Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Limp sums

‘Leave us our menial jobs’ repeated Leo Varadkar yesterday.

The Fine Gael TD, who lives in Ongar, has suggested offering all immigrants a lump sum payment of up to six months’ worth of unemployment benefit if they agree to return home.

‘If they say something populist like ‘this is my home’ the offer should vanish immediately,’ he clarified.

A lot of ‘new Irish’ live in Ongar and attend schools in Mr Varadkar’s constituency.

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