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Desperate Cameron plays the 'lower, lower!' game…

He never gives up, does he? Tory ‘call me Dave’ Cameron – descended from King William IV – really thinks that the way to curry favour with the British public is to play the ‘lower, lower!’ game on bank bonuses.  Dave is trying to underbid the government on the banks’ bonus payout shambles, which just

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Record immigration levels and Home Office lies

More than 150,000 foreigners from outside the EU were allowed to work in the UK last year, a figure almost four times higher than when Labour were elected in 1997. Some 151,635 work permit applications were granted between December 2007 and November last year. This is a 17% increase on the 140,600 issued in 2007,

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Over 50 and need a job? "Forget it," say recruiters

Those of us who have ever been made redundant at the age of 45 or over will know the situation only too well. Now Channel 4’s exposé of recruiters discriminating against the over-50s has confirmed what we all suspected – that many recruitment agencies claim to have ‘lost’ CVs of more mature candidates when they’ve

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7000 British security jobs given to ILLEGAL immigrants

The famous Gordon Brown promise of  ‘British jobs for British workers’ somehow doesn’t ring true when it appears that over 7,000 security jobs in Britain – and even in our police force – were actually given to ILLEGAL immigrants approved by the less-than-competent Security Industry Authority.  As if giving the jobs to any foreigners at

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