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Never occured to me to try.

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My wife works for the DWP.

Would that be the same as someone claiming on their medical insurance in the US?

Clue. 'The dole' is paid from by National Insurance contributions, and isn't available to anyone who isn't fully paid up in those.

Of course, being a compassionate society, there are payments available to those who don't have the correct NI record, but these are means tested and not just dished out willy-nilly.

You didn't get out much, then?

And funding the US national debt near brought them to their knees too.

Could be - there are still some poor countries in the EU that have yet to learn sense in such things. But they will.

Not on the first visit, no. It takes time.

You must have many many poor in the US.

Are the overweight US tourists we see in the UK poor?

Art Deco (art_deco@127.0.0.1) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Whereabouts in London? And how long in SE London?

Art Deco (art_deco@127.0.0.1) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

"Whatever's next to Bradford"...

Leeds. One of the main financial centres of the UK.

No they're not. It's like the fear of crime. Apparently crime is rife but ask most people and they've not been a victim.

Most of the country is working class.

There seems to be alot of them in York and Liverpool.

How? If they have no money they can't buy anything and therefore not pay VAT.

Clueless halfwit. So a city with a population of a mere 448,000 is the second largest in the UK? Riiight. ITS NOT EVEN THE LARGEST CITY IN SCOTLAND DESPITE BEING THE CAPITAL.

And Edinburgh isn't even the largest city in Scotland, let alone the UK.

Don't need to. Plenty of documentaries have provided evidence.

Alot less than yours and at zero for alot of the last decade.

..the same as the US.

Can't help having a decent economy.

Who needs to make stuff when the strength of your currency means you can buy so much for so little?

You should read the health statistics for your country.

No, MOST of the entire US population is. The UK is WAY behind thankfully.

That was an amusing snippet I read last week - apparently 3 out of 10 bank managers regard themselves as working class.

cheers, clive

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No, but it is the second largest city in Scotland... And probably Scotland's second largest financial centre, too...