TTT...its happened again ! Us two, singing from the same hymn sheet !
Flipping heck, and me an atheist as well !
Of course you are correct and this isn't a party political argument, as successive Governments have failed to curb our benefits culture. I agree, make people work...if they don't, withdraw benefits.
But there is another aspect to this. If an employer is faced with the choice between 2 job applicants, one who has been on the dole for years and has no skills or training, and another who has skills and is willing to work, who can blame the employer for taking the latter ? And if that latter applicant just happens to be from Poland, is the employer somehow wrong for choosing the right person for the job ?
One of the reasons why we have so many out of work here in Britain is that a lot of them have very little education, no training and no skills. In the course of my work as a Social Survey Interviewer, here in south Wales,
I come across people like this all the time, especially in areas that used to rely on unskilled or semi-skilled work, like mining. When I left school in 1969, every boy had at least a CSE in Woodwork, but most of these people have no qualifications whatsoever. We should have been training these people thrown out of work, to be plumbers, bricklayers, sparks, chippies, etc, so that when the up-turn in the economy came along, they would be able to slot themselves into the jobs as they came available. I understand that is what happened in Germany.
But instead, we just paid millions of people to lie around on the sofa, watching the telly all day. A great tragedy, which is now coming back to haunt us.