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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Immigrants can no longer claim Jobseekers Allowance as soon as they come here, but they are still able to claim in work benefits like Housing Benefit, Council Tax Reduction, Working Tax Credits, Child Tax Credits, Child Benefit etc.
In work actually means working over 16 hours a week. This is often abused by people saying that they are self employed for two days a week eg Big Issue sellers, scrap metal collecting etc.
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That strikes me as a deficiency in our welfare system that we could've fixed had we been bothered to.
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
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Markets go up and down all the time. BREXIT doom has just evaporated. 
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We've at least 4 years of pain ahead. That's just the initial shock over and some benefits to our top companies, as they make most of their money abroad, from Sterling bombing.
The domestic economy will continue to weaken and will go into recession if it's not there already shortly.
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Originally Posted by ntluser
Just seen Liam Fox on the TV and if Boris does not get the PM job Liam looks like a good substitute as he sounds like he is prepared to kickass with the EU if they start messing us around and is prepared to broker trade deals with the rest of the world.
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Boris is an affable, intelligent man with no finesse or focus.
Liam Fox may bluster but he knows as well as anyone that the EU hold the good cards in the discussion and it'll be damage limitation as far as those negotiations go.
It's campaign season again. Argh.