Immigration
Stephen Pollard in today's Daily Mail says some silly things.On jailed Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal he says, "He is far from alone in expousing such evil, and while those who share his beliefs are able to carry on peddling their foul views -- often while living on benefits at the taxpayer's expense -- it is mainstream, law-abding Muslims who suffer, because they are contaminated by association"
Only in your head Stephen, only in your head.
Anyway he has a solution to our 'problems with unfettered immigration' which is that 'we must be explicit that productive immigrants are good, and unproductive immigrants are bad'. To do this we must structure the benefits system so 'for their first seven years in the country immigrants should receive no state benefits of any kind, other than schooling for their children and emergency health care'.
So there you have it. Presumably no child benefit or pensions or fuel allowances, or non-emergency healthcare. And as non-emergency healthcare is not a cash benefit but a benefit-in-kind, it seems the logical next step is immigrants won't be allowed to use the roads, or call the police. But they will have to pay taxes, one presumes.
Of course it's ridiculous, and even more so when you realise that immigrants are not a huge drain on the social security budget and almost all want to get jobs anyway.
posted by Matthew @ 2/19/2004 02:42:00 PM
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