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?

How has the whole fabric of society changed?

Oh, I do.

The rich have always stayed rich by making the poor fight amongst themselves.

If there were only sincere people in the country there wouldn’t be many left.

They are.

You make me sick too. Im sick to death of you and your kind spreading bigotry and disinformation off the back of VAWAG. You're weaponising gender based violence to suit your agenda. Surely you follow Tommy Robinson? He advertises all the marches to 'protect women'.

No other European country is so generous to illegal immigrants

Illegal immigrants aren't entitled to anything in the UK.

Even plenty of legal immigrants have no recourse to public funds.

Im interested by this, so we dont pay towards their food and accommodation whilst they're being processed, and then once approved they can't claim benefits?

Not for illegal immigrants, no. They're not entitled to anything.

They’re not illegal until they’re processed and their claim fails. If it succeeds they’re not illegal.

Irish citizens and immigrants from many commonwealth countries can vote in general elections. The rules are different for council elections, and I don't know what they are post-Brexit, but pre-Brexit citizens of some EU countries could vote in them.

As evidenced by ex pats in Spain returning to vote for Brexit.

Because they have the right to appeal and ones their claim is in court they can remain.

you have to be british to vote in general elections, eu- local elections.

This 100%
Keep us occupied with a scapegoat!

They are. They're put up in hotels. They're fed and watered. I read they were given free gym memberships somewhere.

Not sure how it is now but during brexit any new eu immigrants couldnt claim anything for the first 6 months from coming here and they had to show proof they have been working for 6 months.

Free food? Who shops for this? How do they make sure it's food that asylum seekers know how to cook? What's the source for this? Or are you perhaps making this up??

You’re also in the park…do you work?
asylum seekers are not allowed to work, they survive on a pittance.
Also ‘lounge around in the sun?’ For the 2 days a year we have sun? Have a day off.

But I am also really worried about illegal immigration. We know nothing about this people. They had some money to come all the way here. Quite a bit indeed. Meanwhile, a widow with 4 children, injured and now pregnant, after witnessing the muder of her husband and being raped in front of her children, is stuck in Sudan. Under fire and beyond starving. Because she has no money to leave. And UK's foreign budget has been decimated by guys on a boat.
I am sure some of the illegal boats are running from a horrible place. But quite a few did have enough money to pay gangs to make it all the way here.
It is complex. And it needs to stop.
Legal immigration is what we need. That is good, regulated, does not load on the system and many of them are skilled workers.

Around 1.5% of claimants were refugees and 0.7% had arrived in the UK via safe routes such as those for Ukrainians and Afghans.

, 83.6% were British and Irish nationals.

Refugees and asylum seekers constitute a relatively small proportion of overall immigration.

In 2024, they accounted for around 16% of immigrants.

They’re not illegal until their claim has been processed and failed.