Quote Originally Posted by IainBusby View Post
Just as an aside to this it's quite obvious to anyone who seen, as I did, a recent crime program called "Killer in the Family" about a Frenchman who killed his wife here in the UK, that our benefits system is much more generous than the other major countries in Europe ie France, Germany etc. He actually came to live in the UK because he was disabled in some way and learned that he was entitled to far higher benefits here in the UK than he was in his home country France.

It seems we are always prepared to level things up in line with the rest of Europe, but not so keen to level things down.
Thats labour for ya Only kidding to realign our benefit system inline with europes would from what I understand, mean some massive policy change which I dont think any of the main parties would dare consider.