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Interesting corrolation. If Milt is right, we might be quite close to 'make your mind up time'. Housing benefit? Tax credits? Child benefits?
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/welfare/pick-one-of-two%3A-free-immigration-or-a-welfare-state/As we all know Uncle Milt told us that we could have either a welfare state or free immigration. We can't have both: for we'll attract an awful lot of immigrants with a generous welfare state.
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Interesting corrolation. If Milt is right, we might be quite close to 'make your mind up time'. Housing benefit? Tax credits? Child benefits?
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/welfare/pick-one-of-two%3A-free-immigration-or-a-welfare-state/
I am happy to concede that my brain is not as big as Uncle Milt's, and is infinitely smaller than the combined resources of the Adam Smith Institute, but what's wrong with having a Welfare State which is only accessible to people who are long-term contibutors to the state in question?
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Bizarrely, most immigrants aim to work. But of course they're wrong either way. If they aren't scrounging they're taking our jobs.we'll attract an awful lot of immigrants with a generous welfare state."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Just that it's not nice watching children starve.what's wrong with having a Welfare State which is only accessible to people who are long-term contibutors to the state in question?"It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Bizarrely, most immigrants aim to work. But of course they're wrong either way. If they aren't scrounging they're taking our jobs.
I think there are three major immigrant groups that most of us come across in our daily lives (no doubt there are graphs and statistics which will show a different picture):
1. People from countries with historic links to 'The Commonwealth', who may therefore feel a justifiable claim to be allowed to live here
2. People from European Countries who genuinely saw an opportunity to come here and make a better life for themselves
3. People from Africa who just want a house
TruckerTAccording to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.0
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