I don't know about you, but one thing that I've always believed unites the British people is a sense of fairness.
I look at millions of hardworking, taxpaying, law abiding Brits, and I think, however today they're being taken for a ride.
In Britain today, more than one million foreigners are claiming working age benefits. And one thing we've learned this week, remarkably, households in Britain that contain at least one foreign national who are claiming benefits have received more than £7.5billion in Universal Credit in one year.
To put that in perspective, that's enough for 25 million winter fuel payments for British pensioners.
Matt Goodwin questions if Britons are being 'taken for a ride'
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Remarkably, some 40 nationalities in Britain, unbelievable, 40 nationalities, especially people from Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria, Eritrea and Syria are now claiming benefits at a greater rate than the British people, sometimes four times the rate.
How is this fair or just in a modern, civilised society. And you can see this shocking sense of injustice in many other areas of our national life too, like social housing, where it seems to me that once again, the British people are at the back of the queue.
When it comes to crime, foreign nationals, as we've also learned in recent weeks, thanks to freedom of information requests, are significantly more likely to not only be arrested but also convicted of serious crimes, especially rape and sexual assault. Is it fair?
I ask again that the British people are being asked to subsidise people who are not only extracting billions of pounds from our national economy, who have become a net fiscal cost, not a net fiscal benefit, but are also more likely than the British people to commit crimes.
And how is it fair that British pensioners have had their winter fuel payments taken away to save £1.5billion a year, while our hapless politicians in the British state are wasting at least £5.5billion a year on illegal migrants and asylum seekers who are entering our country, breaking our laws in a system that our politicians refuse to fix.
Between welfare payments for foreign nationals and the spiralling bill that is coming through our border crisis, you British taxpayers are currently paying somewhere in the region of £13billion a year, or £250million every week. The numbers are enormous. Mind boggling.
Do you know what, these are not just statistics. What they reflect, let's be clear about this, are political choices that are being taken by people in Westminster who we elect to work on our behalf.
Instead of being treated fairly, many people out there feel they're no longer being prioritised in their own country.
And you know what? I think they're right to feel that way, because treating your own people this way, it's a very opposite, in my view, of what it means to be British.
