Cleg To Block More Curbs On Eu Migrants.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2527851/Clegg-says-hell-block-curbs-immigrants-EU.html

/// The Deputy Prime Minister dismissed Home Office proposals for a 75,000 cap on EU migrants as 'pointless' and claimed without freedom of movement the National Health Service would 'fall over'. ///

Could a cap on the freedom of movement cause the National Health Services to 'fall over' or could it help to 'pick it up'?

Is this crack in the coalition the beginning of the end to this unworkable partnership?

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON

/// ANOTHEOLDGIT, when you say 'small amount' what figure is that? ///

Can't be very much, I believe many are working for under minimum wages, and many more are working in lowly paid jobs, those that our own do not wish to take, (or at least that is what we are constantly told), and I can't see many highly paid skilled and professional workers coming.

[New Judge]

You will note the inverted commas around “will not do“, Zeuhl.

They only refuse to undertake this work because successive governments have allowed such refusals to pass without sanction and to make living on benefits a more attractive option than picking vegetables for £250pw.

The fault for allowing this situation to continue lies with government who would sooner dish out wheelbarrow loads of taxpayers’ cash to people already here to enable them to sit on their ar5es whilst at the same time importing labour at (as I have demonstrated) even more cost to the Exchequer.

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLDGIT, the folk on low wages must be buying things to survive so they will be paying VAT even if they are not paying other taxes.

[New Judge]

Most of the goods you need to survive (food, children's clothes) are not subject to VAT. Even energy (also needed to survive) is taxed at the lower rate of 5%.

[modeller]

All these caps are meaningless because if you are 'self employed ' you automatically qualify for benefits within hours of arriving in this country and all they have to do is to buy and sell one copy of the Big Issue and that counts as self employment. This has been pointed out in other threads.

In this area it seems to be the Roma women who are doing all the selling . I wonder where the men are ? Collecting the benefits maybe ?

Cameron has left it too late to clamp down on immigration and no one believes he will be able to get a satisfactory deal with the EU.
We know that under Labour it would be worse , they wont even offer us a referendom . Maybe they could get a couple of concessions from the EU by giving away the rest of our rebate like Blair.

It looks as if we will end up with endless , largely powerless coalitions serving a single EU Empire . A bit like the Roman Empire and we know what finally happened to that .