have I read this right?

[airesgal]

I read in the papers today, and heard on the radio, that child benefit is being paid (or at least claimed) to foreign workers in this country, when the children (if they actually exist) are back in their homeland. The figure I read is there are some 50,000 claims in the pipeline. any thoughts on this?

[samuel23]

There are a load of self serving, sponging bureaucrats that will give you a lot of very good reasons why we should expand the EU. All of those reasons are cloaked in mealy mouthed 'bon mots' and disguise the real reason - which is about how much they will get in salary and benefits. The more countries that are in the EU the longer it takes to make any sort of compromise and reasonable decision about anything. Therefore the more they will earn in expenses, the greater their chance of staying on the EU gravy train and the more they get to travel executive class yet still free of charge. Did you get to vote for the people you wanted to represent us in europe? No you didn't, but then we all got to vote for the present government (so we actually did vote these parasites in by default) and we were stupid enough to give them yet another term in office!