This morning I bought the Daily Express to see the headlines “Five million people in Britain have never worked under Labour, Two million have never worked in their lives.” which have been common knowledge for some time it sent my accusing finger wagging in many directions to the powers of Westminster, Wall Street, The many companies that have been and gone and present to the social security offices.

When you look back to the end of the World War 2 and the National Service there was an air about the population where people didn’t want to fight any more and wanted fair wages to increase their standard of living.

The motor and engineering industries thrived with a revolution of workers wanting fair pay and Union Socialist wanting more. This sparked the introduction of immigrants to do the jobs, British workers didn’t want to do and for less money.

Many companies later went to the wall, either because management refused to curb their own fat wallets as well as socialist unions fighting for better conditions for the workforce. In many cases it was taken too far with some sections wanting money for doing so little and getting away with it with union threats of striking.

Later other industries felt the crunch with Margaret Thatcher crushing the Unions of the nationalised and public sectors in a very unfair way for the workers who did their fair share of work. There was little warning before mines were to close, and any time for the redundant workers to retrain for other industries.

We saw businesses invested in by foreign businesses and jobs disappearing abroad. New engineering practises for mass production were attempted but with not enough adequate machinery and techniques. Incentives were introduced by some companies as cost of living and inflation reached high levels and it wasn’t until she got the introduction of the dreaded “Poll” Community tax horribly wrong that the Tories ousted her.

Besides John Major’s brief reign as Prime Minister the Tories stopped listening to the public and it was a matter of time and a few generations that Labour with fresh new faces got into power with a clever publicity campaign that didn’t have any sense, but it was lively enough to lift the gloom from the young unemployed and those who had been since Thatcher with a song “Things are going to get better.” Also the Ex public schoolboy Tony Blair’s motto of “Education, Education, Education,” misled many by not stating how or who was going to fund his Party’s plan.

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What also was forgotten was what the future students were going to do for a job once qualified with many companies that were to go to the wall.

There was another element of spin that the Government encouraged was the increase in immigration and eventually letting many British workers go without working. If they had made people work for their benefits they wouldn’t have this problem now.

Many sat at home after being made redundant and bred like flies with no intention of getting another job. This was a dangerous trend and a disaster waiting to happen and will get worse until we get a leader who has the bottle to sort it out and it will take some time.

As a father is supposed to be a leader of the house, but now more women wear the trousers as well, they are supposed to set the example. If at least one of them work or take it in turns while the other cares for the children. Then the children will be guided to work themselves when they are old enough. You only have to see the evolution of life as an animal will follow its parents and learn to hunt. Fine examples of man are bygone years when boys used to follow their fathers down to the mine pits and their children after them.

After the war we had national service which was later dissolved. This could be introduced to those unemployed to help keep one’s dignity. There could be perks for these people taking part with the opportunity of retraining and studying for other careers. This would encourage their children to work.

At present you have the likes of Peter Mandleson encouraging people from abroad to take jobs that our people will not do, or for less money but if the Government encouraged the engineering sector to manufacture new products for export and used British workers, it would be more beneficial to this country as a whole.

However this appears to have backfired on the Governments of past and present, with certain immigrants signing on the dole and living off the benefits as well as others by starting work then getting the sack. Many of these have very low standards of living and do not care what accomodation they get, with some sleeping twenty to a room. As a result they bring down the living standards and environmental issues are also affected.

As for those who will not and refuse to work or have a disability, I suggest you see what you can do. If someone can return from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with limbs missing and/or other disabilities and find work of some kind, I am sure you can with the help of the DHSS. I understand that there are many who can’t for obvious reasons but there is a difference from those whom don’t want to. I am sure that there are ways that the Government can bring legislation to enforce a community service scheme.

I semi retired some time ago when I suffered an injury at work and took a gamble. I found I could afford to work part time after a long lay-off from work. It drove me nuts not being able to do anything after nearly thirty years of working at the same place. I had only two weeks previous in total off on sick leave; any other time I would use my holiday as we didn’t get sick- pay. I have been unemployed many years previous to that for about three months and then I took anything that was going. How anyone can sit around and claim off the state and do nothing is beyond me? For those who are looking, I hope you find something and wish you the best of luck and don’t give up.