Yes. They pay such benefits.

Yes. (Doesn't France have the greatest number of immigrants?)

Yes/No. Other countries are generally less xenophobic than Britain, although of course, you have whingers and fascists everywhere.

Anyone notice the BBC are going with the new immigration restrictions as their top story. Trying to make up for their previous bias I guess.

If you feel the need to be the big man throwing around the usual left wing derogatory terms then fine. No one really cares as the majority of the population support moves restricting foreigner benefits.

Damned if they do and damned if they don't, I guess.

What about a better option.

Come here to work or you are not welcome.

So what would you do if say, the person and child were from Syria, they had seen their families bombed and poisoned, shot, etc etc (and that's just the basic things that have been happening to them), they came here to try and build a new life and couldn't get a job to begin with until they had adjusted from the trauma. You do realise why there are so many immigrants do you? Why people are risking drowning etc to escape? And before you ask, we don't get many of them, more than 2 million have gone to places like Lebanon, Jordon, Turkey etc, 24,000 have gone to Germany, No, not all immigrants are fleeing things as bad as that, but do you really think people uproot themselves from their families and travel and try and start a new life for the fun of it, or for a few paltry pounds?

Do you think British people never go to live abroad? Or is that different? You think they don't get benefits in the countries they go to if they loose jobs etc?

Perhaps you would like to have a look at this link, with countries and the number of immigrants tey have, which includes numbers as a percentage of the population:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...orn_population

Take a look down to Jordan and Hong Kong, smaller than us, much higher percentage of immigrants.

It's just a shame the BBC and the British press don't report this to the idiotic masses who obsess over the immigration issue. Something has to be done to tackle British Xenophobia. It's almost acceptable because it's become so widespread with the press and the conservatives most to blame for inflaming it.

Picking at the low hanging fruit i see

Notice i said migrants not asylum seekers.

Would you believe, I know someone on another forum who have emigrated to Ireland and is doing her very best to instill them with English Xenophobia. I'm glad to say, she's not having much luck.

Low fruit? Why do you think migrants move? If they had a good life they wouldn't move, would they?

The majority of the idiot population, maybe. It doesn't make them right just because they've been misled into thinking this is a bigger problem than it is

I lived and worked in the republic from 99 until 2006 (Mullingar) and for the last year I was there I was on the dole unfortunately, no fault of my own, the entire factory closed making me redundant,
the Irish dole was around 20 pounds a week more than the UK dole (at the time 2005/6) and I could also claim for my rent, and I wasn't made to feel as though I was vermin either, as the unemployed here are,
I applied for and was granted a place on a business study course, with a view to going self employed,
the course lasted 6 months, one day a week, and from the moment I started the course my 'dole' went up by 20 euros a week, and I wasn't expected to look for work, and anything I earned from my self employment wile on the course was not taken from my benefits, see the Irish actually try to HELP the unemployed rather than kicking them in the teeth,
Had I finished the course, I would have been able to apply for an almost guaranteed non re-payable grant of up to 10 thousand euros, to help start my business,
and I would STILL be allowed to claim 'dole' for another 4 years after going self employed, on a sliding reduction of 25% per year,

But so good is the propaganda here, that huge numbers of the herd think we have the most generous welfare system in Europe, we certainly have one of the best, but far from THE best,
It was a real culture shock when I arrived back in the UK, and turned up at the job-centre and asked for 'help' I can tell ya,

You are trying to compare those who are fleeing a warzone aka an asylum seeker to an economic migrant. These are two completley different things.

A much more interesting country from your wiki link iswthe uae.

and believing that an opinion or point of view based on prejudice and ignorance, shouldn't be opposed or argued against because "the majority" agree, worked really well in a certain European country, in the early half of the last century didn't it?
although, I've yet to see any proof, of this "majority" support, all we seem to see is lots of very vocal 'righties' TELLING everyone what the "majority" thinks,

and yet if the "majority" DO agree with this, then why aren't the BNP in power? and should we expect a UKIP government in 2015 if "the majority" do indeed agree?,

Which facts and figures are those?

Ones from mickey mouse Wikipedia no doubt

The majority agree on restricting benefits to foreigners, there is nothing racist or xenophobic about that.
Certainly no need to join extremist parties such as the BNP in order to support this common sense approach in order for you to stoke you cl.aims of racism or xenophobia.

What is occurring with this policy is common sense - something that some who share your patterns of thought seriously lack.