Scum-watch: Those thieving migrant scrounging sponging scum...
Horror of horrors! You know what those Poles are doing now? Only writing in their newspapers about how easy it is to claim benefits!
THE biggest Polish newspaper in Britain has run a special edition bragging how easy it is to claim benefits.And it describes the simple ways immigrants can grab a cheap home with free furniture and child benefits.
The piece in this week’s edition of The Polish Express is even illustrated with a picture of a couple with a pushchair being showered in bank notes.
It takes quite something for the king of gutter journalism to turn its sights on others, but the Scum is nothing if not brazen.
The front-page article, headlined Benefit Hunters, reads: “The longer we are in Great Britain, the more rights to social security we are given and the better we are at taking advantage of them.”
Other pictures show a woman holding a set of keys and a model of a house, and a child clutching coins.
Another photo shows a man entering a Jobcentre with the caption: “Poles are visiting the Jobcentre more and more often — not to find a job, but in order to get benefit.”
It says: “You can apply for benefits as soon you take up a job in Great Britain.
“You can apply for the remaining benefits after working in the UK for a few months or a year.
“The formalities concerning an application for social security are extremely simple. Do not delay in submitting an application.”
In other words then, all the Polish Express is doing is informing its readers of their rights as they currently stand. Still, with a helpful coating of Sun hyperbole you can soon turn such a story into a migrants stealing our benefits extravangaza.
The paper features a case study of “Pete”, a Pole who came to Britain two years ago and settled in a Welsh seaside town. Unlike the 1.6million Brits waiting for homes on council housing lists, he was given a two-bedroom house with a garden straightaway.
Pete is quoted as saying: “The house in which I rented a room was falling apart.” When he went to a housing association he was told to register with the Home Office as a person working in the UK to get a National Insurance number.
He says: “Never in my life did I expect the whole process to last such a short time.
“They just gave me the keys and told me to move in. They did not even want any deposit.”
He adds: “They asked me if I had furniture. I didn’t, so they sent a lorry with a brand new bed, table, chairs and a cooker. They even brought it all in!”
The paper explains he pays £60 rent a week for a two-bedroom house with a garden.
After living there for two years, he will be able to buy the property at a discount on its market value.
What's that I smell? It couldn't be bullshit, could it? Considering earlier in the year, after Margaret Hodge's outburst about migrants taking all the houses the government came up with figures that showed actually only 2% of all lettings last year had gone to foreign nationals (around 2,200 houses in total), it might just be that "Pete" or the Express have rather embellished their account.
It is estimated around 112,000 migrants who came to the UK to work are currently claiming state benefits — up from 46,620 last year.
The Scum naturally doesn't bother to present a breakdown of those figures. Thankfully, a slightly less egregious newspaper but one which is still wholly disingenuous has previously done the job for us:
If you bother to do the working out, it actually works out that 84% of eastern European migrants aren't claiming any benefits; and those that are are almost universally taking advantage of benefits that as taxpayers' every other person in the United Kingdom is automatically entitled to. The £125 million figure though is complete bollocks, as is most of the article other than the stats, as Five Chinese Crackers pointed out.Next up we have the usual rent-a-quote suspects spouting out their indignation at how appalling this all is:
Shadow home secretary Mr Davis said: “Statistics like these show why the Government’s claims that numbers coming here would be low — and restrictions would be placed on benefits — were just more spin. The public will want to know what action Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is taking.”Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migration Watch, attacked the newspaper article last night.
He said: “It’s appalling that Polish immigrants should be encouraged to live off our taxes even if they have to work for a year before the whole system is wide open to them.
“The Government claimed to close off the welfare system to ‘benefit shoppers’.
“But it looks as though some people are finding their way through these checks at our expense.
“The money employers save on lower salaries will be paid out by taxpayers funding benefits.”
Which only just goes to show that the supposed head of an anti-immigration thinktank hasn't got the slightest clue what he's talking about. If he had even browsed the recent figures he'd know that what he's saying simply isn't true, meaning that he's either lying or doesn't have the adequate knowledge to be able to comment on the Scum's article. Not that that usually stops anyone else.
But Polish Express editor Adam Skorupinski was unrepentant.He said: “It was not our intention to encourage Polish people to seek benefits. We definitely think there’s a problem with benefit hunters from Poland and Eastern Europe — but it’s not such a big problem that it’s hurting the British public.”
As the figures for those claiming out-of-work benefits more than bear out.
The Scum couldn't resist commenting this in its editorial column:
IT’S bad enough that Britain has turned into a haven for Europe’s scroungers.
Yes, of course it has Rebekah my dear, keep taking the medicine.
Now a Polish immigrant newspaper adds insult to injury by cheerily telling its readers how best to squeeze handouts from British taxpayers.
Or, err, considering that they're also paying tax, how to claim benefits they're entitled to.
It cites one extraordinary case of a Pole given a two-bedroom house and a truckload of new furniture with practically no questions asked.
Extraordinary in its lack of truthfulness, one suspects.
Its front page pictures a couple pushing a pram while being showered in British bank notes.
Less painful than being hit with pound coins I suppose - although if that was the case the Scum could have made a joke about golden showers.
Many immigrants, Poles especially, do enrich our country through hard work.
Really? Reading the Sun you would have thought they'd come here to do everything but, seeing as we're the haven for Europe's scroungers.
But others have come here solely to milk the over-generous benefits system which is the talk of Europe’s spongers.
As the figures bear out. Oh, wait...
The Polish newspaper has a right to free speech, however disgraceful its message.
Quite right too. The Sun can just direct its hatred at the Polish themselves instead.
The fault lies with the Government that allows this gravy train to roll on and on.
Who could possibly disagree?
Labels: Eastern European migration, fucking liars, migrants, Scum-watch, Sun-watch
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This scottish dictatorship is intent on flooding our once great country with surly,criminal minded,foreign spongers.Wake up Joe Public and lets get rid of Gordon Macbrown and his bunch of incompetent arseholes before the immeasurable damage already done becomes terminal.I dont want to live in a multi cultural society surrounded by blockheads and spear chuckers.They dont like us and I sure as hell dont like them.
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