"Mait001" wrote in message
...
which remind me, the people that man the permement anti-war (and bolt
on a load of unrelated issues) protest outside parliment - what do
they do for a living and how come they get so much time off?



Actually, from what I have read, it is "protestor" (singular noun) and
Parliament is about to pass an Act of Parliament to get rid of him (why
they
just don't sweep it all away when he is absent - which seems to be most of
the
time) I do not understand.

To answer your subsidiary questions: he is undoubtedly unemployed /
unemployable and people like me, law-abiding taxpayers, are funding his
indolent and useless lifestyle.

If he is getting up the noses of the politicians to the point where they are
wanting to take specific action to remove him he is hardly being "indolent
and useless".

If no one will give him a job then he is at least causing political
discomfort to others at a cost of physical discomfort to himself. Again
hardly "indolent and useless".

Someone who sits on their backside at home however, complaining about people
who make their voice heard is almost certainly "indolent and useless".