@NFWPerhaps you should go and work for a year with what you call the underclass, a pretty odious term which is only one step removed from the revolting words for such people I have heard talked about in Germany.Perhaps you don't know much about people in poverty. For instance, you said you had to go and think hard about my question.The people who ARE entitled to Benefits are signposted by Foodbank volunteers to the appropriate people to get them out of the worst of the briny. The intent is to give them some control again over their lives so they can manage starvation rations a little more healthily and economically. They are signposted to people who can help with the direst aspects of their finances and housing. Not all accept this assistance. However I have yet to, and hopefully never will, see a dead body in our fields or streets. Those that do accept help generally don't all keep coming back every week or three weeks or whatever. However there are plenty who do not use food banks but who are on Benefits. The majority it would seem have worked out how to survive - albeit with a struggle.Immigration has been out of control for a pretty long time and much of that has happened under Labour administrations. If Mr loudmouth Farage gained any power Labour would deservedly be on a hiding to nothing. I think you are saying the people outside the system should be cared for. It would be almost inhuman to disagree. However the millions actually in the system get worse or no housing, less money to feed themselves and their dependants, and are pushed out of employment due to people illegally here who are OUTSIDE our system and nick our jobs.We look after our parents. We look after our children. We care for and some look after our locality. Alice Gross is a stunning example. We admire our soldiers and one and a quarter Ealing policemen who fight for our freedom. Are we to give the same care and practical rights to those outside the system when they give nothing or little back into our system?The increasing number of people outside our system are weakening and so preventing our treasuries from paying for a better life for our own. Unlike those outside the system, our own pay taxes. Thinly stretched treasuries mean there is less money to go round. Londoners at the ballot box don't care anymore.You so far have not drawn us a line. As some journalist asked recently, are you a Brit or are you Brit.....ish?
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