Re we do have a duty to help those xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx totally agree, and if I had my way, persons who lay their lives on the line for us,eg members of the Armed Forces and their dependants would be at the top of the list, especially War Widows. And those who are genuinely disabled , and there are loads of fakes, that I have known , who have never worked, drive around in cars all day, sire kid after kid, live the life of Reilly at our expense, makes me wanna vomit. Sadly it is the nature of some who want to see others work. A few nights ago, my original Iraqi friend was here , moaning he wants a bigger flat. He arrived in a Jag 6 cyl, taxed, insured so he says, his mother and sister were here for 10 years in a flat overlooking Hyde Park. He has never worked since he fled to UK from Sadaam in 1999, everything paid for by UK taxpayers, suffers from one-time drug abuse and depression, long spells in Secure Accomodation. Mother married to father, he naturalised hard working retired professor, 5 bed house in the shires, which the wife found boring, so she joins her son years ago in London, somehow gets the flat etc courtesy of UK taxpayers. How do they do it, we are being ripped off wholesale. She has 3 houses in Baghdad, one built to order on the outskirts, where she went back to recently having been in Syria for 12 months, the flat in London still kept on until not so long ago, but she apparently wants to come back to UK, so more expense for UK taxpayers. And those are just 2 of many I have known personally. What really upsets me is to learn of ex forces personnel living rough on the streets, to those people we owe every help possible,in my opinion.
Tony Price ● 5042d