One in three Brits are racist....

[trt]

I was a bit surprised at this poll as its not about racism, its about to many immigrants arriving in the UK to reap are generous benefits system that are supposedly for the people who have paid their taxes and National Insurance since leaving school, and not for every Tom, Dick and Harry from far flung Country's who have never put a penny in the pot!!!!!!

http://www.dailymail....t-according-poll.html

[MarkRae]

If the Daily Mail says that one in three Brits is racist, it must be right.

Are you AOG in disguise...?

[Mamyalynne]

I do surveys never did that one

[Sqad]

I am not surprised.......have always maintained that on posts, but have been "shouted down"..............as with many other of my statistical posts on various topics ;-)

[waterboatman]

It is not racist. It is, however, a lot of people who have paid their dues all their lives and then people from far flung countries and countries closer, are allowed to come here and are given more of our money than our own pensioners get. That can never be right can it?

[emmie]

try saying that to someone, about why should it be right that as you posted every man and his dog can waft in, pay nothing and still get help. You get looked upon as though some rabid BNP member, for expressing that view.
I look around me and wonder where the Britain and especially London that we grew up in went.

[waterboatman]

Quite so em.

[sammmo]

exactly em10..I work with alot of part timers, mostly poles..great people, hard working etc.. but why can they get the benefits ordinary nationals get. when they've only been in the country five minutes..

[venator]

If I was answering a poll, these are my perceptions of our society as a member ofthe older generation - I don't think of myself as racist, though..

We have always had immigration in this country - Irish, Jamaican etc.

We have always had fiddlers and freeloaders in this country, home grown and imported!

Our traditional tolerance is being stretched to breaking point by the level of immigration in recent years and the press is feeding on it.

The Poles and Chinese have by and large come here to work and contribute to our economy, but a lot of East European and Asians have come here for our housing and benefits, and their birth rate is much higher than the national average.

Much of our crime associated with drugs, guns, prostitution and street violence is associated with immigrants.

How much of this would the average Brit agree with?

[waterboatman]

Spot on ven!

[venator]

Of course the benefits bonanza is down to the EU - we could theoretically get benefits in Poland or Romania.

Cloud cuckoo land on stilts, the whole EU idea.

We should never have got sucked into it. We should pull out now, and reassess it in 20 years or so, when it may have become workable.

I bet 1 in 3 Brits would vote along these lines if given a referendum...

[venator]

I feel better now - a good rant in the morning sets me up for the day.

Long live Answerbank.

Ab Editor for PM!

[waterboatman]

Ven, in 20 years the EU will not exist! I agree we should never have joined and we should get out now.

[venator]

I agree WBM, if you decide to emigrate, is there room on your boat for 3 more?

[Sqad]

Venator.....absolutely agree.

We have prided ourselves in being a philanthropic country and still do, but philanthropy is easy when times are prosperous, now unfortunately times are tough.

Also....it is easy to be a philanthropist when one is using other people's money. ;-)

[waterboatman]

Nicely put sqad! :o}

[sammmo]

We had a polish girl working as an auditor at our factory .. she had a child in poland being looked after by her mother and this girl was claiming child benefit for the child and sending it to poland..absolute madness..

[Mick-Talbot]

Of course the benefits bonanza is down to the EU - we could theoretically get benefits in Poland or Romania.




I would love to see a fly on the wall documentary that follows a few british families round Europe ........in their attempt to get help and benefits .

[emmie]

Mick suggest it would be quite a dull one. This like for like benefit system, where one could get benefits in other EU countries, can someone tell me how that would work in places like Romania. If they are poor, and the people come here to supposedly work, why don't they stay in romania and if out of work, get the equivalent benefits there. No one seems to ever think of those who have slogged away here, put money aside for a rainy day, then having to spend that dosh when times are hard. If they get ill, or have to go into a nursing home. It an incentive not to work, rather than the other way around. My folks worked hard all their lives, but try squeezing an extra 10 bob out of the DWP you will be whistling for it.

[emmie]

some of the info on this is more than interesting, especially the employment part

http://employment.pra...=&qp=&qo=&qe=#a281661