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[RenditMan]

British rettirees living in other European countries and/or who own summer homes should also lose their "benefits" and tax examptions.


HEY! wanna retire in Spain or France? Well fuck your EU benefits too . You wanna Brexit, then go all the way and lose your own EU benifits.

Retirees don't get benefits though. Any pension they get will be paid by the UK.

 

[kmag]

Let's not kid ourselves.

What county in the world gives (until the cap of 26,000) none British citizens and British citizens get houses, sometimes huge houses and all they need to achieve this is children.

An extreme example would be There was some Somalian family living in a mansion in London that cost 4K a month rent. Why? Because there was no council house to put them in.

France? Germany? Pretty much every fucking civilised western society? Again you are kidding yourself if you think the UK's social provision is in anyway unique or even above average. And before you start, the housing costs are lower in France and Germany so the amounts spent are lower, but the social provision is largely the same. Funny enough, young children sleeping on the streets may be a good look in the Victorian dystopia that half the country wants to hurtle towards but most countries are smarter than that.

 

[Maledict]

France? Germany? Pretty much every fucking civilised western society?

He's reciting a daily mail story about immigrants getting a 4K house. There's literally no point responding to him. Facts and reality are long gone.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Let's not kid ourselves.

What county in the world gives (until the cap of 26,000) none British citizens and British citizens get houses, sometimes huge houses and all they need to achieve this is children.

An extreme example would be There was some Somalian family living in a mansion in London that cost 4K a month rent. Why? Because there was no council house to put them in.

Do you feel the same about all the British families who got the same but you didn't hear about because it didn't make for a good headline?

 

[Commander Jameson]

Also, isn't the real problem the lack of social housing? Caused by the current government.

 

[sechsterangriff]

Retirees don't get benefits though. Any pension they get will be paid by the UK.

There are "benefits" beyond one's pension... Such as access to public healthcare, cheaper medication and so on.

 

[dyergram]

Seems redundant if universal credit gets rolled out nationwide anyway.

 

[RenditMan]

There are "benefits" beyond one's pension... Such as access to public healthcare, cheaper medication and so on.

Which gets charged back to the NHS. That's why you don't see many countries complaining.

 

[chromatic9]

Not sure how this makes a case for single market access better. It means more people for other EU countries to accommodate which require benefits.

 

[Syder]

Earlier today, I noticed a video was trending on social media of Phillip Schofield scolding a woman for spending her Christmas bonus on Prosecco. This just exemplifies the hate boner large portions of the UK have for the less fortunate. Kind of funny seeing Philip Schofield get righteous about how a woman spends her money when his TV show is mainly supported by the unemployed. Estimates from officials that suggest benefit fraud costs the country around less than a percent of the total benefit expenditure a year (£1.2bn) which compared to tax evasion is completely dwarfed and yet the government spends far more in prosecuting the former (roughly 10 times as many people working on benefit fraud than they do on tax evasion/avoidance). The blame game is further propagated by the media; the country is told to blame people on benefits and immigrants for the economy whilst ignoring mass tax avoidance (we even saw a disgusting example of it earlier in this thread).

This country sucks.

 

[Dingens]

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yeah it's disgusting... the public is ganging up on a few unfortunate souls who get a couple hundred bucks a months, while at the same time "the rich" are scamming society for millions every week. But tax evasion is totally legal and therefore totally ok, or at least that's what many, gaffers included, claim.

truly the best trick the rich ever managed to pull.. convince everyone that the true leeches are at the bottom of society.