Freedom of speech

The EDM now has five signatures so I think we can take it that it's a damp squib and Bercow is staying.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/16/john-bercow-backed-by-mps-across-commons

The EDM to ask for him to be removed still just has one signature.

Well thirty years ago I got it after I had put in an objection to having it refused.

That sounds about right Ana although if you move somewhere else, you have to give up your job, no choice.Oh, it was called the labour exchange wasn't it, then became the job centre.Nobody wanted to be on the dole.

You got unemployment benefit, but not immediately if you'd resigned from your job. I think you probably had to wait 6 months, don't know the prcedure now.

You didn't get them in the past ( I needed them briefly 40 odd years ago) but because I had given up my job to move somewhere else, a man from the job centre or whatever it was called in those days, came out to interview me where I lived ( strange!) and said that I couldn't 'sign on' and that my MIL wouldn't let me starve ( he said that with a little smile at his own wit) I got a new job as quickly as I could so it was alright, but I was willing to do any old job.It was in a library, and very nice as it turned out.

I bet they will have lost your records!

So?

Yes, I was thinking of about 30 years ago

Too late now!

Talking about thirty years ago, Jalima, when we moved from Hampshire to Yorkshire. I had been working as a teacher and paying tax and full NI for years. I was looking for work, which is what you get JSA for, although it wasn't called JSA then.

I didn't know you could get benefits if you resigned from a job.
Something that could have been useful to us years ago.

Yes indeed Mawbroon, I do remember that there was someone who kept a notebook of members' details in the dim and distant past...

durhamjen you have no idea how hard some of us have had it.

Not everyone has to say that they empathise with the likes of Daniel Blake or why.

To be fair Ana and roses there was a case of someone who "had a little list" in the past so it is not unknown.
Some of us do have a good memory for inconsequential details (which can come in handy in pub quizzes) others can't remember where they parked the car at the supermarket do not.

I was on benefits, it is demeaning , but questions have to be asked. And so much pressure on staff now.

I didn't say I had such a hard time. I said I was angry. I said it to show I could empathise with those people in I, Daniel Blake.
Unlike some others on here.

It's obviously suspect to have a good memory on here, roses...

Actually the comment about my JSA claim was to durhamjen, who said she had such a hard time some 30 years ago.

Didn't you read that post, daphnedill?

Whatever, roses.

Dj That really is only a small part of it. It's always been the case that you have to wait if you've resigned, unless you can prove a good reason. This isn't the place to go into everything. Maybe I should contact Ken Loach and he can produce a sequel.

dd you have said on various threads that you gave tuition, and also sold ( something that I don't remember) on ebay.Not that I have a marvellous memory but you are one of few posters who openly stated what you do for a living.Nobody is keeping lists about you, but it's unusual on Gransnet for people to say what they do ( most of us are retired anyway.)

Ana 20 years ago!? So was I, very briefly. The whole system has changed since then.

PS. If you're not interested in my life, stop keeping files or whatever you do! I'm beginning to feel I have a stalker - and, no, I haven't lied, if that's what you're trying to prove.

Sorry, I was NOT due any benefit....

I was refused benefit because I had moved to a different area with my husband and family, giving up a job. They told me I was due any benefit because I had resigned.
I had to appeal, which only took three weeks back then, and it was backdated.
Now it takes a lot longer. That's why it's demeaning.

Very well said, Eloethan.