You a cynic? NEVER....
Thing is, I'm not going to disclose what happened to a family member on a public forum in order to make a point to someone I don't know.
It doesn't matter who has paid what for however many years. For example: I pay a lot of tax and NI. Much more (to date) than I or my family have "taken out"
So I am paying for "other folk" already, that is hard to reconcile at times, but I accept it because I believe in altruism and empathy, and...
When it comes down to it I have to say that if my life was pretty crap, and the outlook for my family was bleak then I would do whatever I could to address that.
Which I guess is why I'm unlikely to ever believe that immigrants, asylum seekers etc should be turned away or demonised.
The...