I Don't Give A Monkey's...

...but someone should say something about the UK benefits system

by Greg Smith

(WireNews+Co) - Blackpool, England - 19 July 2012

As I’m a foreign national, living in the United Kingdom since the late 80s, many WireNews+Co readers may be surprised to know that I am against benefits, of any kind, for anyone not actually born in the UK.

This will include child benefit, housing benefit, community grants, job seekers allowance and the like.

The list is long and practically endless, outdone only by the queue of people waiting to collect “their share” of the welfare payments being handed out as regular as clockwork.

But who should qualify? Many illegal immigrants; those who do not have or would not be entitled to receive “leave to remain” in the UK are, as a group, some of the most prolific beneficiaries of these benefits.

Then there are the people who are entitled to remain, but came here hoping to benefit from the UK’s generous social welfare system. Unlike me.

Last in the queue and usually hardest hit are those people actually born in the UK – those I believe should be the only group truly entitled to receive benefits.

Under my proposal, the British government would grant benefits only to those people who were actually born in the UK, with the exception of children born abroad to one or more UK citizens who themselves were (are) on active military or diplomatic duty.

With the exception of a National Health service, which in my opinion is a human right, you’d not be entitled. Full stop.

My plan would cause a large number of people to leave the country. It would reduce the financial strain on the Treasury and return the Nation to a community of productive citizens and residents instead of being a welfare state on the brink of ruin.

Benefits for the British, I say.

What do you think?