so that makes it ok to take on the rest of the worlds scroungers?
No, it just makes the point that our problems are not solely the responsibility of immigrants, as the original poster would suggest.
We basically need to sort our house out. Vet the fucking lot of them. There are loads of folk who are genuine, this would be proved and they could carry on claiming. The non-genuine ones could be put to work. Community service, washing walls, picking gum off bus stops.. anything.
Pay them minimum wage, they then pay taxes and spend money - thus the economy continues.
From a governmental point of view you have to speculate to accumulate.