Most of us are of a traditional bent when it comes to marriage: A husband and a wife. It's a good arrangement, has been for many thousands of years. I can't imagine why a man would want more than one wife. The one I have is a handful, and there's no way I could (or would want to) handle another.
But in some parts of the world, polygamy is accepted. Now, I wouldn't want to live in one of those places, either. As it turns out, many of the people who live in those places don't want to live in those places, either, so they are leaving for other places, like the United Kingdom. The trouble is, they are bringing from their old places to their new places the kinds of habits and behaviors that made their old places, places they didn't want to live, and thus turning their new places into the old places.
Did you follow that? Never mind; suffice it to say that polygamy is one of those behaviors, and now, in the United Kingdom, they will pay polygamous dole-scroungers an additional dole for each wife. In plain language: The once-Great Britain is subsidizing polygamy, and the British taxpayers are getting stuck with the check.
The (Department for Work & Pensions) DWP has increased the amount it pays out to households with people in polygamous marriages from April.
There’s a set of circumstances in which people who are married to a husband with more than one wife (or a wife with more than one husband) can claim an additional benefits allowance - and it’s all fully legal.
Is polygamy legal, or are the payments legal? Well, polygamy remains illegal in the United Kingdom, but foreign polygamous marriages, as in polygamist marriages performed elsewhere and then brought into the UK, may be recognized under certain circumstances, like when applying for pension benefits.
The DWP, it seems, is adept at straining at gnats while swallowing camels.
The DWP has confirmed in its benefits uprating list that ‘additional spouses’ in ‘polygamous marriages’ are being given a 4.8% boost to their benefits from April, which would most likely be for husbands with multiple wives.
"...most likely be for husbands with multiple wives." As in, not the other way around. You don't say.
Those who are classed as an ‘additional spouse’ in a polygamous marriage and are above state pension age were in 2025-26 able to claim an additional £119.50 per week of Pension Credit or Housing Benefit, with no given limit on the number of separate additional spouses who can claim in one household, other than the overall benefits cap per household per year.
That's a healthy boost, about $162 and change in freedom currency. And Britain may as well hang out a sign, or a shingle, as they say over there, proclaiming, "Polygamists! Come to Britain and get extra cash for every wife!" Mind you, those appear to be old-age pensions, not just the general run of welfare, but just wait; they'll get to that.
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Here's the fun part: There is no leftist European idea that is so loony, so detached from reality, so self-destructive to American culture and the American way of life, that some American leftist won't proclaim it to be "compassionate" and try to implement it here. We haven't seen that yet, but give it time.
Meanwhile, once again, our British cousins, the ones who pay taxes, are getting yet another soaking in the name of coddling their Third World immigrant population. If that doesn't toast your crumpet, I don't know what might.
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