Europe has given Britain two months to scrap policies preventing benefit tourists claiming billions of pounds in handouts.

Last night the European Commission said it would take the Government to court unless it draws up plans to axe restrictions on claims by immigrants, saying they are against the law and must be scrapped.

Brussels bureaucrats acted after receiving a complaint that the rules infringed the human rights of EU citizens.

'Should be scrapped': The European Commission said it would take the Government to court unless it draws up plans to axe restrictions on claims by immigrants

It is feared the change could open the door to tens of thousands of Eastern Europeans who are currently deterred from coming to Britain – costing taxpayers up to £2.5billion a year in extra welfare payments.

At present a ‘habitual residency’ test is used to establish whether EU migrants are eligible for benefits.

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yet when i go to the UK i get nothing !

Can i move to southern spain and start collecting benfits and get a nice house by the sea?

As far as I can see, the main option, secede from the EC.

Britain has stood alone before, do it again..

Then deport all the immigrants who have NOT shown they are in the UK legally.

Same with those who have not been gainfully employed./ long term unemployed......

Make Britain, "Great" again.

How utterly silly! One of the comments below the article says that France refuses to do anything the EU tells them, and have currently something like 400 cases at law against them. Good for France, I say!

If the EU goes on behaving like that, I shall join the UKIP!

Perhaps the UK should have a 'London Tea Party' and throw the rascals out.

There is precedent for it.

Perhaps the UK should have a 'London Tea Party' and throw the rascals out.

There is precedent for it.

We have it, Chuck, mutatis mutandis, in the UKIP. (which, by the way, wants secession from the EU, like Zpete... perhaps he's a member!).

Unfortunately UKIP has a lot of silly policies, as well as the agenda for quitting the EU.

I would just get hold of all the immigrants and push them back through the Channel Tunnel. We have passport restrictions at points of entry - beef these up, add more security staff (stops them starting riots in London if you put them in uniform) and tell the European Commission (unelected bureaucrats) to do the unmentionable.

I'd like to see the councils of Newham and Haringey investigated by the immigration please. It seems these whole areas are overrun with non tax paying low lifes who can't even speak English never mind integrate themselves into a society.

Wandering through these places now compared to a decade ago I barely recognise them...and that can't be right. Meanwhile gun wielding thugs roam those streets at night. Crazy.

I'd love to see makeshift camps at Dover as all the scum try to flee the new non-EU Britain and head for the French coast....oh to witness the day!

I'd like to see the councils of Newham and Haringey investigated by the immigration please. It seems these whole areas are overrun with non tax paying low lifes who can't even speak English never mind integrate themselves into a society.

Wandering through these places now compared to a decade ago I barely recognise them...and that can't be right. Meanwhile gun wielding thugs roam those streets at night. Crazy.

I'd love to see makeshift camps at Dover as all the scum try to flee the new non-EU Britain and head for the French coast....oh to witness the day!

Telegraph today reprts that Camoron says UK must stay in EU.

Why do the majority of UK citizens not have an opportunity to put in a government that will accede to their wishes?

I'd like to see the councils of Newham and Haringey investigated by the immigration please. It seems these whole areas are overrun with non tax paying low lifes who can't even speak English never mind integrate themselves into a society.

Wandering through these places now compared to a decade ago I barely recognise them...and that can't be right. Meanwhile gun wielding thugs roam those streets at night. Crazy.

I'd love to see makeshift camps at Dover as all the scum try to flee the new non-EU Britain and head for the French coast....oh to witness the day!

Telegraph today reprts that Camoron says UK must stay in EU.

Why do the majority of UK citizens not have an opportunity to put in a government that will accede to their wishes?

The UK Idiot Party?

And then there are those who still wonder why the EU is failing.....

I'd like to see the councils of Newham and Haringey investigated by the immigration please. It seems these whole areas are overrun with non tax paying low lifes who can't even speak English never mind integrate themselves into a society.

Wandering through these places now compared to a decade ago I barely recognise them...and that can't be right. Meanwhile gun wielding thugs roam those streets at night. Crazy.

I'd love to see makeshift camps at Dover as all the scum try to flee the new non-EU Britain and head for the French coast....oh to witness the day!

Telegraph today reprts that Camoron says UK must stay in EU.

Why do the majority of UK citizens not have an opportunity to put in a government that will accede to their wishes?

Turkeys don't vote for Christmas.

And then there are those who still wonder why the EU is failing.....

the EU is falling? that's interesting. tell us more please.

And then there are those who still wonder why the EU is failing.....

the EU is falling? that's interesting. tell us more please.

He wrote "failing" not "falling". I think, my eyes aren't as good as they used to be.

And then there are those who still wonder why the EU is failing.....

the EU is falling? that's interesting. tell us more please.

He wrote "failing" not "falling". I think, my eyes aren't as good as they used to be.

then he should tell us more about the EU failing.

And then there are those who still wonder why the EU is failing.....

the EU is falling? that's interesting. tell us more please.

He wrote "failing" not "falling". I think, my eyes aren't as good as they used to be.

then he should tell us more about the EU failing.

It could be a long wait.

it is interesting to watch how the initial saliva dripping yada €U yada failing yakety we are holier than yak-yak thou is slowly replaced by yada do something yakety-yak as soon as possible because yada yada in case something bad happens we are all yak-yak screwed without the use of any lubricant.