No More Loons To Retire To The UK

You have to ask yourself what sort of lunatic living outside the EU would choose to retire in the UK. Apparently there are people who do this. Not many, naturally. About 20 a year according to the UK Border Agency.

Despite this small number, and the fact that the applicants have to have a pension worth £25K a year to live on, the government have decided to close the scheme.

According to the UK Border Agency, less than 20 applications were received each year under this category. The Agency also stated that the limited take-up of the program and the fact that these applicants could place future demands on public services had caused them to give the scheme the axe.

The people who put this together are such fuckwits they can't see the contradiction in that last sentence. Twenty people a year - that would really break the country's finances, wouldn't it?

Mind you, they're probably just doing what the EU has told them to do.