EU Court hands our benefits to terrorists

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...-to-terrorists

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FAMILIES of suspected terrorists can claim thousands of pounds in benefits from British taxpayers, a European court ruled yesterday. In a judgment that sparked a ­furious response, the European Court of Justice said handouts to suspects’ wives were unlikely to fund terror activities. As a result, they can continue to claim income support, disability allowance, and child, housing and council tax benefits. And those payments should not be monitored by the Treasury.

The ruling means that while he was awaiting trial, the wife of hate cleric Abu Hamza, who is in custody fighting extradition to the US after serving seven years in jail for incitement to murder, was legitimately entitled to state handouts. Taxpayers have already spent millions keeping Hamza and his family housed, clothed and fed. His wife Najat Chaffe, 49, has claimed benefits for herself and their six children for at least 10 years.

Tory MP Philip Davies said: “Once again the human rights of suspected terrorists and their family members are put before those of law-abiding, hard-working people. At the end of the day it is the people in this country who work hard who are having to dig in their pockets and I think they are rightly sick to the back teeth of it.” Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “Once again British taxpayers are having to fork out because of a decision made by meddling and unaccountable European courts. “The authority of our justice system has been completely undermined by this ruling. The British Government are the people we elect to decide how to spend our money, not some European court.”

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The European Court of Justice is the highest court within the European Union before anybody on here attempts to make it out as though they are seperate entitys when they are infact not; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Justice - on topic itself, yet another reason ontop of a long list of reasons why we need to leave this policitically correct mess and Dave, Gordon or Nick will not do it. I want British courts to be in control of British law.

Thoughts, should the EU have control over who we give our benefits to and should people involved in terrorism/extremism be allowed state handouts?

Depends, innocent unless proven guilty of course. If the families are going to spend money on bombs or were at all involved then they should be prosecuted too, if they are not going to be punished though they should get the benefits they're entitled too seeing as in the eyes of the law they are innocent.

The wider question we must ask is 'why was this woman allowed into the country if she had no desire to work?' (if she was allowed in and not born here). The other important question we need to ask ourselves is 'what kind of a country are we when we are being dictated what to do by foreign courts?'. The people I feel sorry for most in this country are the taxpayers who work all their lives and pay into the system yet when they need life-extending drugs off the NHS they are told that this country has no money to fund it and they are either left to pay for it themselves by selling their houses or just left to die.

we have common law in this country so they are innocent until proven guilty like jordy said and to your comment undertaker i dont believe you needed at one point to have to work to get into the UK as long as you were financially OK. So when the guy got sent to prison - obviously all income has gone, the woman's got several BRITISH nationals as children (from what i can tell) and therefore are entitled to benefits i guess, rightly or wrongly. i can't tell whether his wife is british or not. Hamza has had british citizenship since the 80s.

You really are sounding like Farage this evening (bar the thread on communism ;)). I agree with you but I still think that this report by the Express was a pretty lame and desperate attack on the European Union.

If we have a common law in this country then why is the European Union dictating what this common law should be upheld/not upheld - surely that is the job of sovereign British courts and not of the political courts of the European Union. This article exposes three issues; European Union influence over British courts, immigration and finally the British benefits system which we all know is crooked as the other two issues I have mentioned.

All need sorting out yet none of our politicians want to address these problems, now why is this?