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Default Another ΓΊ20 bet won from an apprentice

In article ,
Rod Speed wrote:
Taxi drivers are generally self employed.


Yes.


So no unemployment benefit.


So they just get to starve if they lose their licence, eh ?


No reason for anyone to starve in a civilised country, much as the likes
of you would wish it. They will be entitled to *means tested* benifits
same as everyone else. But not unemployment benefit which is a *right* to
those who pay the appropriate NI contributions.

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