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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
The benefits system is there...and it is the fault of the government if people come here and play the system.
The system should require that you have paid into it to get benefits.(In which case some of our own population would not qualify for benefits)
Some truly destitue people should get limited help....and they should have to pay back the cost once they are working.
There should be economic rules for migrants - they must be able to show that they have 1) a job.
2) enough money to sustain them for a period of two years
3) somewhere to live - be that a home that they have found before coming
into the country/or family members who they can live with.
If they cannot show proof of these things then they should not be allowed in.......someone has got to get real pretty soon, or our island is going to sink.
But then implementing such measures would require better skills than this governmemt has(for all its posturing and tinkering at the edges - the benefits system requires radical reform.....and they haven't got the cojones to do it).
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Spot on Margaret, I can remember a few years ago, I was in E3 at Queens Park and they brought this elderly Asian gentleman into the next bed, he couldn't speak a word of English. Then the doctor came around his son-in-law was there to act as interpreter, they pulled the curtains round as usual, but you could still hear what was said. The doctor asked how long this man had been in the country, the reply nearly had me falling out of bed. Well, he said, he never wanted to come to Britain until he started being ill, wonderful
