Manchester171 wrote:Rights to stay doesn't mean rights to work.
Nor a right to welfare, free NHS, free education or social housing anymore either.
We already know that for the last 5 years, because of the ever increasing massive rises in the UK's annual welfare bill, the UK have been recording where welfare claimants were born. MAC has already reported on the billions per year the UK's welfare state is having to give to "foreign borns" via Tax Credits (for those of working age who don't work enough to keep their own families).
We also know that when the UK allows people to stay, outside the rules, that can mean they have to pay when they use the NHS. i.e.the elderly SA citizens with heart problems, who entered as a visitor but had really planned to join her family who had settled in the UK.
The UK did say four months ago that all this is part of the negoitiations. Tusk threatening is just showing the British how desparate Poland and maybe some other EEA countires are, and how heavily they rely on the British to provide for their citizens. The UK will already will know this through their records and now they know the EU is aware of this too. It's not just the loss of the UK's money to the EU budget, that will hit the EU.
They UK also said months ago that there may have already been a cut-off date as they knew there would be a rush to get to the UK before they closed their EU immigration doors. People who entered after 23 June, know the risk they took.
