"I've never had a job"

[Mich the Tester]

Another issue here is that a waste of life like this produces kids, which gives us another generation of wasters.

We should invade France...that would get our industry going again, get the scroungers off the dole and into the services thereby helping our balance of payments, and get the sense of cummunity going again.

Yes, but France has it's own problems with layabout scroungers, and most of them have jobs and gold plated state pensions at 55.

[Unicorn]

Whose kids...

then have more kids. The daughter has done her duty to the family by ensuring there is another child which requires to be housed. And before her 18th birthday. Top marks all round.

[Bagpuss]

Income Support is what you end up on when your JobSeeker's Allowance runs out after 6 months... assuming that you have less than £8k in the bank...

You can start on income support, if you do not have enough stamps, resigned from your last job or do not qualify in some other way for jobseekers.

[TimberWolf]

There's nothing worth having in Europe, we should invade Iceland and then Australia.

[Mich the Tester]

There's nothing worth having in Europe, we should invade Iceland and then Australia.

Nonsense. Europe’s full of good stuff. Italian food, wine and art. French nymphomaniacs. German beer. Spanish weather. Irish craic (oh no we already invaded them once and it’didn’t turn out well).

[TimberWolf]

Nonsense. Europe’s full of good stuff. Italian food, wine and art. French nymphomaniacs. German beer. Spanish weather. Irish craic (oh no we already invaded them once and it’didn’t turn out well).

What's the point of invading them if the old culture remains? Those places are already full and you can go there on holiday instead if you wish.

[expat]

Yes, but France has it's own problems with layabout scroungers, and most of them have jobs and gold plated state pensions at 55.

The French public sector workers all went on strike when the government proposed the 35-hour working week. Really.

[DodgyAgent]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7746174.stm

I tried hard to sympathise, but I really couldn't.
And to all those like DA who think that unemployment figures are better than on the continent, these people aren't counted as unemployed

Do they have similarly "disguised" unemployed people in other parts of Europe?

[Mich the Tester]

The French public sector workers all went on strike when the government proposed the 35-hour working week. Really.

It always amazes me the French unions can actually find anyone prepared to get out of bed and turn up for a picket.

[Bagpuss]

Another issue here is that a waste of life like this produces kids, which gives us another generation of wasters.

We should invade France...that would get our industry going again, get the scroungers off the dole and into the services thereby helping our balance of payments, and get the sense of cummunity going again.

I would have thought being born into poverty (ok not poverty in the true sense) would be a greater incentive to making something or your life than being born into affluence. How many self made millionaires come from a middle class background?