Caught last bit of an argument on R4 this morning (30 April).
Andrew Green (Migratation Watch) vs. some plank.
Argument was to do with some new research out today:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10796558/Quarter-of-eastern-European-workers-pay-just-1-a-week-in-tax-says-report.html
Unfortunately, he (Green) is right. Tax credits are a f-cking disaster. They are a double disaster for the UK with EU expansion.
The plank arguing against him was banging on about low paid people paying lots of indirect tax. For example, he said, cigarettes are heavily taxed. Now, I don't know about you but none of the poorish people I know who smoke - UK as well as E.European - actually smoke UK taxed fags. To man + woman they smoke black market fags and roll-ups/loose tobacco.
Then the argument switched to tax credits are not the biggest benefit (they are not), health and education spending are. Forgetting that the immigrants use both - probably more than a native born person.