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cybercarl wrote:We should all become Sikhs and then we can save money on not buying a motorcycle helmet.

rollingthunderx2 wrote:What we dont need is people being influenced by the tsunami of Britain First propaganda drowning the internet.
If we leave, Farage inc are going to wombles us up the butt and demolish our rights, which are only being held by the EU, wakev up you flapjacks!

Demonic69 wrote:I wonder how many are claiming benefits...

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Unemployed Britons in Europe are drawing much more in benefits and allowances in the wealthier EU countries than their nationals are claiming in the UK, despite the British government’s arguments about migrants flocking in to the country to secure better welfare payments.

At least 30,000 British nationals are claiming unemployment benefit in countries around the EU, research by the Guardian has found, based on responses from 23 of the 27 other EU countries.

The research shows more than four times as many Britons obtain unemployment benefits in Germany as Germans do in the UK, while the number of jobless Britons receiving benefits in Ireland exceeds their Irish counterparts in the UK by a rate of five to one.

redpig wrote:Concentrate on the UK.
Don't be sidetracked
The majority of Britons do not claim benefits
The majority of Britons live in the UK
The majority of Britons pay tax in the UK

The data from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HMRC, also show that the majority of welfare recipients are British.

In 2014, 4.9 million (92.6 per cent) working age benefit claimants were British while only 131,000 (2.5 per cent) were EU nationals. The number of recipients from outside of the UK — but not from the EU — was 264,000 (five per cent).

Likewise, in the latest data from 2013 for those tax credits, 3.9 million (84.8 per cent) families receiving the benefits were British citizens, 302,000 (6.4 per cent) were EU citizens and 413,000 (8.8 per cent) were from outside of the UK.

Boston is one of the most extreme examples in Britain of a town affected by recent EU immigration.

The 2011 census found that around 13% of the town was born elsewhere in the EU - largely East European migrants who arrived after 2004.

Some of the effects of migration are only really observable when you go to places where the local economy has been so thoroughly transformed.

For example, the Boston story underlines the academic finding that there is no evidence that EU immigration is linked to higher unemployment.

Broadly, mobile people do not go where there are no good jobs. In the jargon, "displacement" is not a problem. And they will sometimes allow structural changes in the local economy that allow employment to rise. That fits the Boston story.

Unemployment in the town is well below the national average - 4.4% of economically active people, as against 5.2% nationally.

Mav617 wrote:IPeople living in the UK who can't speak English can fook off.