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JSA, ESA. Surely if they dont qaulify for either benifit they cant expect em to starve people there is a law against that. Anyhow this lot you see on the streets get their dole spend it on Boose then when they are skint they find a Pitch and then stick their Mits out. Commonly known as going on the **** then taking the ****.In theory you should be able to claim either ESA or JSA, but the system is designed in such a way that it is quite possible to receive neither, and no it's not illegal, although it should be. Those people caught in that trap need food banks. As do the people on zero hours contracts who got just that this week - zero hours. And the people waiting for their first Universal Credit payment. And the people who just had to spend all their money on keeping their car on the road for work. And so on.
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Good on you for getting the pictures and informing the police.Likewise
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On my way home today (6.30 p.m.) I kept pace with a taxi all the way from the centre of town to Burngreave. It wasn't the cyclists holding him back, it was the other vehicles and red lights (which I also stopped at, I should point out).
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How easily the Remainers are played by the neo-liberal EU, which many of them imagine to be a safety net for the poor!In reality It was the EU that forced Greece to cut its minimum wage for its lowest paid workers and cut pensions and benefits for those on the lowest incomes. The EU was aggressively pushing Italy's former compliant government to cut workers rights and wages, which is a big reason why that government is no longer in power.
Anybody who cares to read various EU Commission papers can discover that reducing workers wages and employment rights while at the same time lengthening working hours, and the privatisation of state assets for private profit is very much favoured by the EU.
Is this what Remainers voted to support in June 2016?
I don't disagree. I think it's clear that the EU was designed to primarily meet the interests of the capitalist class. If the referendum had been called under a Corbyn government I probably would have voted leave, because I'd be fairly confident of getting an alternative that worked better for workers. But to vote for Gove and Johnson's Brexit seems insane to me, it means more neo-liberalism, not less. My overall view on it is that in or out, workers will lose. But I think we lose more if we go out in the current reality and to me that looks painfully obvious.
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Oh, I knowThe Brexit leaders’ motives are very transparent: maximum personal profit for them and their backers, and rule-taking from Washington Manhattan.
Which is exactly how and why Mogg plays the working class Brexiteers with his nationalist snake oil, whilst moving his financial business and his 1%er clients’s funds to the EU27. As blatant a case of “do as I say, not as I do” as I’ve ever seen.
Brexit leaders don’t really want political power, so much as the transformation of the U.K. into an ultra-liberal neo-capitalist template. Caviar for them, soylent green for the populace.
The “exactly how” matters little. The clock plays for them, and they’re quite happy playing it until March’19.
Exactly. And then you have people like Car Boot who think that a vote for Brexit is a vote against neo-liberalism. How easily they are played by the ultra-capitalists.
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When you think about it, it's impressive that France managed to get 4 goals past a team that included one of the world's best defenders.
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Second place, great achievement!It certainly is, Croatia played very well but France took control in the second half, Pogba and Griezmann in particular.
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There are hardship funds or something like that if benefit is suspended or what ever. Surely the DWP would not resort to make anyone take up begging or using food banks.I understand that you would think that - it's hard to accept that the government would deliberately make life hard for very ill people isn't it? Sadly, your optimism is misplaced though. There are hardship payments available for JSA but only if you are sanctioned, not if your claim is cancelled by the DWP. There are no hardship payments available to ESA claimants. There are some Jobcentre staff who can see that someone should be on ESA, despite them being refused it, and that the person in question can't comply with the conditions for receiving JSA, but there is literally no mechanism by which Jobcentre staff can move someone on to ESA if they have already been refused it.
And then there are the refusals of ESA that can only be made by someone who is intent on limiting the number of awards - anyone else meeting that person for 10 minutes can easily see that they have limited capability for work.
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There is no need for anyone to beg this day and age and no need for food banks. Get down the Social if your skint or better still get a JOB.I have to pick you up on this. There is sadly a lot of need for food banks. I recently helped someone whose brain injury meant they couldn't cooperate with what was expected of them to be able to get ESA, and the same with someone whose mental health likewise meant they lost their ESA because they were too paranoid to go to the assessment. Both tried claiming JSA but that fell through very quickly in both cases they were far too ill to comply with the expectations put on them so their claims were cancelled by the Jobcentre. Very ill, no money.
We have helped them and one of them is now on the right benefit and the other is getting there, but not without a lot of time and expertise being employed - and food banks being made use of.
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England suffer their third loss.Bereft of vision and passing technique in the final third.
Dier showed a bit of those qualities though.
Kane has those qualities but looks so unfit stamina wise.
Lindgard is another headless chicken like Sterling. Rashford promised much but again the final ball from him was lacking,like nearly all the other England players.
This England team is no better than the rest.
If only all the World Cup managers had let you choose the teams eh?
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Rashford and Lingard are playing very well, as is Loftus-Cheek, but that counter attack from Belgium on 78 minutes was lovely.
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It's the people who voted to remain and still don't want the UK to leave the EU, who are questioning people's opinions who voted to leave the EU. The actual people, who voted to leave the EU are not questioning why they voted to leave or future relationships with the EU. The actual people, who voted to leave the EU are only complaining because they don't think the UK are really going to leave the EU.---------- Post added 13-07-2018 at 12:31 ----------
Because the majority of parliament don't want the UK to leave the EU and seek for the UK to leave the EU in name only.
The EU fundamentally consists of the European Commission, the European Parliament, European Central Bank, European Court of Justice, the Council of the European Union and the European Court of Auditors. Provided the UK leaves those institutions then the referendum result has been respected. The future relationship with the single market is separate to the basic question asked in the referendum.
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The EU was exempt from US steel tariffs. The US decided to remove the steel tariff exemption. How could Trump have exempted the UK from steel tariffs, when the UK are still in the EU? He imposed tariffs on Chinese steel because China are exporting too much cheap steel to the USA.---------- Post added 13-07-2018 at 11:03 ----------
The choice was simple. It's the politicians, who still don't accept the EU referendum result , who are complicating matters. The best and fairest solution now, would be for the UK to walk away with a no trade deal with the EU.
The choice was simple, yes. Different possible future relationships with the EU are complex, and therefore the referendum tells us nothing about peoples' opinions of those.
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It was understood, if the UK voted to leave the EU, then the UK would be leaving the single market. Any discussions the UK have had with the USA since the referendum vote about a future trade agreement, will have been with the perception the UK are leaving both the single market and customs union. If the UK are moving the goalposts, then whatever has been provisionally agreed with the USA about future trade agreements are no longer valid. UK steel workers are going to London today to demonstrate about tariffs on UK steel, but the tariffs are on UK steel as a consequence of the UK still being in the EU.President Trump is only making the UK aware of the consequences of the UK not completely leaving the EU.
You can't keep repeating that the choice was simply whether to leave the EU or not, and then start claiming that it was also a referendum on whether to have an EFTA style arrangement, because the EFTA nations are not in the EU
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But as stated in the 1977 & 1988 Acts, tenants are protected by law. But I am talking about 6 or 12 month shorthold tenancies whose landlord has decided to sell up. That is not a common situation.But the Assured Shorthold Tenancies you describe were introduced by the 1988 Act, so if the 1988 Act gives the tenant protection then the protection applies to Assured Shorthold Tenants.
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If your on your own in the car. your 5 foot from the kerbcan you give me any reason at all why a cyclist on hi own should not also be 5 foot from the kerb?
do you have a greater right to that 5 foot spot your arse is sitting than the guy sitting on the bike in the same spot?
Well he drives everywhere, his arse is probably about 3 ft wide
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I hope Croatia win, because I've got them in the sweepstake at work and am on to win £30, also it would be nice for a new team to win it.But...I think the French are a stronger, more robust and talented team. They can do anti-football like they did against Belgium and they can turn it on when they want like against Argentina.
I think Croatia have maybe 2 and a half world class players, France maybe 5.
That was some bus France parked after going a goal up against Belgium (Mourinho & Son's finest model, an executive double decker). I hope for the sake of those watching that France don't score first, but Croatia have been good at coming from behind, so maybe they'd prefer that.
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I think most people around the World assumed when the UK democratically voted to leave the EU, it meant the majority of UK voters wanted the UK to leave the EU.Of which there are various permutations because there are a number of institutions and agreements that go to make up "the EU".
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There's a lot of hubris in the Croatian media about how they are going to take France. They'd better hope they're right, pride comes before a fall.
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Lets hammer Belgium, show the nation what were capable off, I shall definitely be watching...
A tad over-optimistic I think!
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i dont know wether they create more traffic but they definitely cause more congestion and frustration!! after doing an airport run this weekend and coming back over the snake pass the amount of selfish cyclists 2 abreast and even a single cyclist holding up miles of traffic, although i must admit a couple of the rubbish drivers seem to think they cant pass a cyclist without going over to the other side of the road!!Showing off your driving 'skills' eh?
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......far too many questionable pass backs to our goalkeeper!Which is fine as long as you can then play out from the back and play through midfield, which I think they can do - some good interplay from Alli, Lingard and Sterling - just seemed to revert to type and hope that someone got a lucky header forward off a Pickford punt. A bit desperate.
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Nah, we aren't aggressive or cheating (acting etc) enough; qualities which seemingly count for more than skill in football.That isn't why. Croatia were better and England were a bit bobbins if truth be told, especially in the second half. If they want to beat teams as good as Croatia they need better midfield play, not hoofing it forward and hoping for the best.
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Kane is having one of his least effective games for ages.Yep, he is. Kind of bad timing from his point of view. He's done better as a midfielder today than as a striker.
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I don't think there is a generic email address for Sheffield City Council Housing Service. Separate email addresses for staff and teams.