So, they take child benefit from decent UK based taxpayers

The_White_Horse

and give it to kids in Poland instead (50,000 of them).

Nice. Glad to see my money is helping these people out.

Ridiculous!

The_White_Horse

here is the link in case you think it was a false claim

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9835068/50000-children-overseas-getting-child-benefit-and-tax-credit-Treasury-admits.html

The_White_Horse

utterly sickening that the children of tax payers in this country are deprived so that kids in poland can take the money instead.

when will this end???? when the lefty is irradicated, that is when. dirty dangerous lefties. the biggest threat to the western world there has ever been.

Graham_Devon

Careful now, Hamish will be along to brand you a certain name in a minute!

This is all to do with the lovely EU. We can't really do much about it.

Hence why I want open and frank debates, including stuff like this, and a referendum where we can decided whether it's worth it or not.

It's just ridiculous. Bulgarian kids will be next.

The_White_Horse

its a DISGRACE. how can the Govt of this country look at themselves??? they take from their own people and give it to kids in Poland??????? whilst kids here miss out.

they should be imprisoned for this.

alleycat`

whilst i don't disagree with what you are saying it isn't 50K in Poland (although they make up the majority at over 25K).

It hurts your argument, which i support, if you try make it sound like it is just the poles.

I doubt this is much different to the Pakistani and Indian arguments we've seen before?

It is just a general "feature" of the systems lack of sense.

The_White_Horse

i don't care if they are Poles or anyone else. they are not English and should not be getting benefits that have been CUT to English people.

wotsthat

Graham_Devon wrote: »

This is all to do with the lovely EU. We can't really do much about it.

The government could just say that they won't pay benefits to any children that reside outside the UK - end of.

The treasury minister blaming EC Regulation is talking out of his hat.

wotsthat

The_White_Horse wrote: »

when will this end???? when the lefty is irradicated, that is when. dirty dangerous lefties. the biggest threat to the western world there has ever been.

Do you mean the lefties in government?

The ones that try and pretend they've been emasculated by Europe for their own ends?

grizzly1911

50000 roughly 0.384% of total CB claims.

No doubt some will be transitory children moving to and from the UK and others will be children of UK citizens abroad.

wymondham

I don't agree the Government can do nothing about any issue with the word 'europe' in it. The Government has the final say and can easily do as it wishes when it comes to the UK's interests. Other govenments in europe flaut european law quite regularly..