malwajatt wrote:To luckapooka and newperson,
The value elderly add to this useless exchequer is that their kids are high rate tax payers into it and not claiming a single penny.
People who have parents are not going to leave them alone, they will either fight legal cases to challenge the government or leave the country with their skills.
That will just leave people like u in this country to get old with a crumbling nhs system all to yourself.
Malwajatt
First reaction: Meh.
Second reaction: As an immigrant to the UK myself, I know for a fact that the argument "
If the Home Office does/doesn't do X, everyone will leave the country with their skills" carries
no weight with the policy muckalucks in this or any other Government. They just don't care. As long as the UK has a marginally better quality of life relative to any other country in this wide world, people will want to move there. When that changes, the migrant tap will turn off and the flow reverse.
Third reaction: The UK is a welfare state. India, Bangladesh, Brazil, etc. are not welfare states. Welfare states cost money. So even if it is a great hypocrisy in which UK natives are trying relentlessly to cheat their own system, Governments will go through the motions of trying to keep out individuals whom they (or rather the public) consider to be an unreasonable drain on the system.
Fourth reaction: Don't take this so personally. It's just a policy position. I don't hate you. The Government doesn't hate you. In fact, the Government
nothings you. Come to terms with that indifference and you'll go far.
Good luck.
