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Warning - don't cycle your (tebbit) bike too far

One interesting case at today's advice bureau was where someone had gone to work in Bulgaria for just over 3 months. On return they are deemed to be "Not Habitually Resident" in the UK and as such cannot get benefits.

Perhaps this is a mechanism used by Tony Blair to increase emigration.

This should, however, be an easy case to sort.

Another interesting case was a group of Brummies who were deported from Israel. Superficially it appears the main reason was that one of them had visited Pakistan.

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