Benefit Britain

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.