roma countdown for a mass exodus to uk
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Roma countdown for a mass exodus to UK
ROMA gypsy families are counting the days before they can pack up and leave for a new life in Britain.
In less than a fortnight EU restrictions will be re laxed and impoverished Romanians are expected to flood into the UK, attrac ted by our universal
reputation as a country that looks after migrants.
Yesterday the faces of families surviving on less than £1 a day lit up when they spoke of the UK’s generous welfare system.
Almost all of them said they were leaving in the New Year.
In run-down Barbulesti, 50 miles north-east of the Romanian capital Bucharest, all roads lead to Britain with the majority of its 7,000 penniless
inhabitants planning a mass exodus after January 1.
The largely unemployed population survive on welfare payments of £20 a month, but know they could receive 20 times that while searching for work in
the UK.
Impoverished and malnourished families told how they were desperate to leave appalling poverty.
Jobless Toni Samdu, 40, lives with eight members of his family in a cold and cramped hovel with shattered windows, no electric ity and an outside toilet
held together by wood and ripped tarpaulin.
In a freezing room measuring barely 10ftx10ft he s leeps with his wife Mia, 38, and four young children Denisa, six, Jacob, eight, Laurentiu, 10, and
Marcus, 14, plus grand parents Elena Moise, 64, and Vasile Dumitru, 63.
He said: “We can’t stay here because things are so desperate.
“We will leave for Britain in the New Year because we can have a better income.
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She said: “I want to go to Britain to leave this standard of living. You have a good life and better child benefit. We will leave after Christmas.”
Eastern Europeans arriving in the UK will be entitled to access benefits and free NHS care.
They will be forced to take a habitual residence test to prove they are fit to work. But once they have passed a simple questionnaire they can claim
welfare like jobseeker’s allowance and housing benefit.
Those planning to leave have turned their noses up at Germany, France and Italy because of Britain’s reputation as a generous and prosperous
society.
But the mass arrival of migrants has panicked politicians and police chiefs who are concerned many will turn to begging and a life of crime.