If he did move back to the UK because his income dried up he will find it much harder than he may think. The UK is running out of money due to the financial crisis and benefits are not what they used to be. They are not keeping up with very high inflation which means they are not enough to live on.
If you don’t want to work then you live in a really shitty place and can only afford the cheapest lowest quality food like substances.
More and more people are choosing to live in cars than the mouldy horrible cheap housing available for those not willing to work.
I go on the ministry on those kind of jobless people and ten mins is enough for me I already feel sorry for myself, then off to Costa for our usual and an hour chatting.
His options are seriously limited, if he adamantly refuses to work hard for living. At the end of the day he will have to bite the bullet and get a job just like everyone else