Trimming the UK defence budget isn't going to do much. It's the health and social security/welfare budgets that need to be slashed if much difference is to be made.
Yup, give them benefits for 2 years, after that stop them dead unless they carry out 5 days a week labour employed cleaning streets, litter picking etc etc etc......... failure to carry this out....... stop their benefits period.
Apply a minimum time period of full employement for "overseas" visitors before they can claim benefits, say 2 years full time employement...hence if you turn up.... you get nothing, no housing etc bar meals possibly served at food kitchens, manned by those above..
Anyone arriving from an EU country will be deported back to it..... you are not fleeing persecution coming from France............well, ok, maybe a little.
Those that turn up illegally and destroy their documents etc so they cannot get deported, if they cannot provide them, ship them to an uninhabited Island off Scotland ( 10 miles out should stop potential swimmers) and provide them with the basics to make a go of it...... if they then can suddenly find their documents deport them. Australia does it, why can't we, just a slightly colder version.
Hope you dont think I am too mean.
Also give Scotland and Wales independance totally....... if they vote No, close the assemblies and merge all 3 back together...... why we are running and paying for 3 "parliaments" and all the civil servants that go with it is beyond me, seems to be the only thing Politicians are averse to cutting.
Put car tax on fuel, cut the tax disc, thus shutting down a whole department and wiping out car tax avoidance in a stroke. if you want a disc, replace it with a car insurance one.