Thanks to the windfall of North Sea Oil and Privatisation receipts. Neither being available to other governments. It was smoke and mirrors. (View Post)

Some do. After one year asylum applicants are allowed to work, but only in shortage areas, notably Social Care. (View Post)

We do. Virtually all visas include a stipulation "no recourse to public funds". This only lapses when permanent residence is granted after a minimum of 5 years, with only rare exceptions. O… (View Post)

A doctor I know married a muslim woman and converted himself. He kept his birth name of Bacon. It didn't seem to be a problem to him! (View Post)

I think the reason that there was so little mutiny by British and Imperial troops compared to other combatants was because of the policy of troop rotations, so rarely spending more than 2 weeks at a … (View Post)