I am reviewing my old links… this one is a cracker.
Cutting long story short:
On Tuesday, March 18 at 4.30pm, little boy named Gurrinder wandered into a health clinic in Southall, West London. Gurrinder doesn’t speak English, so he is a little bit like some m*f*king Polish, but he is from India, so that’s fine and he is fluent in Punjabi. And… he is not here to take any job. That’s most important, but read on!
He said he had just arrived in the area “on a bendy bus”. then he says he had been abandoned by his English-only speaking “white uncle”, whom he couldn’t name but claims to spend last three years with him…
Officers are concerned that there is a well-organised crime network which smuggles children – some as young as four – from around the globe into Britain and then uses them to milk our generous state benefits system.
One scenario now likely to be examined is that Gurrinder’s mother – deliberately left him at the health clinic in London so that he would be found by the authorities and given asylum with state benefits and housing.
Then, she would claim him – thus entitling herself to state help as his carer.
Official figures – which are likely to be an underestimate – show that every year, 5,500 foreign children turn up in this country (…)
Fuck. And the Polish immigrants are just working and paying taxes. What a lack of creativity – dumb arses!
Full story – click here.
Tags: asylum, benefits, benefits system, children smugling, Department for Work and Pensions, Gurrinder, Gurrinder Singh, immigration, India, London, Polish, polish migrants, Polish workers, Polish workers in the UK, Punjabi, Singh, trafficking
April 12, 2008 at 9:59 pm
So what’s your point?
It sounds a little bit like you are suggesting that Indians are notorious fraudsters while Poles are fools for being honest working folk.
Hmmm… sounds familiar
April 13, 2008 at 8:07 am
Let me put it this way….
I personally don’t think UK Indians working and living here would get state benefits more often or in bigger share… However, the DM story is about a probable large scale action undertaken by a ring trafficking people and organized to get them into the UK for state benefits.
My comment was ironic. Because Daily Mail is so anti-Polish I expected them to mention something abouth “them stupid Poles”.
Daily Mail i usually very hostile towards Polish people in the UK. It is, really.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/15/dailymail.pressandpublishing
The only about Daily Mail is that average Pole working here don’t give a fuck about buing this xenphobic shit.
Otherwise it would be like in the Poland, way too much politics, discussions and way too much media wank around it.
Instead what we’ve got here is a quiet life of a fieldhand being paid each Friday. And that’s absolutely fine with me.
April 14, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Well ok then. Not my place to judge, but you must concede this post had a whiff of generalization about it. I’d be willing to bet that somewhere there’s a gang of crooks who happen to be Polish who are deliberately milking the benefit system (not to mention a gang of Romanians, or Chinese, or Somalis etc).
I wouldn’t get too excited about the Daily Mail, it exists to outrage, and very successful it is too.
April 14, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Interesting link btw. Do let us know the outcome of the complaint, if you hear it.
April 17, 2008 at 6:54 pm
You do realise illegal child trafficing happens all the time right? Most of the time from Africa. The Punjabi word for white man is ‘Gora’. Gora also means fair skinned. For all we know it could be a fair skinned north Indian!