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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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According to his son he was only unemployed a couple of weeks in sixty odd years. Good one. What''s the longest you've been on the dole for? How would you get people back to work? Job sharing? Cutting immigration? Euthenasia? Or are we just destined to have a large amount of benefit claimants?
Edit, just for frog, breakfast? Weekend plans? Favourite pet?
( , Fri 12 Sep 2014, 7:40, 10 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

( , Fri 12 Sep 2014, 7:54, Reply)

...or you are trolling. There is a very small likelihood that you actually want a reasoned debate.
I will try very hard not to be drawn in.
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( , Fri 12 Sep 2014, 8:05, Reply)

3% of the benefit budget is JSA. 51% is Old age pension. Most of the rest actually goes to working people to bolster the 'low wage economy' that the Tory party actually BRAG about* - as if keeping people poor was a good thing! Who would have thought it eh?
*Viz 'any questions' last week.
( , Fri 12 Sep 2014, 8:09, Reply)

if I hadn't been working on the side, it would have been grim.
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