IT is the economics of the madhouse – hounding out the people who create all the wealth, while providing an all-you-can-claim benefits buffet for those who contribute nothing.
This week — for the first time ever — the Department for Work and Pensions released the immigration status of claimants.
The Department for Work and Pensions have revealed the sheer scale of foreigners claiming benefits in the UKAlamy
Meanwhile taxpaying hard-working Brits have been fleeing to work in DubaiGetty
And, quite frankly, you can understand why the establishment would prefer to keep the mind-boggling statistics secret.
Because they make us look like a nation of mugs. For it turns out that a jaw-dropping, scarcely credible, 1.26million foreign nationals are on handouts provided by the British taxpayer.
Figures show that 737,799 foreign nationals on Universal Credit are unemployed, while 510,970 are in some form of work yet still receiving benefits.
The bill for the British taxpayer? Estimates run from £6billion to £12billion.
And the damning revelation comes as the UK is projected to lose 16,500 millionaires in 2025.
Labour — the wealth-despising fools — are more than happy to wave goodbye to all those rich bastards.
But the top ten per cent of taxpayers contribute over 60 per cent of all income tax receipts. The top one per cent pay an astonishing 29.6 per cent of all income tax.
And it is not just millionaires and billionaires who are getting out of the UK.
In 2023 alone, 40,000 Brits moved to Dubai, taking their income tax payments with them.
And when the wealth generators relocate — they are calling it taxodus — we are all poorer.
We are losing the grafters who create the wealth while putting out the welcome mat for more than one million who do nothing but suck hungrily from the teat of that well-milked cash cow, the British taxpayer.
This is a recipe for national bankruptcy.
We need to start talking about contributive immigration — the principle that, if you come to this country, you bring something more than the need to be looked after by the state.
We have been told that immigration is invariably good for our economy. But that is only true of contributive immigration where the newcomers work and pay tax.
And we now know that there are more than one million foreign nationals who take more from the country than they contribute.
Under the current system, anyone who has been in the UK for five years is eligible for indefinite leave to remain, meaning they have as much right to benefits such as Universal Credit, social housing and free NHS treatment as someone who has paid British taxes all their life.
This nation robs British pensioners of their heating allowance while laying on a lavish benefits buffet for the world.
That is not sustainable. It is not even sane.
We must introduce some common sense to the benefits system, and also start persuading our wealth creators — from the billionaires to the young expats relocating to Dubai — to stay in this country.
Let’s stop despising the wealth creators and start celebrating them.
And while we are at it, start showing some gratitude to all British taxpayers.
After all, we are the ones who pay for everything.
Keir Starmer is kidding himself if he believes teenagers will prop up the Labour PartyReuters
LABOUR’S ruse to give 16-year-olds the vote is clearly a desperate attempt to rig the next election.
But it will benefit the fringe parties – the Greens, Lib Dems and Reform.
If Keir Starmer thinks he holds any appeal to teenagers, he is kidding himself.
You’ve bin had Oasis
After an Oasis fan sneaked into a concern as a binman, expect security to crack down on copycatsFacebook
NO Oasis ticket? No problem!
At least, not for John Spilsbury, 42, who lacked a ticket for the band’s Saturday gig at Manchester’s Heaton Park but managed to bunk in by posing as a litter-picker.
Transport planner John simply put on his yellow hi-vis vest from work, started picking up rubbish, and wandered into the venue.
“When I saw security guys, I started picking up litter around them, and I walked right through,” John says. “I didn’t expect it to work. It was a surprise it did.”
But I bet it never works again.
When I was a lad, there was a rumour that you could bunk into the FA Cup Final by going to the greyhound racing at Wembley Stadium on the Friday night before the game (there was greyhound racing at the old Wembley from 1927 to 1998), sleep in Wembley’s toilets, then go to the final on Saturday.
When we were 15, me and my mate Jimmy Ball tried it.
Jimmy and I watched the dogs race at Wembley on Friday night, hid in the bogs when it was over and settled down for a kip, looking forward to tomorrow’s FA Cup Final.
But Wembley’s security guards let their German Shepherds off the lead at midnight. Jimmy and I were sniffed out and then booted out.
So expect to see lots of blokes at Oasis gigs wearing high-vis litter-picker jackets with their sky-blue Kangol bucket hats.
And watch them all fail to get past security.
KISS CAM DRAMA
WHY did a loved-up couple at a Coldplay concert in Boston run for cover when they were caught on Chris Martin’s kiss cam?
Because Andrew Byron, 50, and Kristin Cabot, 56, are happily married.
But sadly not to each other.
E-bikes a ride mess
Actor Robert Powell has bemoaned the misery e-bikes are bringing to residents in LondonGetty
ROBERT Powell, the Bafta-nominated lead in Jesus of Nazareth in the Seventies, says he and his wife Barbara Lord (once beautiful Babs in Pan’s People on Top of the Pops) are having their lives made a misery by the e-bikes that are piled high on their front doorstep in Highgate, north London.
“We had 100 bikes outside our front door once,” Powell says.
“The entire pavement has been blocked by bikes. You’ve got two octogenarians here who are danger of being killed.”
Our towns and cities are now plagued by the evil e-bike empire that exists beyond the laws that apply to the rest of us.
These wretched e-bikes are left in disabled bays, resident parking areas and constantly abandoned on the pavement.
The e-bike operators – Lime, Forest and the rest – dump totally absurd numbers of bikes in areas that were never intended for them. These cynical e-bike cowboys do not give a toss about the communities they are wrecking.
Robert Powell says he is “terrified” of having a heart attack as he has been forced to move ten to twelve heavy e-bikes away from his front door every day.
Are these e-bikes meant to be oh-so-green?
Because to me, they seem like the worst kind of pollution.
Prince Harry may be able to win back King Charles, but his brother is a different issueAFP
KING Charles may find it in his loving father’s heart to forgive Prince Harry for his despicable behaviour since fleeing the Royal Family.
But Prince William? Don’t hold your breath.
One of Wimbledon’s most awkward traditions continued after the latest tournamentInstagram @U_Penjanju
AS is tradition, Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek celebrated their respective Wimbledon triumphs with the first dance at the Champions’ Dinner on Sunday night.
And didn’t they look excruciatingly awkward?
This self-conscious pair are unlikely to ever be mistaken for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
“Why do they make them do it?” groaned my wife.
Because it’s tradition! Just as hardly a soul in these islands will give tennis a thought until the next Wimbledon rolls around in the summer of 2026.
We go tennis crazy for two weeks every year, then forget all about it.
It’s tradition!
Sydney and James Bond? She fancies Oscar more
Sydney Sweeney is tipped to become the new Bond girl – but she may have bigger ambitionsGetty
SYDNEY SWEENEY is widely reported to be in line for a role as a Bond girl in the next 007 film.
I really can’t see it myself. Why would Sydney Sweeney, want to be a Bond girl?
She is already one of the biggest stars in the world.
It would be a step backwards. Can you see Margot Robbie as a Bond girl? Or Zendaya? Me neither.
Check out Sweeney in Echo Valley, playing a troubled young soul with a dodgy boyfriend who makes her mum’s life hell. She looks a future Academy Award winner.
So at 27, Sydney Sweeney is probably not thinking about Bond, James Bond.
She is thinking about Oscar, her Oscar.
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