Quote Originally Posted by baggieal View Post
Agree with almost all of your points but rightly or wrongly when taxes rise in November and the cost of living is even more of a struggle - naturally many will blame illegal immigration even more.

You have hit the nail on the head about parenting as usually a child is a product of the parent. Take the UAE it?s a rich country but you get nothing for sitting on your backside - many construction workers from all over work around 14 hours a day there. In life or some countries there are no hand outs. You work or you starve.

One of the biggest problems in this country is the entitlement to benefits. Also the attitude why work if you can get the same on benefits. Pip cases have gone through the roof ( yes there?s many genuine ones obviously ) but it?s easy to con a GP with mental illness or back problems, Many do! They are now looking at stopping benefits if you go on holiday as the passport will detect this. Good as benefits should be for emergency living and not getting
P issed in Magaluf!

With the government turnaround in fuel payments - how many received payments who didn?t need them or were sitting on fat pensions or substantial equity in properties? I know at least two couples who donated their payments to charity! Incredible!

My own kids have good jobs because it was drummed into them a good education sets you up for life. It?s so true. My youngest will get into a top uni ( might even be Oxford ) because of her own merit and working her socks off.

All these illegals whilst being processed should be tagged and earn their shelter/food whether it?s fruit picking - cleaning or whatever. I am sure many would be happy with this otherwise a refusal should be deportation.

In life there?s no such thing as a free lunch but in the U.K. that?s not true because we are too soft.
PIP definitely needs an overhaul. I can tell you from experience, that having fought hard enough to get DLA for our youngest who has autism and dystonia that the transition to get him PIP once he had reached that age was very far from straightforward though!

The main problem with PIP is that there are far too few assessors and, of these, far too many are not properly qualified. This allows far too many deserving cases to not be awarded it whilst simultaneously allowing less deserving cases to scam the system. The sheer number of applications these days has resulted too often in the most cursory of assessments with little physical examination and a very broad set of questions for a score card that applicants can too easily find on-line coaching to answer.

As for your last idea that those awaiting asylum processing should be put to work (preferably public service work in my opinion) to help contribute towards their keep, I totally agree with you and doubt that genuine cases would object. Having said that, given the huge costs of keeping someone in prison, I feel the same should be the case there too.