Unfortunately Corbyn's particular brand of socialism is not the answer.
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Unfortunately Corbyn's particular brand of socialism is not the answer.
Spot on.
And even where he's not popular with some, he's still less detested than Corbyn.
And its not because of the media.
davek
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Middle England is also made up of dyed in the wool Lib Dems and Brexit Party sympathisers too.
The Tories will lose on a no deal ticket. I pray that 'kin clown calls a GE before securing some form of deal...which WILL happen whoever is in charge.
It's politics Dave. Johnson and the Tories know full well that the EU won't remove the backstop (rightly), so they can now pin no deal on them as though it was their fault for being intransigent. Similarly, Corbyn knows full well that he won't muster the support for his proposal to stop it (and doesn't really want to anyway), and he can now blame his failure on the LibDems. All a bit Kopite like isn't it?
If you're from NZ, you can come into Australia and back yourself to get and more importantly, keep a job and support yourself. But since 2002 you can't come in and claim benefit.
Everybody else has to jump through the complex immigration procedure, that done, get and keep job, away you go, valuable member of society etc...but basically you still can't claim benefit.
This doesn't seem too harsh.
Would some UK variation of this be the end of the world
EU migrants are already prevented from claiming benefits for some time after they move to a country.
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Kinell...
Don't know about kopite, more like Total Dogs Breakfast. First past the post politics at its worst.
It is kinda indicative of where our society is at, that the lie that migrants can (and have the desire to) simply rock off a plane and claim benefits, is so widely accepted as fact. People have chosen to believe this despite easy access to information detailing the contrary. I deal with it every day
'a country' in general or UK in particular? Its all about the perceived Brexit perspective. Which thinks that over a period of time (10yrs or more) many people (millions, nobody knows the true number) came in that, pre-freedom of movement, would have had to jump through many hoops to prove some sort of ability to support themselves.
Its a briefing paper, 1 step above a wish list. It shows belated intent. It shows that for a number of years before there was not only a perceived problem, but an actual problem, the scale of which was somewhat unknowable...but the rumblings filtered through tosomebody who produced that briefing paper.
Was that intent ever converted into legislation?
The Brexit perception thinks it wasn't...they may be right. Who knowx.
davek
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In that scenario (a crashing out) the Tories wont get a bounce. The scare stories aren't, in fact, scare stories. Every rational person knows that the moment a no deal has been decided then the economic and social dislocation will be swift and enormous. What person in their right mind then goes to the country and asks them to pin the blame on the EU and vote for them?
There'll be a deal. The Brexiteers are in a massive buff mode and the Tory leadership will pivot away from it when they realise the EU aren't for budging....hence the Tory leadership using all manner of perfidious lines of pressure on Dublin right now to get them to call on the EU to present another Withdrawal Agreement.
We have a cabal of chancers running the government. It was a coup against May's leadership and it's one last chance for the Brexiteers to get a deal + the backstop removed. It wont work and they will be crushed at the polls.
- From December 2013, a “stronger, more robust” Habitual Residence Test for those claiming means-tested benefits.
- From 1 January 2014, people coming to the UK must have been living in the UK for three months before they can claim income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance.
- EEA jobseekers or former workers would have to show that they had a “genuine prospect of finding work” to continue to get JSA after six months (and if applicable, Housing Benefit, Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit). For those with a right to reside as a jobseeker the test is now applied after three months on JSA.
- From 1 March 2014, a new minimum earnings threshold to help determine whether an EEA national is or was in “genuine and effective” work, and so has a “right to reside” as a worker or self-employed person (and with it, entitlement to benefits).
- From 1 April 2014 new EEA jobseekers have been prevented from accessing Housing Benefits even if they are in receipt of JSA.
- From 1 July 2014, new jobseekers arriving in the UK would need to have lived here for three months in order to claim Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit.
- From 10 June 2015, EEA jobseekers have been prevented from claiming Universal Credit.
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