SINGLE Polish immigrants are quitting the UK but their families are staying to claim benefits.
Nearly half of Britain’s 500,000 Polish workers are expected to leave in the next few months as firms are hit by the credit crunch.
A family of four immigrants pockets an average of £715 a week in Britain. This includes £500 housing benefit, £95 Jobseeker’s Allowance, £36 child benefit, £84 in grants including council tax credits, carers allowance, maternity, paternity, and learning grants.
In Poland they would get just £178, according to experts. And with the falling value of the pound making it less economic to send money back to Poland, many immigrants are flying in more relatives to claim cash.
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I told you the Poles were not all perfect but you barred me, for saying so!
Goodnight!
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If my information is correct,and these Poles return to their own country,what do we then do with all these extra cars they have been given by certain operators,to work in Newcastle with or other areas.
Does this mean all these out of area cars go to flimp in Poland too and return when we dig ourselves out of our own shit.
I wonder how much someone will sell or attempt to sell these plates for on `ebay`.
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“…Nearly half of Britain’s 500,000 Polish workers are expected to leave in the next few months as firms are hit by the credit crunch…”
So, does it mean that it is easy to find a job in Poland when credit crunch affected every country in the world? Why would not that 500,000Polish workers stay in the UK and claim whatever “expert” would promise them they can claim?
“…A family of four immigrants pockets an average of £715 a week in Britain. This includes £500 housing benefit, £95 Jobseeker’s Allowance, £36 child benefit, £84 in grants including council tax credits, carers allowance, maternity, paternity, and learning grants…”
A family of four immigrants pockets an average of £500 a week as housing benefit. If this information was correct then every “family of four immigrants” would be given a house on Darras Rd., some may be able to rent on Runnymede Rd. just as well.
“…In Poland they would get just £178, according to experts…”
The “expert” is rubbish that is all I would say.
“ …and with the falling value of the pound making it less economic to send money back to Poland, many immigrants are flying in more relatives to claim cash…“
So according to the “expert” once immigrant arrives he can claim whatever “expert” says – rubbish! To claim child benefit children presents in the UK is not essential (I think this is wrong, but that is how the system works), to be eligible for claiming any other benefit an EE citizen must show that he/she has been working for two years none stop (from what I know), so no one “flying in” would be able to get anything.
So what is this article about? About how “clever” “Polish” people are or is it about how badly managed British system or is it just another rubbish article from a rubbish newspaper that would not survive without publishing tits? Who reads such paper anyway, w4nk3r5?
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@Polish BLT Driver, I think you are right,Bad British system,possibly rubbish article & you are a clever Pole but why don’t you just say ‘Wankers’and why would you come to someone elses country and be so arrogant, sorry! but i couldn’t see myself going to your country and shout me mouth off this way.In everything else you seem so grateful for opportunity to work,you seem to have a good work ethic,can’t hold that against you,but if people wind you up(a very British thing) why do you let it bother you.I’m not racist in the least and would work alongside you any day of the week and treat you as if you were born and bred,but I think all foreigners are far too sensitive and I can tell you, Britain is not the right place for you if you are sensitive.We make careers out of taking the piss out of others and each other and are quite hardened to it. So,as an honorary Brit “Lighten up Mate”
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@Proper Hack,
Spot on there mate, get him told!!!
Regards
Stephen
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@Proper Hack,
“@Polish BLT Driver, I think you are right,Bad British system,possibly rubbish article & you are a clever Pole but why don’t you just say ‘Wankers’…”
Because that is what I think and if you read carefully I question. Did my question offend you? Sorry, mate!
“…and why would you come to someone elses country and be so arrogant, sorry! but i couldn’t see myself going to your country and shout me mouth off this way…”
You know what this reminds me? A policeman that stopped me once claiming that I was speeding, telling me loads of rubbish and yet couple of week before that happened one of his colleges knocked a girl, killing her on Denton Rd going (it was suggested by the newspaper) at around 90 mph without blue lights on. Listening to him I remembered two policemen from Cleveland (relatively local people) who, few of years ago, went to Lithuania and were arrested at the time as they were urinating at Lithuanian Presidential Palace.
“… I think all foreigners are far too sensitive and I can tell you, Britain is not the right place for you if you are sensitive…”
So what are you trying to say that I am more sensitive than you,
, why would you bother to respond? I am a straight man, not a “diplomat” and would not change it that is the way I am.
“…We make careers out of taking the piss out of others and each other and are quite hardened to it. So,as an honorary Brit “Lighten up Mate”
There is no need to explain to me how thing are here in Britain, I am not a stranger, have been living here legally for over ten years and believe you me I did not have an “easy” life like that “newspaper” suggests.
A lot of people/customers ask me how/if Britain is different from where I come from and I say that from what I see economy here is in very good shape, people have many more opportunities to study, to do business etc., In Britain people may have different habits/interests and the way of living could be more dynamic then where I come from, but what is very much the same in Britain and the rest of the world is human nature. I have to say that I found people here being friendly, except those who still thinking about Eastern Europe as a part of “Warsaw Pact”, forgetting that those former “Warsaw Pact” members are present in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I said before, in one of my previous posts, that I would not like to talk politics here, so I should make it my last post here, all the best.
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@P0Lish BLT Driver, For goodness sake, i’m trying to be friendly,give me a break. I say it again lighten up. I wouldn’t give a Brit this many chances I’d say stuff you mate but for all your ten years here you still think that the comments here are out to get you,well i’m not mate and i’m not the least bit political.I didn’t write that article it was someone from The Sun.so have a bit chat without going all defensive.
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well if i was polish blt driver,i would feel offended as well by some of the remarks on here as well.
Polish blt driver rise above it.
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The Polish dont even have nto live in britain and they still get benefits. over £1M per month is paid out in child benefit to Polish mothers living in Poland.
Dont belive me check out the Daily Mail!!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-483225/1m-child-benefit-paid-month–mothers-Poland.html
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