Benefit Britain

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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.