Britain's Borderless Benefits.
A welfare state open to every human alive, paid for by British taxpayers.
Half of Earth’s population makes less than $250 a month, according to the World Bank. They also say half a billion earn less than $2.15 a day. The world is, and always has been, mostly made up of extremely poor people. Most countries are also run by unbelievably corrupt governments, and many have irreparably backward cultures that will forever stunt their growth until their society matures. Political corruption in most of the world would make Western politicians look like angels. Across the developing world, not a shred of wealth or power goes unstolen.
Many cultures around the world are still deeply rooted in barbarism. The racial animosity across most of the world would make even the most hardcore American racists blush. From widespread machete genocides to the eradication of an entire religion, most of our planet has not moved past a cultural dark age. There are parts of the world where women are stoned to death in terror and excruciating pain for the crime of being raped. There are governments that murder women for not covering their hair and faces in public. There are militias and paramilitary groups with great political power that are constantly executing people for arbitrary reasons, such as belief or sexuality. There are entire groups of people that mutilate the labia of little girls with rocks. There are even parts of the world where there are still tens of thousands of child slaves.
It paints a bleak picture. In the West, we’ve risen above most of that cruel barbarism. Such concepts as “all men are created equal” and “innocent until proven guilty” are almost purely Western inventions. Even the very word “racism” and the idea that this is a societal evil are relatively new phenomena, invented by the West. Most foreign nations outside of the West still feel centuries behind, and their leaders are cruel, torturous, genocidal, thieving kleptocrats. These leaders and the societies that permit them are born aloft by their own native people. The Founding Fathers of America and the generations of liberal thinkers from Europe concluded in many ways that governments should never wield weapons like this, that there should be just and valid reasons for a government to wield power, and that people should be free to pursue their needs. It is this foundation of liberal democracy that has given the West a great deal of wealth, unlocking the incredible potential of people left alone to pursue their own interests, unhumiliated by their government and unimpeded by criminals.
There are cultures that categorically do not accept many of these liberal beliefs. Some cultures can’t allow women to be as free as men. Some cultures cannot let you speak freely. Some cultures will suborn your murder for creating insulting artwork. It is only off the back of Western human rights organisations that many of the disgusting crimes of barbarous people, such as slavery, stoning, and the use of rape as punishment or as a weapon, are far rarer than they used to be. These problems still exist despite the work that Westerners have done to erase them.
The relevance to immigration is simple: there are deeply contemptible, incompatible, and barbarous attitudes out there that must never be allowed to seep into British society. There is no home in Britain for a man who believes it is his religious duty to kill someone who converts out of his religion. There is no place in this country for someone who would murder for the crime of drawing. This is where the importance of conservatism as a Ying to the liberal Yang sits. Britons have forever wanted a free and liberal nation, but it only works when society and the people live in some level of homogeneity. The liberal nation needs a broad culture of people who believe in shared values. When vastly different and completely backward cultures are introduced to the United Kingdom, it shocks the system, as tolerance towards intolerance is preached by the most ignorant, least wise, and often youngest liberals in society. The very real and present dangers existent in the world expose the shortsighted naivety of radical concepts such as "multiculturalism," the idea that the native culture needs to ‘move over’ or ‘shift’ or ‘adapt’ to foreign cultures, regardless of what barbarism those foreign cultures are rooted in.
Britons have an extraordinarily powerful moral compass. It drives us and our culture to commit endless acts of charity and kindness. We have high volunteer rates, extremely high charitable contributions, and a vast network of hardworking charities and churches that do a lot for people in moments of great need. But this kindness, in both charity and tolerance, is being abused. It results in both a colossal waste of taxpayer money and the marginalisation of the native culture. In this article, we focus on the financial losses that Britons endure at the hands of a mess of immigration systems.
Routes into Britain.
Legal Immigration.
One route to permanent residence in Britain is through skilled work visas. After 5 years of “skilled work," you can apply to become a permanent resident of the United Kingdom, known as Indefinite Leave to Remain. There are some other types that are shorter: 2 or 3 years for start-up and innovator visas. At this point, a wide variety of benefits open up to the individual. After another year, you’ll get the opportunity to become a British citizen.
One issue with this type of visa is that it means companies can hire people from overseas at drastically reduced rates compared to hiring natives. It not only costs the locals their opportunities, but it also marginalises them from their own homes, pushing them out of the cities and eventually into the more rural areas. There are lots of young Britons that need to be brought out of the hammock of lifelong benefits and back into work, and resources are spent turning them into those very skilled workers that are apparently needed.
Asylum Seeking and Refugees.
If you are granted asylum in the UK, you will be granted a Refugee Status Certificate. Even if you’re broken into the country and are a victim of human trafficking, your refugee status will grant you leave to remain, which leads to ILR. After another year, you can apply to become a British citizen. Most claimants claim asylum while living abroad and then travel to the UK. About 20% claim asylum while already inside the UK.
It’s an extremely attractive proposition for anyone in the world. It’s why we have refugees from the most benign parts of the world, such as Ghana, Egypt, and Albania. It’s led to what is now known as “economic immigration," where foreigners claim refugee status in the UK simply in order to access a higher standard of living and potentially a better salary. Although it is a noble goal for an individual, it is a disaster for the United Kingdom. The entire country cannot handle the sheer volume of people who are constantly trying to enter the UK on the false pretence that they’re under threat.
Human Trafficking.
This is the most insidious form of immigration to Britain. It is a vile crime, and the victims are tricked, humiliated, tortured, enslaved, often ransomed, and many die in horrific circumstances during the journey. Human traffickers use trucks, small boats, shipping containers, and more to get random foreign citizens into the UK. We don’t know who is breaking in, why they’ve broken in, what their intentions are, or how they intend to live and work; we don’t know any of those critical details. Making sure people can survive and thrive in the UK is important. Making sure rapists, paedophiles, murderers, gangsters, war criminals, terrorists, and active enemy combatants don’t enter the UK is also important.
Gangsters that deal in human trafficking often use TikTok and Instagram to advertise their services. There are two main selling points: one, access to benefits, and two, access to indigenous British girls. The benefits are bountiful and easily accessible, meaning you don’t need to work or be a legitimate asylum seeker to access free money and housing. You can also get connected with gangsters who will rent you a Deliveroo account or make you deliver drugs (known as “shotting”). As for access to indigenous British women, they’re advertised as akin to prostitutes, with videos from nightclubs and OnlyFans content being used to entice foreign perverts into buying services from human traffickers. Sadly, both of these advertisement techniques work very well. The National Crime Agency estimated that £183 million has been made by these gangs in 2022 alone. Some of the victims are paying as much as £15k to get in, with prices usually between £4k and £8k.
What are the costs to British taxpayers?
A great deal of immigration, including asylum seekers and illegal immigrants, is extraordinarily expensive. It comes down mostly to the fact that many don’t speak adequate (or any) English, most do not know anything about living in the UK, many don’t have any skills, and there are tremendous costs associated with policing, crime, healthcare, and schooling. On top of this, many more have to have their homes paid for by taxpayers and also given money on top of it. In the Netherlands between 1995 and 2019, financial support programmes have lost the country €400bn (nearly half a trillion) on expenditures on education, healthcare, justice, social security, and allowances. The same issues that cause this drastic spending in the Netherlands are present in the UK, and it can be boiled down to the fact that the natives pay far more in taxes and take far less in cost, whereas many migrants are extraordinarily expensive to British people and never “break even." Forcing the natives to pick up the tab for people who never contributed is immoral and unsustainable. It’s no surprise we’re in enormous debt, with little sight of getting out.
From April 2022 to March 2023, £1.7bn was lost on accommodation for asylum seekers. In the same period, £1.1bn was lost in direct payments. £119m was spent on interpreters. £282 million was lost on medical care and drugs. £124m was spent on legal aid. £284 million was given to NGOs and charities for legal aid, meaning they were paying these organisations to fight against their own deportation and extradition cases that were already costing taxpayers. In the same period, nearly £830k was spent every single day on housing, food, and clothing for asylum seekers through these charities and NGOs. Enormous sums of taxpayer money have gone to people who have never contributed a penny and are unlikely to ever give back as much as they’ve taken.
Benefits payments in 2020–2021 to non-UK citizens totaled £17.9bn. In the same year, there were 3.2 million non-UK citizens receiving benefits. This means nearly 5% of the entire population, 1 in 20, are not citizens but are receiving benefit payments courtesy of the local people paying taxes. An argument around this point has often been that immigrants pay in more than they take, but it’s a red herring. It’s ridiculous to compare the fabulously wealthy and highly skilled immigrants from China, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, for example, to the backwards, dependent, unskilled, and backward cultures of places like Somalia and Eritrea. There are likely no Emiratis in social housing, whereas 72% of Somalis in England and Wales are living in social housing, and the unemployment rate for them is twice as high as the national average. 66.8% of Pakistanis are in social housing, as are 53.8% of Poles. People from New Zealand, Hong Kong, South Africa, Canada, and Australia are the lowest in social housing recipients, each one less than 2.3%.
Benefits Payments & Housing.
Income support: foreigners can receive additional money from the taxpayer on top of their own salaries if they are not eligible for other benefits. The amount depends on the circumstances. It’s a bizarre concept for foreigners to receive British money towards their salaries in order to continue being in the UK. Why is it morally imperative to pay someone to stay in a country they’re clearly struggling to live in? Part of this includes spending taxpayer money on access to training and skill development. This is another bizarre one: with all of the natives having trouble in their own lives, why is it right to spend money upskilling foreign people?
Universal Credit: non-British citizens can receive a range of different additional benefits now known as UC, including disability. Child benefit is paid to foreigners who cannot afford to raise their own children in the UK. Council tax reduction is also available to foreign citizens, meaning they’re able to get away with not contributing the full amount as a guest of the country.
Cash Support: asylum seekers receive cash payments every week, accommodation for free, including some of Britain’s most expensive hotels, free food, and additional vouchers for clothing.
Housing benefit: non-British citizens receive housing benefits to pay for rent. This includes social housing and council houses, where British citizens are pushed down lists to make way for foreign citizens. Foreign citizens are classified as more “urgent” in their need, and taxpayers are pushed out.
Education support: non-British citizens get schooling, tuition fees, and exam fees paid for by the British people. Immigrants into the country can put their children into school for free immediately, at direct cost to the taxpayer.
Legal Aid, NGOs, and Deportation Charities.
There are a range of additional costs for taxpayers that come with extra steps. These usually consist of charities, NGOs, and the Legal Aid payments made to solicitor firms that take on deportation cases.
Legal Aid: non-British citizens that commit crimes get access to Legal Aid to fight cases for them. Also, as the Home Office fights to deport dangerous people, LA is also available to those people, such as foreign rapists, who wish to stay in the UK. In 2021–2022, the Legal Aid payments to solicitor firms for non-UK citizens fighting deportation were £202 million. To counter that, the Home Office spends about £1.2bn a year on deportations, which includes fighting the case in court, flights, accommodation, and some sundries. One must take a second to realise how utterly wasteful it is for British citizens to be paying for both sides of a deportation case.
Refugee Charities: In 2022, Britain spent £2.4bn on funding for charities that work with refugees and asylum seekers. In a vacuum, it’s not immoral to have charities that deal with refugees and asylum seekers and try to help them integrate and find work. However, it isn’t moral for the government to not only provide enormously expensive benefits and support for people but also give taxpayer money to charities to provide even more support. Worryingly, Refugee Council, the leading charity for refugees and asylum seekers, is demanding even more taxpayer money for foreigners, asserting that £2.4 billion on top of all the benefits is simply not enough.
Non-Governmental Organisations: Firstly, they’re relatively governmental. Secondly, in 2021–2022, the ridiculously named Department for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities provided an additional £660 million to organisations such as the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme and the Adult Asylum Seeker Support Programme.
But what benefits are fair?
It’s fair to provide emergency treatment for new accidents. It might also be fair to strike some kind of balance on income support for sudden disability or illness, working between being fair to British taxpayers and not expelling a non-worker for something like this distress/ill health/unexpected/not their fault/they can return to work eventually, even if long term. On that note, it’s definitely not fair to British people to be giving this to someone for something that they enter the country with.
Most importantly, speaking of fairness, it would be for immigration to not be so utterly out of control. The sad truth is that none of these would even warrant that much discussion if the immigration situation were significantly smaller.
The Results.
Enormous sums of money are spent on these systems. These are payments directly from the British people into the pockets of foreigners. It is a cruel system where many Britons suffer from addiction, homelessness, suicidality, joblessness, poor living conditions, no opportunities, and high taxes in an expensive new world, and their money is being filtered out of their hands and into the hands of people who never paid a penny into our system. As no homes are built, as the NHS struggles, and as schools literally collapse, the UK cannot sustain a city the size of Birmingham moving into the country every year, where many of them demand enormous services from the welfare state. Many of the Brexit voters were sick of the idea that Europeans could move to the UK, claim all sorts of benefits, and literally send the money overseas. We have now replaced those EU sponges with other foreign sponges. Instead of understanding the reasons behind Brexit, the elitist mass has ensured that every one of those same problems continues to exist and that the poorer natives are forever shunned and marginalised by uncontrollable immigration.
There are people whose families have been taxpayers in some capacity for thousands of years, since at least as far back as 43 AD. The Romans taxed Britons until the 5th century, defending them from Scandinavian barbarians while also building some of the first “modern” cities with sanitation and aqueducts. In the 10th century, Anglo-Saxon kings taxed Britons, specifically men, and used it to fund military and administrative expenses. In the 12th century, a Danegeld (Dane tax) was introduced by the Normans and used to pay Vikings to not rape and murder people in coastal villages. The Poll Tax of the 14th century led to the Peasants Revolt, and the “Subsidy” of the 16th century imposed by Henry VIII was used to fund wars with France and Scotland. The 17th century onwards saw more complex taxation and a generally wider area of spending. They funded the British Empire, agriculture, administration, justice, new policing forces, emergency services, and more.
All of that money over all of that time, whether you imagine it as good or bad spending, went towards the development socially, culturally, and in government across all of Britain. Many lessons were learned by our society, and many mistakes were made. More so, many great strides were made in Britain’s journey to becoming a small but extraordinarily influential and powerful island. The liberties and values of Britain today are all thanks to this development. It is only with centuries of social cohesion and growth that Britain has been able to get to the level of prosperity it is at now. On this same note, it is not realistic to think that people from many highly incompatible parts of the world can simply walk into Britain and live to the standard of British people. It requires a hard work ethic, deep etiquette, an understanding of our culture and our history, and sharing the broad values that cross the UK. It takes millennia to build a society. It takes a single generation to destroy it.
Britain still has enormous amounts of social trouble to deal with, much of it caused by recent political extremism and the creeping in of destructive socialist welfare initiatives since the 1960s. Fatherlessness, broken homes, drug addiction, lifelong unemployment, and lifelong petty criminality—all of these are enormous social burdens that require the brunt of taxed resources to deal with. They should not be spent attempting to rehabilitate and integrate huge volumes of people entering the country, many of them quickly claiming some kind of benefit.
Is it a moral system?
In the bleakest of pictures, it’s fair to say that the following exists in the UK: foreign people convicted of violent sexual assaults that speak no English and have no job, having their homes, lives, food, clothes, and court defences paid for by the locals. They’re rigorously defended by at least partially public-funded NGOs from deportation, and charities whose patrons are nearly all locals spend money on additional services for these people.
Is it morally right for British people to be paying such high sums of tax for people who enter the UK? High taxes damage our economy by driving out major investment, discouraging small business start-ups, increasing the amount of personal debt people have, reducing employment opportunities, etc. The taxes are high and yet do not cover our yearly bill; we overspend by an additional £100bn+ every year (except in 2023, when it was only £20bn). Is the concept of British taxes being spent on British people such an extreme idea? Does every person in the United Kingdom have to lose chunks of their salaries, percentages of their investments, and entire portions of inheritance from dead family members to pay Jobseekers Allowance to people who have just entered the country? Is it morally right that British people lose so much to tax to spend it on non-British people? Taxes are taken at the threat of violence; if you don’t pay taxes, you receive fines, charges, and sanctions. If you don’t pay those, thugs from the government will drag you to prison. Is it ethical to be forced to hand over tax money for the government to give to new migrants as Jobseeker Allowance?
There is a physical and financial limit to both the amount of money the government can extract from its population through taxation and the depth and breadth of services it can offer the people. Although it is treated like a bottomless pit, it most certainly isn’t. Britain is not built for the enormous quantities of people that are entering every year. Building a country is difficult. It takes expertise, infrastructure, accurate projections, planning, resources, homes, schools, hospitals, police, courts, communities, and decades of all of it. It requires more "country,” so to speak.
You can be pro-taxation and anti-overtaxation. You can be pro-government and anti-totalitarian. One sweet a day isn’t a problem, but a thousand is. The nuance is in the measure. This is the same as opinions on immigration. You can be pro-immigration and anti-mass immigration at the same time. These are not exclusive beliefs to have. The term “anti-immigration” is truly the “anti-vaxxer” of the day, insofar as it unfairly labels completely reasonable beliefs as extremist.