Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

No Trolls on this thread samsun.

Its monitored by management most of the time Ian (management) declared a few months back.

You need to look elsewhere.

You sure GF? wink :O)

Most certainly Chris. Lovely bunch of lads on here. I wonder where TANKER is.

Nasty comments earlier about Aberdeen, get some toffees thrown at cynic.

Call Me Dave in full blown panic mode now!



EU migrants face 100 new questions to make it harder to obtain benefits

The new habitual residence test is being rushed out before transitional controls on Romanians and Bulgarians are lifted


Patrick Wintour


The Guardian, Friday 13 December 2013



Romanians and Bulgarians protest outside Downing Street for equal education and benefit terms as other EU members. Photograph: Johnny Armstead/Demotix/Corbis


Income-related benefits such as housing benefit, income support and council tax benefit are to be harder for EU migrants to obtain from Friday as they face a string of 100 questions, including the reasons they were unable to find a job in their home country. They will also be asked about their ability to speak English.

The new 100 questions in the fresh habitual residence test is being rushed out ahead of the transitional controls on Romanians and Bulgarians being lifted on 1 January.

The European Union insists on the free movement of workers within the EU, but the government believes it is legally entitled to ask tougher questions of migrants before they are entitled to make benefit claims.

EU workers are already asked to prove they have been genuinely seeking work in the UK.

The DWP said that in "order to pass the improved habitual residence test migrants will have to answer more individually tailored questions, provide more detailed answers, and submit more evidence before they will be allowed to make a claim."

For the first time migrants will be quizzed about what efforts they have made to find work before coming to the UK and whether their English language skills will be a barrier to them finding employment.



More: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/13/eu-migrants-new-questions-benefits-romanians-bulgarians

But Cameron is seen to be acting.











Next comes the U-turn!

You have to ask why he left it to two weeks before the balloon goes up?

on the trolls business, I am on the side of Chris

It’s not always a matter of what someone says but how he or she says it.

The kicking a man when he’s down, is far too often seeing on this place

Best time to kick him. Lest chance of kicking back.

Update - Labour lead at 4
by YouGov in Politics
Fri December 13, 2013 6 a.m. GMT

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 12th December - Con 35%, Lab 39%, LD 9%, UKIP 11%;

Especially if it is a Cameroon!

8-)

No better off under Labour - poll

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/national/news/10875149._/

samsun - interesting post (34021).

samsun, cant see where Chris says that?. Your not a mate of the poster ontherturn are you?.

Hays look at this.........

It will take time for UK to regain AAA rating, warns Fitch
Rating agency Fitch said "it was the right call" to downgrade Britain to AA+ earlier this year

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10514710/It-will-take-time-for-UK-to-regain-AAA-rating-warns-Fitch.html

We are still rated higher than almost all of EU.

France has a socialist government and is lower at AA as is Belgium. Italy is BBB, Spain is BBB- and Ireland is BBB+.

Just out. labour 60 to 70 seats majority. Whats 10 seats or so when you have an outright majority.........silch.

electionista ‏@electionista 1h
UK - Populus poll: CON 33%, LAB 38%, LDEM 13%, UKIP 9%

ALMOST isnt good enough.

yes doodlebug4,
and far more true than some people think
Haystack, is on the Irish way of thinking obviously