Madness! Absolute and total madness!TENS of thousands of immigrants are claiming the DOLE - just months after arriving in Britain supposedly to WORK.
In the last six years a staggering 169,000 immigrant workers claimed unemployment benefit within six months of getting a National Insurance number.
Last year alone, 21,160 lodged claims within six months - costing taxpayers £1.4MILLION a week.
The shock new figures from the Department of Work & Pensions will fuel fears that thousands of immigrants come here to take advantage of our generous welfare state.
And they shatter claims that immigrants only move to the UK to do the jobs nobody else wants to carry out.
Sir Andrew Green, of campaign group Migration Watch, blasted: "This is appalling.
"The government should explain who these people are and why they're able to claim benefits without having paid a penny into the system."
Drain
The ministry's figures reveal that last year 15,280 foreign nationals claimed jobseekers' allowance within six months, a weekly drain of £982,504 on taxpayers.
A further 2,570 claimed incapacity or disablement allowances - despite applying less than six months earlier for an NI number to work. These payments would cost £205,986 a week.
And 3,310 claimed income support, giving a weekly bill of £212,833.
Last year 590,000 new arrivals came to the UK.
And ministers admit they've no idea how many illegal immigrants are already here but estimates place the number at a million.
Britain's total benefits bill is £187billion a year but, incredibly, the government does NOT record the number of immigrants currently being paid.
A Department of Work and Pensions spokeswoman said: "Less than three per cent get benefits within six months. And the vast majority are claiming jobseekers' allowance while they look to get back to work."
How can any politician or civil servant make excuses for this?
Treaties must be ripped apart, conventions must be reappraised and rewritten or withdrawn from, new N I Numbers to school-leavers only, borders must be nailed shut until we get a grip of this spiralling and destructive problem...this cannot be allowed to continue.
Britain is broke, we make nothing of importance any more in substantial numbers to be exported, we are in debt up to our eyeballs, I just can't see how we can afford the luxury of supporting hundreds of thousands of immigrants, and no doubt their soon to arrive extended families.
We have millions of our own on benefits, why do we feel the need to import more?
It is not soft-touch Britain, it is soft-touch politicians; the ordinary people have had enough.
I just can't get my head around it; am I stupid or am I just going mad?
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