I did telephone the Web editor to ask permission for this, so here goes.
THIS BENEFIT RACKET
IS A GROSS INSULT TO
BRITISH TAXPAYERS
If you could be guaranteed to win the jackpot on the National Lottery on Wednesday evening would you buy a ticket for it? It's a ridiculous question, of course you would.
Let's put it another way. If you were born and grew up in one of the poorest and most violent countries in the world would you leave it if you became aware of an alternative country that was both relatively peaceful and would keep you in the lap of luxury for the rest of your days? Of course you would.
So who can blame Nasra Warsame and her husband Bashir Aden for enjoying to the fullest extent the largesse of the British welfare state? This Somalian-born couple and their eight British-born children are in receipt of an astonishing £1,600 a week in housing benefit.
Mrs Warsame and seven of the children reside in a £1.8million London townhouse. It has six bedrooms-some with balconies-four bathrooms and three sitting rooms. Unemployed Mr Aden and another child live in a council flat nearby.
The per capita annual income of Somalia is estimated at $600 (about £400). Average life expectancy is 48 years. According to the Encylopaedia Of The Nations, "the typical Somali house is either a cylindrical hut with a conical thatched roof or rectangular hut with an angular roof of thatch or metal". Presumably no balconies, then.
Life in London also affords this couple, who have both been granted British citizenship, full access to the National Health Service (Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, we have recently learned, does a widely- admired line in special baby care costing taxpayers £1,400 a day per infant but free to users from all over the world). Then there are all the other unemployment and family-related benefits expanded by Labour in its crusade against child povety.
Cases such as that of the Warsame-Adens are at the extreme end of the spectrum but are far from uncommon. Most of us recall the equally shocking story of the Afghan migrant Toorpaki Saiedi, who was put up with her seven children in a seven-bedroom house in West London that cost more than £12,000 a month in housing benefit. Altogether her family had a taxpayer-funded income of £170,000. The average income per head in Afghanistan is $800 (approx£650) while life expectancy is 44 years.
Let's return to the lottery for a moment. Remember that syndicate of overjoyed BT workers in Liverpool who won about £5million each a few weeks back? Well, their lives are no doubt being transformed as we speak.
Let's assume each of them has had the good sense to invest the winnings prudently and secures a five per cent annual return. That would give each of them £250,000 a year to live on, about 10 times the average household income in Britain. How many of us would love to have such a thing happen to us?
Yet for Third World immigrants with big families a much more dramatic lifestyle transformation is up for grabs. This nation is a guaranteed winning lottery ticket for them provided they can get in.
The British State will pay them money at a level only enjoyed by the most privileged in their countries of origin. It will house them in conditions available only to warlords and princes back home.
There are many countries in the world as poor as Somalia and Afghanistan: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Niger, Liberia, Burundi, Zimbabwe, ans Sierra Leone to name but a few. Many other very populous countries such as India, Bangladesh and Pakistan are only a little richer.
No wonder so many people from such countries are so determined to penetrate our borders by legal or illegal means. Many die during the journey, drowned trying tocross the Gulf of Aden or the Mediterranean. Others live in squalor in French channel ports waiting for people-smugglers to spirit them to Britain.
Given their desperate circumstances it is perhaps rather callous them "welfare tourists". But it is beyond dispute that there is an almost unlimited supply of them and that this country is already buckling under the strain. Hopelessly lax benefit rules based upon estimates of "need" rather than genuine entitlement are creating an enormously strong pull factor that reaches across the globe and draws a tidal wave of humanity towards us.
These benefits jackpot cases have another severely detrimental effect. The already demoralised taxpayers of Britain, working the longest hours in Europe are struggling to stay afloat in the recession, are left to question their sanity.
Why should they bother to be self-reliant when a life of leisure can be had simply by reproducing? Supporting the domestic underclass is one thing and it is truly galling to see them being kept in flatscreen TVs and the new season's football shirts while contributing little but delinquency in return. But finding your duty extends to the poor of other countries who pitch up in Britain is an outrageous imposition.
Our political class tut-tuts such conclusions as being mean-spirited. It can afford to - most of its members also live in taxpayer funded luxury. For it to offer all-comers, via taxpayer funded benefits, standards of living far higher than those enjoyed by the vast majority of working people is a sign of its decadence and a betrayal of everything that made this country great.
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Thank you Patrick O'Flynn. It is a great relief to know that at least someone can read the lie of the land and has the courage to write it as it is.
Westminster has now had its day. Tomorrow I'm going to the local 'paper and I intend placing an advertisement for Taxpayers, employers and employees, to put together an alternative system of Public Service Funding, based on the County Council Structure. I did speak to the Business Manager at the Bank and they also think it now time to act. The advert' will be in next Wednesdays 'Paper, the 9th. Dec.
By the way, the Express and this article are at-: http://www.express.co.uk/
Well past my bedtime, so I'll say good night.
Kind Regards, ATFlynn, "Norfolk's Mutineer"
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