Drummond
Senior Member
It will vary from country to country.
Revealed: thousands of Britons on benefits across EU
The point is that any supposed benefit to the UK is immediately cancelled out.
In fact you would be making the situation worse.Immigrants benefit our economy.
Positive economic impact of UK immigration from the European Union: new evidence
Your link (the Guardian ... why am I not surprised ?) ... quotes a figure of 30,000 currently on benefits. That's 30,000 who haven't paid taxes over years and decades to ever contribute to what we give them ...
So check this out ...
Number of foreign nationals on benefits soars to 400,000
New figures showed there were 407,000 non-UK nationals receiving the hand-outs last year, a rise of more than 118,000 since 2008, with the total bill running to hundreds of millions of pounds a year.
Data from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), released under the Freedom of Information Act, showed a sharp rise in the number of claims by immigrants from eastern European countries.
Just 12,600 were claiming work benefits in 2008 but this increased nearly fourfold to just under 50,000 last year, when people from Poland and seven other eastern European countries which joined the EU in 2004 gained full access to the benefits system
So you can see that OUR burden of benefit claimants outweighs that of UK residents within the EU ... presumably, the WHOLE of the EU !!!!
I note your link claiming that immigrants have paid more in taxes than they've received in benefits. OK ... if that really is true .. and considering that immigrants, in the main, are unlikely to have had any great period to do so ... the only way this makes sense is to suppose that the number of immigrants we're talking about must be HUGE !!!
Think about it. How can this be incorrect ?
So again, you're effectively arguing against yourself. Maybe that figure of 407,000 can only be explained by literally MILLIONS of immigrants, here, offsetting the burden of claims ?? If you have another explanation, please offer it.
I think I've asked you before ... please answer now. At what point should we stop taking immigrants ... or ... do you think there is no upper limit to that number ??