Landmark EU law allows jobless migrants claim benefits for children living at home.

Run_to_da_hills

"A landmark ruling that allows jobless migrants to claim benefits in Britain for their children living in their home country sparked outrage last night"

Well as we are all regions of Europe, this will also inevitably apply to Ireland

Well thanks again for all those that voted YES in the recent referendum, another stupid EU law that will further sink our country down the toilet.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/164813

chin_grin

You're a referendum! That is all.

Danbo!

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Well thanks again for all those that voted YES in the recent referendum

No problem buddy

speedboatchase

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Well thanks again for all those that voted YES in the recent referendum, another stupid EU law that will further sink our country down the toilet.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/164813

Don't look at me, I voted No first but then I was told we were all voting yes?

KerranJast

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

"A landmark ruling that allows jobless migrants to claim benefits in Britain for their children living in their home country sparked outrage last night"

Well as we are all regions of Europe, this will also inevitably apply to Ireland

Well thanks again for all those that voted YES in the recent referendum, another stupid EU law that will further sink our country down the toilet.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/164813

And? Why not move to Sweden and do the same to them. They've a nice welfare state.

Mark200

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

"A landmark ruling that allows jobless migrants to claim benefits in Britain for their children living in their home country sparked outrage last night"

Well as we are all regions of Europe, this will also inevitably apply to Ireland

Well thanks again for all those that voted YES in the recent referendum, another stupid EU law that will further sink our country down the toilet.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/164813

How did you come to the conclusion that the ratification of the Lisbon treaty is responsible for this? :rolleyes:

Also, I'm pretty sure this has always been the case in Ireland. My mother works in Social Welfare and she told me before that they can claim child benefit for their children living in their home country. Before Lisbon.

ejmaztec

However, on the plus side, there's a link to a free gardening DVD halfway through the article, which is a bit of an unexpected bonus.

Fratton Fred

****ing immigrants, burn the lot of em.....

Oh.

K-9

At least it isn't the Mail.

Kotek Besar

From the article:

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers" Alliance, said: "This opens the door to a huge bill for taxpayers which is utterly unjustified.

"Now there are even greater incentives for people to come to Britain trying to take advantage of the benefits system. Time and again it seems these judgments go against the best interests of hard-pressed British taxpayers."

Perhaps someone should tell Matthew Elliott that the UK isn't the only country in the EU to which ECJ rulings apply, and that not everyone on the planet is desperate to move there anyway.

General Zod

heh. "chief executive" of "Taxpayers Alliance".
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/home/matthew-elliott-chief-executive.html

Who pays his salary?

Xluna

They took our dole!

ejmaztec

So, if us lads went on an EU-wide shagathon for a couple of years, we could come back and retire on the proceeds. (We'd probably too tired to work after that, and there would also be an element of disability:eek:)

Sounds fair enough to me.

Raekwon

KerranJast wrote: »

And? Why not move to Sweden and do the same to them. They've a nice welfare state.

Mmmmmm.......Sweden

/drools

Cookie_Monster

of course it applies EU wide but the benefits in Britian and particularly here a lot higher than other countries so its open to massive abuse at our expense :mad:

Nevermind_

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

"A landmark ruling that allows jobless migrants to claim benefits in Britain for their children living in their home country sparked outrage last night"

Well as we are all regions of Europe, this will also inevitably apply to Ireland

Well thanks again for all those that voted YES in the recent referendum, another stupid EU law that will further sink our country down the toilet.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/164813

while we're on the subject when are the stormtroopers coming to euthanise me?
I was promised this as part of the Lisbon Treaty and here I still am months later!!!!

orourkeda

I blame teh romanians

funk-you

K-9 wrote: »

At least it isn't the Mail.

Yeah, it's their slightly speedier but just as crap brother.

-Funk

Nodin

K-9 wrote: »

At least it isn't the Mail.

..no chance of seeing a nipple in it though.....

Overheal

Im sure just as many French and German websites complain about the Irish Immigrants :rolleyes:

Stinicker

I see no problem with this, if you have a child then you are entitled to benefits for the child. If I was working in France or elsewhere and had children I'd be entitled to the same social benefits as the french. People really are so narrow minded when it comes to these things and must realise the EU is not some device that prints cheques for farmers, it is becoming a defacto type of state and Ireland like Alabama in the US is a part of this union. We already have a common driving licence, passport and last time I checked there was Euros in my pocket.

Fortress Ireland far flung from the rest of Europe:pac:, the Aussies are begining to wake up and accept that Asia are their neighbours and they are gradual moving away from the Anglobritsh centric model for their economy and we should do the same.

Coriolanus

Overheal wrote: »

Im sure just as many French and German websites complain about the Irish Immigrants :rolleyes:

Doubtful. Anglophones are generally much lazier than our Continental cousins when it comes to learning enough of a foreign tongue to do much more than demand drink from a barman on holidays.

HalloweenJack

Don't blame the people who abuse the system, blame the system.

Millicent

K-9 wrote: »

At least it isn't the Mail.

It's the Express, the same people who were harassing Dunblane survivors a while back for the horrific crime of acting like teenagers. Same sh*t, different rag.

ejmaztec

Overheal wrote: »

Im sure just as many French and German websites complain about the Irish Immigrants :rolleyes:

I bet there's some Sioux websites banging on about a wide variety of immigrants. :P