Don't like Farage but..

[TheBlueKoala]

I do agree with him that foreign nationals shouldn't be able to claim benefits and to scrap PIP for mild mental health issues. And that the money saved should go into mental health care so that everyone with mild mental health problems can access NHS care rapidly.

The solution here was always to invest in mental health services so that you could catch these young people early, intervene and help them. But of course health service cuts under the previous government put paid to that.

What I always wonder about is why people going on about the benefit bill never mention getting rid of the triple lock? It's always the young who get bashed (and before anyone says anything, I'm old).

Triple look needs to go but Farage and all the rest of them know they would lose votes if they campaign to get rid of the triple lock. The grey vote is still a powerful voting block, and younger people don’t really understand what the triple lock is or care about it.

Look at what happened when Labour tried to cut the winter fuel allowance. Removing the triple lock would be electoral suicide.

I also think it's because everyone else has already been squeezed! The Cameron Tory/LibDem coalition brought in the student fees - those first people are not so young now and have many other responsibilities. They also brought forward the later age for women to retire - quite suddenly. They also sold off Royal Mail for a price that benefitted their cronies but not the British public.

Like Canada, Australia and the USA. Those well known pariah states. Each treaty and international body has both advantages and disadvantages if we remain subject to them. Not everyone always agrees that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages and depends on both how it affects you, your family and your business and to a certain extent how much you believe individual countries sovereignty matters. Not totally up to date on Reforms position but I believe they would take us out of the ECHR as would the Conservative Party. Only pointing out that once in power the government does have the power to take any actions it sees fit if it believes it would be advantageous, I am not commenting on every aspect of international law although I’m in favour of reforming ECHR or leaving.

NOBODY can claim PIP for “mild issues”. I do hope this clarifies things for you. And as to benefits as a whole, immigrants in the UK are net contributors to the UK economy thanks to them paying their taxes, unlike Nigel’s cronies. So why shouldn’t they use the benefits their taxes are paying towards when they need to do so?

They are not in Europe

All the major democracies in Europe signed up to the ECHR.

What is it that you don't like about it?

The concept of not allowing foreign nationals to claim benefits no matter how long they have worked and contributed is completely against the British value of fairness. Why should I not get benefits when a British person who has never worked does? I've been here almost 29 years. This policy is blatant xenophobia, and the people who think it is acceptable - well, fill in the blanks.