"Daily Mail reader" - says it all. "GUEST" in this case adds the cherry to the cake.

Anyone going to any foreign country is well advised to find out all about how stuff like its benefits system and health service works, just in case. I've seen plenty of articles in British papers with this kind of advice.

The benefits system in the UK is not particularly helpful to people from overseas. If anyone is planning to travel abroad with a view to getting benefits there are other destinations which would make much more sense from that point of view.

The problem isn't that Poles are coming to the UK to draw benefits, but that they are coming here to work, and they have a well earned reputation for being very good workers. And because of the way the way that many regulations on employers have been slashed in the name of "flexibility", and at the same time the unions have been crippled by all kinds of additional regulations and restrictions, employers can find ways of undercutting wages where foreign workers are involved.