"many people are now so ambitious or so terrified of losing their jobs that they have to be forced to take their meagre allowance"
I'd rather live here and take my "meagre" allowance than put up with your country's BS. And one more thing telegraph, it's EARNINGS not ALLOWANCE.
oops got that all wrong. *red faced*
Allowance is just a more British way of saying it.
Don't forget that the Telegraph is the conservative paper.