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?

I’ve been harassed by many British men so what is your point exactly?

Just this really. Noone is talking about how the money and prosperity our country has was gained by raping and pillaging other countries and creating an empire that stole the resources of other countries and got slaves to do the work. Surely it's only right that we share some of our ill gotten gains with people that need it after what we did in the past.
We can't even give back historical artifacts that we stole, our museums are stuffed full of them. It makes me sick and I'm not proud to say I'm British when I go abroad.

You also possibly drive away in your car to a house in a leafier, nicer little village or area away from your diverse school, and aren't walking home alone through the park or the town centre, or witnessing what the girls have to put up with on their walk home?

I love teachers and don't mean that as an attack, but there's plenty that you don't generally see.

Don't bother adding to this thread, just another goady post.

OP is so ‘anxious’ that he/she couldn't sleep, posting at 1.15am and never returned!

What a surprise!

I live in an almost 100% white town in Suffolk. My DDs have been harrassed by men on the way to and from school when they still lived here - white, British men. The problem is men.

Indeed they are a scourge.

So free house, healthcare, £50 per week pp. £300 maternity grant. Free school meals and education. That quite a lot of free that we are paying for.

About 60% of white English people have Celtic DNA so not sure if co-opted is the right word.

I’m not sure any of what you describe is under threat threat. I don’t know about Wales but in English regions ways of speaking and mannerisms have changed over time regardless of immigration. The Museum of London (I think?) used to have recordings of people over many years and actors voicing, for example, Elizabethan accents. Culture, language. It changes. I don’t quite know what’s so frightening about that to people who will not be here to see it. I guess it’s a sense of mortality, people maybe feel they live on in their traditions and beliefs.

@PreciousMomentsHun I said I grew up as one of the few white children in my class and I haven’t left the area. No, I do not live in a leafy middle class area. I live in a deprived city. DH and I could have moved out to the outskirts but the city is home to us. I’m not blind to social issues - I grew up in poverty. To me, the people who complain the loudest about these issues, are those people who have just started to see them.

Half of these 1 million are working and 700 000 of them are eu citizens who arrived here before brexit. I assume they work in minimum wage jobs and were caught out by the cost of living crisis like all of us.

People would do well to remember that usually minimum wage job means the jobs that are absolutely essential to the smooth running of society.

I would bet good money that the benefit of these 500 000 immigrants doing the work they do out weighs the benefits they claim. In all probability we are probably getting a pretty good deal here.

I don't mind people, immigrants claiming benefits but what I don't like is all the fraud and fake English schools getting people into uni or UK with fake certificates or fake marriages, fake illness and so on.

In some cultures bribery and corruption is an expected part of business, we need to wise up.

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It’s possible he’s a victim of trafficking rather than the ‘money laundering immigrant’ you suggest.

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Can we stop saying “immigrant” please?
we are not one homogeneous mass.

My dad was asked to come here as he had a sought after skill that the uk wanted. He came and faced a lot of racism and not the experience he was sold.

im first gen. And I work.

Tha language o to dehumanise us is shocking.

I like Britain. It’s not a country in decline. Yes it has problems. But some are as a result of govt ideology not the black and brown people.

https://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/news-and-press-releases/2025/london-get-ps117bn-social-and-affordable-homes-programme-funding

30% of housing funding going to London

I personally don't care if there are 10,000 refugees claiming benefits - to gain refugee status is an arduous process fraught with uncertainty, and these are traumatised people. I'm proud that, as a country, the UK can offer refugee status.

Why don’t you stop listening to racist rhetoric and agreeing with it?

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Exactly. I’m so sick of hearing all this dehumanising racist shit all over the place. So fucking ignorant! It’s really boiling my piss.

@Pinkfluffypencilcase I agree so hard.

As for the poster who thinks they are able to identify non-British people solely by their name - bullshit to that. I work for the NHS and so I know many doctors and nurses with foreign names. Born in the UK, to naturalised parents, therefore fully British.

If you think 'British' means 'White', you're a racist. Plain and simple.

According to the UC stats referred to by the telegraph/DM 86.4% of UC claimants are British and Irish nationals

The percentage reported was 83.6% British and Irish nationals.

the most applications for asylum in 2024 were from people from Pakistan. Why? There is no war going on over there. No natural disasters.

Most Pakistani people I know tend to have multiple trips “home” a year.

why don’t you stop gaslighting , belittling and shouting people down.
the numbers don’t lie- the county is broke, it is also broken .

Wandering around are they? Whatever next?!