WE'LL GET £15K A YEAR FROM BRITAIN.. SAVE IT UP &
ALL GO THERE TO LIVE
By Daniel Jones The People.co.uk
A GIPSY family from Romania can't wait for their
chance to come to Britain- to grab a staggering £15,000 A YEAR in state
benefits.Aurel Iorgu, wife Fanica and their five young
children currently live in squalor in a tworoom mud hut and struggle to survive
on only £2,000 a year.
But as Romania prepares to join the European
Union in January, Aurel can look forward to a 750 PER CENT pay rise compliments
of UK taxpayers. All he has to do is scrape together a few pounds
for a cheap air-fare to Luton, find himself a job as an unskilled worker and
rush to the nearest Jobcentre. Under barmy EU rules, he would immediately be
able to claim British tax credits and child benefit - even though his kids will
be 1,200 miles away in Romania. Fanica, 32, said: "It is great for us and we are
very excited.
"I can stay here in Romania with the children
and Aurel can earn wages and get this free money sent back for the family. We
can save - and maybe if we have enough we can all come to England." The same deal applies to tens of thousands of
other poverty-stricken families in Romania and its neighbour Bulgaria when they
become EU members next year. And it already covers the 600,000 people who
have poured into Britain since the last batch of East European nations joined
the EU in 2004 - costing taxpayers £25million in child benefit alone.
The Iorgu family live in abject poverty in a
village near the Romanian capital Bucharest. Aurel and Fanica share their house - which has
no loo - with children Marian, 12, Elena, nine, Viorel, seven, Luci, four, and
two-year-old Vasile.They get just £80 a month in earnings and £80 in
state benefits - less than £2,000 A YEAR.But in Britain, Aurel would pocket £907.40 a
year for his first child and £608.40 for each additional one - a total of
£3,341. The family would also pick up £11,715 in tax credits, making a total of
£15,056 A YEAR.
Fanica said: "We prayed to Jesus for a better
life. Now it seems that our prayers have been answered." She added: "Tony Blair is a nice man. He's very
generous to poor people like us and we are very grateful." Warnings that there will be a mass exodus from
Romania and Bulgaria come as no surprise to community leaders there.Aurel's
village elder Gheorge Posescu said: "Why wouldn't they? Look around you - we
have mud for roads and shacks for homes. To them, this is free money."
Thousands of other families in the region share
the Iorgus' dream of a life beyond their wildest dreams in Britain. Hard-up Arpad Bodea lives in a squalid shack
only a few miles from the Transylvanian village where Prince Charles has just
acquired a holiday home. Incredibly, FOURTEEN people are crammed into the
tiny home - Arpad, 46, wife Vasibi, 38, and children Marcel and Alex, 17, Iona,
14, Nicosor, 12, Adrian, eight, Simi, seven, Nicusor, six, Remus and Remeu,
five, pregnant Margareta, 21, her husband Ioan, 24, and their son Alex, two.
Ioan said: "Myself and Arpad will come to
England to pick fruit and vegetables. That way I will have enough money for our
child when he is born in January and Arpad will have enough for all his
children."Romanians and Bulgarians are targeting Britain
as rich states like Germany and France refuse to let them work - which means
they don't qualify for benefits.But Britain has agreed to take in 20,000
unskilled workers - sparking a stampede for passports in the two nations.
Despite claims by Home Secretary John Reid that the Government will make sure
there will be no flood of immigrants, current laws mean anyone from the region
can travel to Britain.
And although there are quotas on unskilled
labour, there are NONE for the self-employed.Worse, anyone caught working illegally in
Britain can only be fined £1,000. And under European laws, they CANNOT be
deported. Benefits rules in Britain involve a maze of red
tape. But incomers can pay for help from "immigration
consultants" like Polish expert Przemyslaw Szymanski, who was highlighted in The
People last month. HM Revenue and Customs confirmed Romanians and
Bulgarians can claim tax credits and child benefits - even if their children do
not live in the UK.But Sir Andrew Green, of the Migrationwatch UK
think-tank, said: "This defies common sense."The Government should have negotiated a
reduction in benefits to take account of the lower costs of living in Eastern
Europe."Instead, they left the British taxpayer to pick
up the bill."
Intre timp ,noi am trimis un e-mail autorului pe care il publicam mai jos.In momentul in care vom primi un raspuns de la Mr. Daniels Jones,il vom publica de asemenea.
Having read what you, Mr Daniel Jones had to say ,I can not ignore the optimism that overflows through out the article. Certainly, having had a beer ,it did help.( I am not insinuating that your readers should drink few pints ,before attempting to read your daring article; perhaps only the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express, and other few other media 'true brits' at heart, would dare to do it ). Filtering the information always makes a good article. Personally I wouldn’t be bother to read it, if the article itself was concentrating on good things about Romania. I just love the dirty little secrets made public by you, and I am sure you already know ,what common people like me ,likes to read. Hopefully, next time I can read about you taking time out of your busy schedule ,only to save babies when they are thrown at tourists, by gypsies with missing teeth (after they bribed the dentist to take them out before hand) and then having your wallet stolen ,while you are diving to save those poor gypsy babies from an imminent death . Or even better if you write about meeting two Romanians ,stealing from ATM machines and then they asks you for advice if you think that it will be better, to steal the whole cash machine and selling it for parts later.
As I have become a new fan of your article ,I am asking for your permission to reproduce your point of view on www.easteurope.org.uk in order to make sure that other people will be enlightened by your wisdom.
Regards
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