To be Polish

[NickNick]

The chav refusing to pick squash may have a valid point. I am sure he was just a lazy chav and should have his benefits removed, but....
Seasonal work is no good to the unemployed.
They know that when the season is over they will be unemployed again and will then have to wait the statutory period before their full benefits are reinstated. They will have effectively lost money by working.

The wait for income support is only 2 weeks, so I guess after a season picking squash you would be able to save enough to last that two weeks. Housing benefit is admittedly a littel long at around 4 weeks, but if you pay monthly then this isn't an issue.

BTDT.

NN

[ratewhore]

...the tens of thousands who work for the state in the welfare business you will find that these public sector workers are the bedrock of support for NL.

I hate to say it of a pimp but he right you know...

[Bumfluff]

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[lexington_spurs]

I met a Polish guy on the bus last week

none of this addresses the real point raised here.

What is a blue-chip business intelligence contractor doing on a bus?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

If you conducted a poll not just on welfare recipients themselves (you are probably right in that they are unlikely to vote at all) but more importantly on the tens of thousands who work for the state in the welfare business you will find that these public sector workers are the bedrock of support for NL.

Spin some grey into that.

I'm not saying you are wrong but is this based on any real sephology or is it just your opinion (albeit a popular and populist one)?

[Flashman]

I don't suppose the programme actually bothered to quote any statistics on unemployment in the area?

http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/NR/...tter_Mar05.pdf

The claimant count unemployment rate for March 2005 in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough was 1.6%.

Peterborough itself has an unemployment rate of 2.6%.

Even allowing for those unemployed and claiming sickness benefits the unemployment rate is tiny.

The vast majority of British citizens in and around Peterborough are in fact in work. On the basis of actual statistics the characterisation of the English as lazy and workshy would seem to me to be wholly inaccurate.

I would, of course, shoot the unemployed.

[SueEllen]

I'm not saying you are wrong but is this based on any real sephology or is it just your opinion (albeit a popular and populist one)?

Most civil servants and people who work for government organisations are in unions. The party the majority of unions support is Labour. Union magazines (ok the three I've seen) are always full of stuff on how wonderful Labour is. Most people vote according to what they are brainwashed with.