Reports say that the Cypriot unemployment rate for December 2015 is down by 8 percentage points to 15.7%, from 16.5% in the last month of 2014. Maths seem odd. But apart from that, this doesn't take into account young people leaving the country because there were no jobs for them.
Discussion - well no, actually we just listen - with the woman who runs the animal shelter charity shop. J asks her opinion on the UK exiting the EU: she's all in favour. Then comes the torrent - all the money and benefits that asylum seekers can get at the expense of the British poor. She quotes astonishing figures. They're wrong, of course. I'm disturbed enough to look them up when we get back. But if there were the sort of differential she imagines it would be pretty distressing. As it is, the most upsetting thing is the seemingly endless pitting of the poor against the poor. The why should they get it when.... Never seems to come round to any suggestion of sacrifice on the part of the one percent.
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