Benefit Tourism is a myth

Under current rules EU migrants looking for work can stay a maximum of 3 months in another EU country. David Cameron's great plan, which includes INCREASING that time period to 6 months, indicates how misinformed so many Tories and our media are. At least UKIP are honest, they want to stop all migration and could not care less about the fate of the 2.5 Million Brits who have used their freedom of movement to live and retire elsewhere in the EU.

Benefit tourism is also a myth, as migrant cannot claim ANY benefits unless they have worked here, and paid the same taxes to qualify as everyone else. All analysis show that immigration adds to British prosperity. The only credible argument is that the country is overcrowded, but migration is a 2-way process - for many years more people left than arrived, now it is swung  a bit the other way - thankfully for 2 reasons 1) it has made the country more prosperous 2) it has altered the demographics of the UK which without immigration would be an ageing population.

Time for honesty please. By all means leave the EU, and stop all migrants - but accept that that means we will be a poorer country, with an ageing society less able to take care of itself.

Migration Myths

It is interesting to see how misrepresented the immigration issue is. Under EU rules a migrant can only stay in another another EU country for 3 months without fulfilling various criteria - of which there are 4
1) You are in work - i.e. paying in to the system not taking out of it. The majority of British people have repeatedly said that they have no objection to migrants who work and contribute. It is also the reason why migration boosts UK GDP
2) You can support yourself privately - and not 'be a burden' on the host countries benefits system. This is why Angela Merkel won her EU Court of Justice court case to prevent paying German benefits to a Romanian migrant - and why 'benefit tourism' does not exists - and is a fiction created by UKIP and some parts of the media.
3) You are student. Students contribute millions to the UK economy
4) You are a relative of one of the other and they support you
The true problem is not migration - it benefits the UK and migrants contribute to our nations prosperity. It is the failure of Cameron to properly enforce these rules.
Of course there are those who object to EU citizens working here - but the number of such people here almost matches the number of Brits who are in other EU states - that is a load of nonsense too.
Support for EU membership continues to rise - thanks to UKIP and people seeing through their ludicrous claims, and also because no credible business organisation or major political party wants to leave the EU.