Shocking as usual

[vetran]

Islamist terrorism plans ‘funded by British benefit system’ | News | The Times & The Sunday Times

Hundreds of thousands of pounds in British benefits have been used to fund Islamist terrorism, it was claimed yesterday after a Birmingham man was convicted of passing cash to a suspect in the Paris and Brussels attacks.

The government faces calls for an inquiry into the scale of benefit fraud linked to jihadist causes as counterterrorism officers confirmed that taxpayers’ money has paid for weapons and travel to the so-called Islamic State.

Lord Carlile of Berriew, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, told The Times that “several hundred thousand pounds in small remittances have been used to fund terrorism in one way or another” in recent years. He said: “[Such activity] has increased during the rise of Isis. Certainly the government should ensure that…

[LondonManc]

Hardly a surprise. If only DA was here....

[woohoo]

Hardly a surprise. If only DA was here....

Perhaps Forumbore can pass on what DA thinks?

[ChimpMaster]

Well at least you know where your hard earned taxes are going.

[vetran]

does make a benefit card look like a sensible idea.

[BrilloPad]

Perhaps Forumbore can pass on what DA thinks?

"The problem is that NLUK's accountant is a leftie. This would never have happened under Thatcher".

[LondonManc]

Any comment from the odious comedy duo Abbott and Corbyn yet?

[LondonManc]

does make a benefit card look like a sensible idea.

Correct, but there would still be a grey/black market trade in them.

[shaunbhoy]

Any comment from the odious comedy duo Abbott and Corbyn yet?

Well it is only fair, after all, we did colonise some of these places!!

[LondonManc]

Well it is only fair, after all, we did colonise some of these places!!

Surprised they had money to give. Those 14-year-old schoolgirls aren't going to groom themselves.