Polish Benefit Cheats
As always, I discovered something quite by accident. When I wrote the first ever post in this great blog, I mentioned that I was getting out of the UK because of the racist cretins who live there moaning about “the bloody Polish” and “benefit cheats”, amongst other things. Yesterday, someone came onto this site searching for “polish benefit cheats”. Why are they searching for that? I wondered…
It appears that the Daily Fascist (it might be called the Daily Mail, but I’ve not been in middle England for nearly a year now) last weekend some time ran a story about how Polish Benefit Cheats are ’stealing’ over £1million per month from the British benefits system claiming benefits for children living in Poland.
The BBC also ‘uncovered’ a remarkably similar story on their website.
Those Poles! The bloody cheek. Imagine, leaving their homeland - and their families - for another country, finding gainful employment in that country, paying taxes, VAT on goods purchased, rent to their landlord, tax on their booze, petrol and cigarettes, national insurance, and everything else they buy in that country, then feeling that they have somehow earned the right to claim a benefit that everyone else who works in that country and has children can claim. The bastards.
I read quite a lot about this, and all of it made me pretty angry. I’m not sure I want to go back to England, though people with minds so small that they couldn’t possibly see a bigger picture are not, unfortunately, only available in Britain. Nope, they have them here in Australia too. Over here its the indigenous Australians who take all the hammer reserved for ‘the bloody Polish’, ‘asylum seekers’ and ‘lazy jobless chavs’ in the UK (not to mention muslims etc etc etc in America).
It is particularly saddening to see that - after many thousands of years of human social interaction and ‘progress’ - we are still living in a world of nationalist xenophobes and blatant racists.
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who would want to live here anyway? Check out this from The Economist:
“Beyond the euro zone there are also currency worries. In Britain the economy is slowing, and the sharp drop in the value of the pound has cut the attraction of the country to foreign workers. Every pound a Pole sent home in May 2004 earned him seven zloties; today he gets little more than four. Similarly, as the value of the dollar has tumbled, the attractions of moving to America to work have declined…”
“…To find people to do the jobs that Europeans dislike—such as working in care-homes for the elderly—governments and others are recruiting from farther and farther afield. Italy has recently signed a contract with Sri Lanka’s government to supply, on temporary contracts, guest-workers for old-people’s homes. Expect Britain to turn again to traditional sources of migrant labour in South Asia. Moldova is next in line to supply temporary migrants to the EU. If the supply of willing workers from neighbouring countries dries up, the rich world will need more such deals with more remote countries….”