#EUreferendum migrants. So who has contributed - are we really all the same?

A cornerstone of the EU of course is the free market and the free movement of labour. The practical effect of this is we are all "EU citizens" - legally you cannot differentiate between the rights of a Welsh or Scottish or English or N Irish family who have lived in the UK all their lives (your own citizens) and some one who has moved here from any one of the other 27 EU countries and has lived and worked in the UK for a month (or a week).

Literally in every debate on the referendum someone will trot out migrants contribute - they come here to work, pay their taxes and help grow the economy - they make us all wealthier.

So who has contributed - are we really all the same?

FAMILY ONE (Smith)

• Great granddad fought in the first world war, worked as a miner for 30 years and walked in the Jarrow March . Great grandma was a suffragette.
• Grandad never missed a days work in his life as a ship builder and granny was a nurse. They both went through the second world war and granddad did national service.
• Their children have carried the work ethic forward. One has worked in a car factory all his life the other got to university and through hard work became a teacher. They have all been involved in their community - PTA, local football team and carnival committees. None have ever been in trouble with the law. 
• Their children are trying to make their way in the world. Two have served building apprenticeships and one is a nurse (working in A&E and knows first hand how over run it is) but all are still living at home as they cannot afford a place of their own.
• The family are aware it is increasingly harder to get GP appointments and their local schools are full. They have been on the social housing waiting list for several years now.

FAMILY TWO (Kovac)

• This Romanian family of mother and father and 5 children moved to the UK 3 months ago.
• They cannot speak English.
• Father has a crime record including street violence - both parents have drink related issues.
• Father gets a job at a car wash on minimum wage.
• Mother works 16 hours as a cleaner.
• Therefore they are working and contributing  minimum NI payments and possibly a small amount of tax.
• Consequently they are entitled to the full range of in work benefits including child benefit, tax credits and housing benefit. (they fully understand this and cash in immediately).
• They all sign up at the local GP.
• The kids all sign up for places at the local school.
• They get free dentistry, eye checks and access to the NHS immediately.
• As our system is needs based rather than contribution based and as the EU rules do not allow the UK to favour its own citizens the Kovaks immediately jump ahead of the Smith children when it comes to the allocation of social housing.
• The family are disruptive in the neighbourhood (police have been to domestics) - but they are delighted to be here and pass the good news on to their extended family back in Romania - so they are planning to come to the UK too.

But according to the STAY campaign this is all OK - family two are "contributing" and making us "wealthier". I appreciate I have drawn extreme comparisons - but are they really that extreme?

We have totally uncontrolled migration to this country. There is a massive question mark over the "migrants contribute" argument. Even if they do taking all the in work benefits to which they are immediately entitled - their contribution in time terms is nothing compared to the generational contribution of family one - the Smith's - but under the law this is illegal to take into account in any way.

This is a sick situation - totally inequitable - demotivating and unsustainable.

If you want the UK to be a defined country (rather than one with no functioning borders with the other 27 EU countries) that looks after its own citizens first - then you have to vote OUT. Surely we are not going to let this highly damaging nonsense continue any longer (as part of a discredited and broken political concept now known as the EU).