Posted on 08/18/2012 2:41:00 PM PDT by george76
Muslim immigrants with more than one wife will see an increase in their social welfare benefits beginning in 2013, when reforms to the British welfare system come into effect.
Although polygamy is illegal in Britain, the state effectively recognizes the practice for Muslim men, who often have up to four wives (and in some instances five or more) in a harem.
Currently the state pays extra wives in polygamous households reduced amounts of individual income support, in addition to the normal amount received by the husband and his first spouse.
Under the new rules, however, the extra wives will be eligible to claim a full single person's allowance (despite being married), while the original married couple will still receive the standard married person's allowance.
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The issue of Muslims with multiple wives claiming extra welfare payments has been steeped in controversy for years.
In September 2011, a British newspaper exposé on the subject found that the phenomenon of bigamy and polygamy -- permitted by Islamic Sharia law -- is far more widespread in Britain than previously believed. The rapid growth in multiple marriages is being fuelled by multicultural policies that grant special rights to Muslim immigrants, who demand that Sharia law be reflected in British law and the social welfare benefits system.
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Those women are eligible for full housing benefits – which reach £106,000 ($250,000) a year in some parts of London -- and child benefits paid at £1,000 ($1,500) a year for a first child, and nearly £700 ($1,000) for each subsequent one.
The exposé describes, by way of example, a street in a Yorkshire town on which all the residents are Pakistani women with children living on social security. There is not one man living in the street.
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>>It claims the upcoming changes will allow polygamous marriage
I guess I missed that. Exactly where?
It may be the policy to “prevent formation” but they’re handing gobs of taxpayer cash to the ones that already exist.
Good plan.....
Poles not allowed in Britain?.
Man, where have you been for the last 10 years?.
>>>>Poles not allowed in Britain?.
Man, where have you been for the last 10 years?.>>>>>
Don’t get it wrong. They are allowed but disliked by public opinion and it is not considered racist as if they were muzzies.
Rubbish.
The Poles are liked in Britain. You know nothing about the UK.
Well, you must know better so I won’t argue. A few years ago my Polish friend was working in Britain as a car mechanic. He was complaining people weren’t friendly talking about “Polish plumbers” as they called blue collar Poles stealing their jobs. I can’t say a thing first hand.
Firstly, apologies for being rude. I had a migraine when I was posting that. The post in hindsight reads with me being overly rude to you. Apologies.
Yes, there are some people who dont like Poles, although its more the swamp of immigration 1997-2010. Britain from around 2001-2007 had a huge influx of Poles and Eastern Europeans, esp the former. Due to relaxing of EU emigration laws and a lax UK immigration policy.
The Poles though generally were and are liked by the British. In fact they are now held up as examples of hard working immigrants, as opposed to a—lazy grasping immigrants, and b—lazy dole scrounging Brits, whose potential jobs the Poles quite rightly have stolen.
$250,000 a year in housing benefits???
Insanity
But don’t most Britons (like most Americans, and most people in most Western nations) want immigration to be reduced?
And didn’t Cameron campaign in part on reducing immigration?
And hasn’t he completely abandoned that position? Is he afraid of being called names?
Yes.
Yes.
No, but he has to water down his policies, as he is the Tory leader of a coalition govt.
I don’t follow British politics that much, so I’ll defer. I would have thought though with the weak economy, and it becoming clear that Labor supported increasing immigration as a means to import more supporters of the Labor party, that maybe Cameron could have followed through on what would be a popular policy change.
Then again, here in the United States, we have a poor economy, and Democrats and other leftists are becoming increasingly comfortable bragging about how mass immigration means more future Democrats...yet the GOP still stupidly goes along with a policy of unending mass immigration that will inevitably lead to demographic and electoral oblivion.
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