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mark occomore
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 Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:58 am Post subject: Get On Your Bike |
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| Quote: | Mr Duncan Smith, the MP for Lord Tebbit’s former parliamentary seat of Chingford, disclosed that ministers were drawing up plans to encourage jobless people living in council houses to move out of unemployment black spots to homes in other areas, perhaps hundreds of miles away.
The former Conservative Party leader said millions of people were “trapped in estates where there is no work” and could not move because they would lose their accommodation. |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/7856349/Coalition-to-tell-unemployed-to-get-on-your-bike.html
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This country can't afford this. They need to re-house people or are they going to put them into work houses? Also they need to find jobs for people. |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:41 am Post subject: |
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That shower don't change do they? Where are unemployed going to get the money to move house from? I can't afford to buy even the humblest of abodes and I am not unemployed! 'Nye Bevan is right, Tories are indeed lower than vermin.
http://www.pictogame.com/en/play/game/aOFevtmVZDcp_the-snake-oil-salesman
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Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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iwarburton
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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I moved round the country quite a bit when I was young, to take advantage of job availability, and am not now where I started. So I do see some merit in this. But the difference was that I had only myself to consider in my days of mobility and there will be many factors that make it more difficult for whole families to up sticks.
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John W
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Similarly when I was 22 I moved to the Midlands to secure a reasonably well-paid job. I rented a room for six years before getting married and buying a house.
When I started work I recall my wages were £250 a month and my room rent was £25 a month, about 10%.
Here in the Midlands a young lad today might earn £1200 a month and his room rent might be £160 a month, so more than 10% now.
But a young family with 2 kids and one salary of £1200 a month would need a house and here a terraced house rent is about £500 a month unfurnished, £750 furnished, and that doesn't leave much for bills and food, though I expect benefits would kick in with those sort of numbers?
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ColinB
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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It's funny how the "new face of Conservatism" hides the old face of Thatcherism.
It's also good to see the good old Torygraph doing the party's PR for it, too. Things really don't change at all, do they? How do we know that Norman Tebbit's not around the back pulling the strings?
Perhaps all unemployed people should all move to Poland. I hear that the cost of living and accomodation is much cheaper there!!! |
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