UK debates - Amen, I'm a foreigner?
- Are you a foreigner?
- You said we spend billions of pounds on foreigners, on universal credit.
- That's right.
- I have lived here for thirteen and a half years. I'm not a British citizen because applying for citizenship costs two thousand pounds, and I don't have two thousand pounds. And tell me, if I get sick tomorrow and can't work, should I be allowed to claim benefits?
- No.
- Do you think I should not be allowed to claim benefits? At what point do you believe that a person like me, has worked long enough, paid into the tax system long enough that he deserves not to be homeless, deserves not to be homeless, to not be able to pay for my rent or my food.
- There is a very simple answer to your question. As soon as you want to become a citizen, pay two thousand.