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 […]

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