Friday - June 17, 2011

pot addict claims £16,000 in benefits.  life in the uk today

I’m not certain if this post continues Drew’s thoughts on economies and ins/health etc.  Isn’t meant to but when I saw this I knew I had to share the lunacy with all here.

This is NOT a sane world.  Take a look at this.

Judge’s fury as cannabis addict claims £16,000 in benefit

because smoking the drug has made him too depressed to work

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

A father of two who legally pocketed up to £16,000 in state benefits because he smokes cannabis was condemned by a judge today.

Paul Holland, 21, who has been smoking the drug since he was ten said it made him depressed and he had been prescribed anti-depressants as a result.

But his condition meant he was able to claim £60 a week incapacity benefit on the grounds his illness has made him unable to work since he left school at 16.

He also has a six-month-old baby with a long-term medical problem.

At Burnley Crown Court, a senior judge condemned the payments at taxpayers’ expense after Holland appeared before him over a cannabis farm he grew at his home in Church, near Accrington in Lancashire.

Judge Heather Lloyd told him: ‘No doubt a significant part of your problems are caused by excessive use of cannabis.

‘I’m not a doctor, but there is plenty of medical evidence to show it is not uncommon for depression and anxiety, which could lead to paranoia, to be found with cannabis use.

‘You could do something about your problems whilst others who may have been born with health difficulties couldn’t.

‘I find it astonishing that somebody who may be self inflicting these problems upon themselves is able to get incapacity benefits at this level.’

She gave Holland 26 weeks in prison, suspended for two years, with 12 months supervision and 80 hours unpaid work. He must pay £100 costs.

Back at home Holland who lives with his mother said: ‘I’m not prepared to talk about this.’

But the court heard how he suffered depression and drinking since he was 13 and had been on state handouts since he left school.

He had been arrested after police acting on a tip off raided his home and found a 250 plant cannabis factory.

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That’s pretty bad I suppose but actually it get even worse. And as far as I am personally concerned and I think there are a few Brits who agree,
it comes down finally to a nation’s sovereignty.
What I see happening on this side of the water makes me worry for my own country, cos I am convinced that there are people in the USA who think the idea of the left leaning European Union is a great idea, and that perhaps we need to be more like them.  I think they are called Socialists, Reds, bedwetters and loons. The problem is, they have lots of influence in high places and in some cases are most likely in a high place themselves.  So I’m concerned.

I won’t post the entire article here and this subject has been covered before , but perhaps not so much all at once.  It’s still an interesting and infuriating read.
Says something about that sovereignty thing too. Which btw reminds me.  Bad as this is, there’s something else of a non crime or immigration nature that’s just as bad. Seems there’s a bit of a dust up over just who speaks for England. What is happening is, the European Union under the Brit comrade commissar who serves in the EU and is supremo ...  will usurp British foreign policy.

Oh, and do you know that the EU has reps inside our favorite org.?  Yeah them. The UN. This all gets very involved. Will do a post on it. Makes for fascinating reading.  Meanwhile .................

Human right to sponge off UK: 3,200 criminals, failed asylum seekers and benefit tourists can’t be kicked out because of right to family life

By JAMES SLACK

Human rights law is demolishing every aspect of Britain’s immigration controls, Government papers reveal.

Every year, more than 3,200 foreign criminals, failed asylum seekers and EU ‘benefit tourists’ are using Labour’s Human Rights Act to thwart Home Office attempts to remove migrants – or stop them arriving in the first place.

The majority of cases are using the controversial Article 8, ‘the right to a private or family life’.

Ministers are so alarmed that they are planning a potentially explosive review of the ‘family life’ defence, which critics say is widely abused.

There has been a series of shocking cases of foreign killers and other criminals cheating deportation.

But the first Home Office audit of the full impact of the Human Rights Act has revealed it is sabotaging almost every part of the immigration system.

Nepalese killer Rocky Gurung was allowed to remain although he was a single adult with no children, who lived with his parents

In the last three months of 2010, 99 foreign prisoners successfully claimed deporting them would breach their right to a family life in Britain – the equivalent of almost 400 each year. It is four times the previous estimate of 100 – which itself provoked outrage.

In addition, Article 8 thwarted the equivalent of 132 asylum removals last year. The separate Article 3 – the right to protection from ill-treatment – prevented the removal of the equivalent of 56 foreign criminals, and 16 asylum seekers.

The most shocking development, however, is the way the right to a family life is impacting on the rest of the immigration system.

Originally, the right to family life was applied in strict circumstances – such as a migrant having married here, and had children. In recent cases, this has been widened.

A Nepalese killer, Rocky Gurung, was allowed to remain although he was a single adult with no children, who lived with his parents.

A Sri Lankan robber was allowed to stay as he has a girlfriend in Britain. One Bolivian was allowed to remain to care for his pet cat.

In a letter to the Tory MP Dominic Raab, the Home Office disclosed that the equivalent of almost 600 economic migrants who had been denied a visa under the point-based system were using Article 8 to make successful appeals.

Amazingly, immigration judges were even interfering in decisions involving 1,200 EU nationals. Under EU law, citizens of other member states are free to settle in Britain provided they are either self-sufficient, meaning they have enough money to support themselves, or hold a job.

The rules are designed to prevent ‘benefit tourism’. But, in the last three months of 2010, 292 EU citizens successfully argued they have a human right to stay here without satisfying these conditions.

It gives them free access to the full benefits system, including housing.

A Supreme Court judge yesterday appealed to European human rights judges to stop trying to force new laws on Britain.

Baroness Hale of Richmond said Strasbourg’s campaign to give the prisoners the vote is ‘some way ahead’ of law and opinion here.

Britain has never allowed convicted prisoners to vote and Parliament has endorsed the ban. Strasbourg has given the Government until October before it takes further action.

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So then, the court in Strasbourg is giving the Brits a deadline are they.  Interesting. And what if the Brits say up your?  Will Blighty be invaded?
Will this become another Danzig?
Woo-hoo ... stay tuned

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