800K of Polish immigrants in UK don't pay taxes -what do the poles think

noimmigration, are you for real? you said you were a Law student? i should think a Law student reads more serious stuff than the daily star and is not gullible/stupid enough to believe everything he/she reads/hears in the media as the media like to exaggerate things just to sell?!? are you sure you are a Law student? cuz i started doubting that long time ago...

plus, if the uk didn`t have so many freakin benefits `on offer` you wouldn`t have to complain right now (with the currect situation, i suggest you complain to your government, not to the members of this forum). there will always be people who take advantage of a benefits system, doesn`t mean that all polish do it, doesn`t mean that all british do it. some do, regardles of their nationality.

You read really credible magazines NoImmi..

It could mean a lot, because foreign citizens once they have lived legally here for 5 years or more can apply to be British citizens. Therefore all those Poles who came in 2004 can this year be British citizens. Then you can not slag them off, because they will be British, just like you.

Funny, in a lot of th schemes where I used to live there were brigades of rabbit-style-breeding chavs and neds who seemed to want to repopulate the world befor they hit 20. Many of these indigenous tribes had not worked for a good while... so how were they paying tax.

Another point... a lot of the immigrants who ar working are paying into an NI fund they will probably never use. It'll help pay your pension when you retire from the call-centre job you'll probably have after graduation.

And nobody is criticising you for getting an education... just for being a prat.

How do you work that out? Why do people automatically assume becaus someone has citizenship, it makes them "British" If someone gets Polish citizenship, does that make them Polish?

In my humble opinion, British citizens are those who were born and raised here, rather than those that become British citizens because it makes "economic sense" to fill in a form under the Union Jack.

Much depends on what is called in private international family law (PIFL), habitual residence, Mister H. It was one of my postgrad essays. If I remember correctly, the terminology was 'settled intention'. Dr Eric Clive is one of the main writers in this area. I disagreed with him on what constitutes habitual residence.

I think many Poles have a settled intention not to return to Poland. As such, PIFL is on their side.

However, I also feel that citizenship should be harder to get. Owing to the current lax immigration laws, floods of people flock in their droves and only need stay 5 years to be granted citizenship status. I agree with Mister H that we shouldn't grant it as a matter of convenience. As long as they make the distinction between British citizen and British national. I see the merits of multiculturalism but we can't afford to let all and sundry occupy our burdened, recession-hit little island.

Is that it's name, seriously? PIFL... I would have thought someone would have noticed that one before they started using it.

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LOL, PIFL it is. We make things easier in our lives by shortening things.