Wednesday, April 23, 2008

British Welfare Re-cycled?


As Britain progressed through the post-war years so there seemed less and less need for welfare to take a prominent role in the country. However of recent times, stories abound of a welfare system that has risen from the ashes so to speak.

This appears to have been in response to the new influx of migrants as the officials fall over each other to assist a ready provided workforce for a work shy nation?

There certainly is a need to assist new migrants and this was poorly approached many years ago in England and its colonies and history has the stories. Now it would seem they have attempted to right the wrongs of the past and provide more generously. The only snag appears to be that the Indigenous peoples of the nation feel left out of all this. Whilst they still struggle to enjoy and pay for life in general, they feel that the newcomers are being treated better than they.

Is this a common misperception perhaps, as I doubt if the newcomers will continue to receive 'new migrant' benefits for ever more. This surely is a transitionary arrangement to ease them into their new country and new lives. Whether we need all these immigrants at all is of course another discussion completely.

Undoubtedly this initial output of finances will reap rewards in the future as the new migrants contribute to the general wealth of the country and I feel sure that there is some boffin somewhere who is already crunching the figures and can demonstrate this fact.

Finance is finance and welfare is welfare and perceptions or misperception are a different thing altogether and the three don't necessarily mix well.

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