Serious question
How would you deal with British scroungers? Not making a point here.

Say `We shouldn't support scoungers' and you may as well start bandying phrases such as `Back to Basics', `Means testing' and `Get on Your Bike'.

For the record I think there are too many scroungers in this country. No matter where they come from.
(Audax Victor, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 16:16, 2 replies)

response
"How would you deal with British scroungers?"

That's a very difficult question. It's not for me to decide what to do as the what to do depends on what the desired outcome is.

There are a near infinite number of possibilities from "give nobody anything" to "give everybody everything", each with economic and social costs.

But just because "working out how to deal with scroungers" is hard doesn't mean we should ignore it and go for "send immigrants home" because it's an easier option.
(phyphor, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 16:38, closed)

Not disagreeing with you
The `too many immigrants' thing is a seperate issue to that of `scroungers'.

Saying that, the `We've got enough scroungers of our own' thing is conflated by some to justify open borders...and of course you're never going to stop good old-fashioned work dodgers are you?

Not without going further right than man has ever gone before...and I'm guessing that most of the people who use this argument wouldn't say `fair enough' if a country with no `native scroungers' started `sending back' forrin ones too - I'm guessing they'd be described as `racist twunts'.
(Audax Victor, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 18:08, closed)

If I were Prime Minister...
I would simply make it so that it was ALWAYS more profitable to choose to work and earn money, than it is to claim benefits.

There are several ways of implementing this. But basically, make it so that the safety net is there - so that if you lose your job you will still be able to survive. But it should be impossible to be a lifestyle choice to be on benefits.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 16:40, closed)