From what I hear all around the country, the major problem is with the Eastern Europeans and how people hate the fact that they get benefits for their family who are still back home there.Originally Posted by eljean
........but now beco'z of the credit crunch and unemploymen they blame it usthey should blame the banks its the banks the causes this all for having a toxic debts and bankruptcy, not the immigrant dont you think???
People have never said to me that it is all immigrants, including Asian people.
It seems like an unwritten rule that people here in the UK do not attack people from Philippines or Thailand because their husbands are here. Asian ladies are not singled out for derision, as far as I can tell.
Personally, I don't mind the free movement of peoples in the EEC, but the benefits that go out of the country is worrying.
I suppose that it must have been reciprocated before from other EEC countries to ours.
The reason why nobody complained on a large scale was that the earning potential for Brits abroad in Poland (for example) was so poor, so that many Brits did not go to the Eastern European countries to work before.
Lots of Brits went to Germany at one time though.
I did know an English girl who got the dole when she lived in Italy and that was 27 years ago
