We're not allowed to talk about things like this though or we get called racist.

I know several immigrants who refuse to work. They love taking the tax payers hard-earned money though.

@ghostyslovesheets and @randomchap -yes! But then I'm a Jacobite and my Mum or Grandma were Italian.💑

A lot of Celtic traditions have been co opted by English culture so are similar but not the same. Mainly Christian festivals which took over the pagan festivals (seeing an uptick in that though).

I think for me the biggest thing is food, Welsh cakes on the griddle is something we all adore. It’s also (again not tangible) but a ‘way of the person’. Like northerners and southerners in England there’s a difference in personality that isn’t tangible but you know it’s there - mannerisms, way of speaking etc.

And I’m sure there are native brits also refusing to work.

Everything community related in areas im talking about such as Hounslow, Slough, Southall, all residential areas and not tourist spots either, are abandoned or to ruin which is the case for most places like this. The churches if they even exist are run down and overgrown, the pubs are mostly closed and just kept alive by the small amount of british people living in the area. Neighbours might say hi from time to time but take any walk down the high street not a chance. Lots of people haven't really experienced or lived in areas like this, most people i know who share this opinion that it isn't a problem, live in the most upper class white areas known to man yet preach that it is all positive (not saying you do).

Strongly agree. I’ve had many hostile responses for my experience I’ve outlined.

I went from a run down city to a Cotswold village and its night and day in terms of social cohesion and lack of awareness of failed social cohesion.

We're in a liberal democracy. That means we believe in the right to vote, civil rights and the rule of law.

The majority party has consistently been the Tories who aren't left leaning by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, the state of the country could be blamed on them and not foreigners.

Regarding speaking English:
Previous governments cut funding for English speaking classes

regarding asylum seekers in hotels: Processing was slowed down on purpose to hold applicants in limbo.

re working: asylum seekers are not allowed to work

Re illegal immigrants: there’s in such thing. Asylum seekers have to be in the U.K. to be able to claim asylum.

Of course but any immigrant should want to give back to the country they are part of. Whole communities identities are being lost because of lots of new immigrants moving in to the area. If new immigrants moving in were respectful too and wanted to integrate I wouldn't mind, but it's not happening from what I can see.

The Vikings came on boats.....

The scale of the change the last 10-20 years has been unprecedented. BorisWave on its own has completely changed the make up of towns practically overnight, even if leafy towns and villages of middle England remain untouched. Therefore they don't see it.

The British people have shown remarkable tolerance at the level of demographic change we've seen in our lifetimes. Patience has snapped at the lack of border control, the sheer numbers and the lack of integration from recent immigration.

And the Romans and the Normans with their eye arrows

It was the Tories that opened the borders to unprecedented immigration numbers. There was nothing conservative about them.

And I get told I'm being racist because I don't want to bankroll immigrants. The people who have left their womenfolk in dangerous places. They often come from places where disrespect to women is rife, where sexual assault and rape is rife. I don't want men who have been brought up in cultures thinking that is ok living in my community. No thank you.

And they do want to give back.

I know of asylum seekers volunteering in care homes, charity shops and homeless charities. Whilst they are held in limbo awaiting a decision. Some waiting 10 years. Speed up the process and let these people contribute like they want to.

I imagine the numbers of migrants coming here to the UK would massively reduce if they were not entitled to any benefits whatsoever until they'd been here and contributed for many years. Also they should not be granted social housing.
You cannot blame anyone one for wanting to come and live here, if your giving it away then they're obviously going to come and take it.

You don't believe that suppressing wages by importing cheap labour is Tory?

It us not a matter of differing opinions. It is people claiming facts with no evidence.

But don't let that stop you. On you go.

The country is swamped in debt and there is more to come due to the deficit. Surely stopping benefits for migrants would prevent the numbers turning up.
I am not against benefits by the way, I am against raising our taxes to give to people from the rest of the world and I am also against our pensioners struggling whilst those who turn up on our shores are having everything handed to them immediately.
I am not against migration either, but at the current levels with no checks at all it is dangerous.

Thank you.
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Why do British people completely ignore it?
Britain created poverty and I stability all over the world , not just the middle east, whilst getting rich pillaging other countries.
It's no surprise that the people now seek to come here from their now poor and asset stripped countries .

Many are though. You're very hardworking and it's immigrants like you who are welcome.