"They put their own lives at risk, the lives of their families, relatives and children and when they come to the UK. It's not the land of honey and milk, it's much worse than they expected, " he said.

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But Purim is one of the few exceptions, when rivers of booze seem to gush through the Land of Milk and Honey.

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It wasn't so much a land of milk and honey, but porridge and weak beer.

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ERMwould bring the land of milk and honey to these shores.

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