Unemployed Britons in richer EU states outnumber claimants from those countries in UK

[Killuah]

[quote]Unemployed Britons in Europe are drawing much more in benefits and allowances in the wealthier EU countries than their nationals are claiming in the UK,[B] despite the British government’s arguments about migrants flocking in to the country to secure better welfare payments.[/B]

At least 30,000 British nationals are claiming unemployment benefit in countries around the EU, research by the Guardian has found, based on responses from 23 of the 27 other EU countries.

The research shows more than four times as many Britons obtain unemployment benefits in Germany as Germans do in the UK, while the number of jobless Britons receiving benefits in Ireland exceeds their Irish counterparts in the UK by a rate of five to one.[/quote]

[url]http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/-sp-thousands-britons-claim-benefits-eu?CMP=share_btn_fb[/url]

So what about those anti-immigrant news recently?

[Used Car Salesm]

I wish we all could lay the "Hoards of brown people swarming over to mooch off our welfare system" narrative to rest. It's obviously not true...like, anywhere.

[Jamsponge]

Britain being about British isn't enough. We need to stop those Muslamic rayguns everywhere- we need [I]Europe[/I] to be about British.

[DokVis]

EU should close its borders with the UK, those damn Brits are going to clam all their benefits.

[ubermensch]

You just have to watch TV programmes like Benefits Street to see the mentality of some British people. Not surprised.

[skoinks]

[QUOTE=UberMensch;46971438]You just have to watch TV programmes like Benefits Street to see the mentality of some British people. Not surprised.[/QUOTE]

A passing glance at the Daily Mail's front-page on the way to uni is enough for me, thank you.

[butt2089]

[quote] at 15,000, the biggest single EU nationality drawing UK jobseeker’s allowance, against just two Britons recorded as receiving Polish unemployment benefit[/quote]

Exactly two Brits claiming unemployment benefits in Poland, what the hell :v:

[Rossy167]

[QUOTE=UberMensch;46971438]You just have to watch TV programmes like Benefits Street to see the mentality of some British people. Not surprised.[/QUOTE]

I don't get it is a mentality like this exclusive to us Brits? There are arsehats everywhere, regardless of nationality.