{"id":41374,"date":"2014-01-26T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41374"},"modified":"2014-01-26T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T17:08:23","slug":"doakes-sunday-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41374","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday:   Downmarket Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Politicians in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2014\/jan\/20\/jobless-migrants-denied-housing-benefit\" target=\"_blank\">United Kingdom are doing the math<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Britons without jobs: 413,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Immigrants who have jobs: 736,000<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Plainly, some immigrants have taken jobs from Britons while other immigrants are sitting on welfare. \u00a0In response, the government is tightening up the rules.\u00a0 Immigrants will find it harder to get on welfare and won\u2019t be able to stay on welfare as long as before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Meanwhile, President Obama assures us Republicans are just as eager as he to\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/195764-obama-to-democrats-boehner-will-pass-immigration-reform-in-2014\" target=\"_blank\">open the immigration floodgates<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The parallels between the US in the Obama era and Britain from 1965-1978 are unmistakeable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Politicians in the\u00a0United Kingdom are doing the math. Britons without jobs: 413,000. Immigrants who have jobs: 736,000 Plainly, some immigrants have taken jobs from Britons while other immigrants are sitting on welfare. \u00a0In response, the government is tightening up the rules.\u00a0 Immigrants will find it harder to get on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41374"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41427,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41374\/revisions\/41427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}