Anyone who has read The Big Dollop blog with any degree of regularity will only be too well aware of my opinion on the immigration policies of successive UK Governments during the course of the last 30 years or so.
I have tried to engender my opinion on the rationale of highlighting the ineptitude of HM’s Government(s) given that they have been hogtied by legislation enacted by the European courts, therefore I would like to apologise in advance if the subject of this post comes across as being somewhat Xenophobic - I can assure my readership that is not my intention, let me explain further.
What chance do we have as a country to properly address the dire economic situation when we have people like Romanian Mother-of-four - 27 year old Firuta Vasile.
In order to better her lot, Ms. Vasile came to this country in 2007 and found herself a job selling the Big Issue – a job which according to a tribunal allows her to claim a self-employment status and as such, housing benefit which could potentially cost the UK taxpayer some £20,800 a year.
It is incredible that a foreign national can come to the UK and find herself a part time job selling the Big Issue earning at most £50 a week and then go on and fleece the taxpayer for a small fortune, if ever an individual case sums up the unbelievable scale of the problem the UK faces as a result of continued membership of the EU - it is this one.
According to a report in the Daily Mail, Ms Vasile is already in receipt of £326 each week in tax credits, £60.50 in child benefits, £49.30 in disability living allowance and £55.50 a week in carers allowance, this decision now means she will have a further payment of £160 for housing benefit on a weekly basis – not too bad for standing on a street corner selling the Big Issue for 20 hours a week.
No wonder people in this country are angry when we have a situation like the one I have described above.
I am not being Xenophobic in my assertion that Ms. Vasile is fleecing the country/ UK Taxpayer for a small fortune, as I said above that was never my intention - no my ire is directed at the inflexibility of HM’s Government who like their predecessors in office are totally indifferent to public opinion in allowing this to happen.
In all sincerity this present lot of shysters need to get the collective finger out of their arse's and give the people of the UK a referendum on the merits (or otherwise) of continued membership of the EU – the sooner the better.
I have tried to engender my opinion on the rationale of highlighting the ineptitude of HM’s Government(s) given that they have been hogtied by legislation enacted by the European courts, therefore I would like to apologise in advance if the subject of this post comes across as being somewhat Xenophobic - I can assure my readership that is not my intention, let me explain further.
What chance do we have as a country to properly address the dire economic situation when we have people like Romanian Mother-of-four - 27 year old Firuta Vasile.
Working The System ? You Bet !
In order to better her lot, Ms. Vasile came to this country in 2007 and found herself a job selling the Big Issue – a job which according to a tribunal allows her to claim a self-employment status and as such, housing benefit which could potentially cost the UK taxpayer some £20,800 a year.
It is incredible that a foreign national can come to the UK and find herself a part time job selling the Big Issue earning at most £50 a week and then go on and fleece the taxpayer for a small fortune, if ever an individual case sums up the unbelievable scale of the problem the UK faces as a result of continued membership of the EU - it is this one.
According to a report in the Daily Mail, Ms Vasile is already in receipt of £326 each week in tax credits, £60.50 in child benefits, £49.30 in disability living allowance and £55.50 a week in carers allowance, this decision now means she will have a further payment of £160 for housing benefit on a weekly basis – not too bad for standing on a street corner selling the Big Issue for 20 hours a week.
No wonder people in this country are angry when we have a situation like the one I have described above.
I am not being Xenophobic in my assertion that Ms. Vasile is fleecing the country/ UK Taxpayer for a small fortune, as I said above that was never my intention - no my ire is directed at the inflexibility of HM’s Government who like their predecessors in office are totally indifferent to public opinion in allowing this to happen.
In all sincerity this present lot of shysters need to get the collective finger out of their arse's and give the people of the UK a referendum on the merits (or otherwise) of continued membership of the EU – the sooner the better.
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