20 February 2004 “The Coming Hordes.” This was one of the headlines in the British Economist of 15 January 2004. It is this article that started a whole series of alarming stories in the British press claiming that many thousands of “benefit tourists” would stream in to the U.K., especially those from the Eastern European Roma community. The estimated number […]
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