Dan Hannan has highlighted the case of the Flemish town of Vaals, as has Ian Parker-joseph that is using the EU law on free movement of EU citizens to prevent migrants from across Europe settling in their town that simply have no means of support other than benefits from the host state.
Libertarian Party policy to be seen shortly on www.libertarianpartyuk.com in manifesto and policy sections would be for free movement of all people across all borders to have employment. However whilst welfarism rewards migrants to move to Britain with at least the promise of entitlement under the welfare state, this is a policy that could not be implemented without as Hannan says bankrupting the state.
As a Town councillor I am not sure whether my fellow councillors are aware that they have power like Vaals, because the benefits system is largely a function of the State run from Whitehall. However Housing Benefit and other benefits are administered locally.
The EU seems to have drawn itself into a potential political maelstrom with increasing unemployment and hostility to immigration across Europe.
Under the old parish Poor Law, the 'guardians' were entitled to drive the poor not born in the parish across the parish boundary so as not to be a charge on the ratepayers. Are we to see this ugly side of welfarism start again ?
Why is it?
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