A difficult concept for most people to understand is that - unless you are an asylum seeker, coming from the atrocities of war, which apparently many people lack any empathy to be able to understand, and in which case ANY country should grant you hospitality and support - those of us who come from EU (and parts of Asia, Africa, America, etc., from those areas not affected by extreme poverty and war), so in most cases not from starvation, come here to achieve excellence, to study, to build businesses, because UK is a country that rightly supports small businesses, a creative country in which education is valued. We want to create opportunities for others as well. We don't come to steal. We don't leave family and friends and a familiar home to be on benefits. That would hardly repay what we miss. If I have to be poor here I may as well be poor with my own family If some of us are on benefits it's because of an emergency situation (like it should be for everyone - it shouldn't be lifestyle - in theory), but aspiring to be out of it as soon as possible. Aspiring to earn and pay taxes. Aspiring to make British friends and give what we can.