Rip of Britain

European migrants should be barred from claiming benefits for children who live overseas, David Blunkett said yesterday. There are an estimated 40,251 children resident in another EU country. But surely the biggest problem under EU legislation is that immigrants who come to Britain from other EU countries are entitled to receive unemployment benefits at the same level as the  country they reside in. This is truly a one sided agreement. If Immigrants from countries such as Turkey or in 2014 from Bulgaria and Romania can receive the same benefits as a British person, Now this may seem fair but if people emigrate to these countries they would receive the benefits of these countries, that are far less than in Britain  so people would not emigrate to these countries they are far better stopping at home. So logically some one from Turkey or Romania and Bulgaria who is unemployed would be financially better coming to Britain. Now EU leaders who made these benefits universal would only be universal if every EU country paid exactly the same amount no matter in which country they resided. At present this scheme is totally beneficial to people coming from former eastern block countries to Britain, and  Germany where they will gain. people going they other way would be at a financial disadvantage. Is it any wonder therefore that unemployed people will flock from these countries to the west, putting more financial pressure on the hard pressed population on Britain and Germany  The sad part is that the people in power in Brussels are not affected by these problems because basically no body is coming for their jobs.