It is heading that way.Already talking about "Volunteering" for jobs as waiters etc.I have had my own business since 1977 The Tories are all for the big boys.
Now he's chasing the money, he knows he wants to vote Tory but he just can't bring himself to do it, political limbo. I predict that within 3 years a Pole will be promoted above him by another Pole and he'll complete the transition and become a true blue Thatcherite.
Working for nothing is no bad thing. When I left full time education I offered my services to companies for free so that I could get around the initial of block of having the skills but lacking the experience. As it turned out I got a job before any company took up my free offer. I'd do it again if I were ever have to re-train to a different skill set. Experience is what employers value above everything else. Gain that experience any which way you can. So, in those terms, putting long term unemployed into 'jobs' makes sense. It's the forcing part that sticks in ma craw. *hops back on fence*
I haven't been out of at least part-time work since I was 14 (well, for more than a few weeks). I just can't imagine a scenario where I couldn't get a job - any job - it would just be a case of the least-worst job. Last time I got made redundant in 2009 I ended up in 5 or 6 interviews within a few weeks and got offered 3 of the jobs - and that was staying in the betting industry. I had my dad and my uncles on the phone offering me other labouring jobs in Belfast, which I would have taken if nothing else came up. Even now there's a lot of insecurity in my current job which could be ****ed in a few months - but it's not the stress of possibly being unemployed that is doing my tits in, it's the possibility of having to up sticks and move again for whatever job will present itself next. That's why I find it hard to empathise with a lot of these long term unemployed, because I find it difficult to see how if you are able bodied (and don't have a mental criminal record) you can't get a job if you actually want to get one. Even some of the worst ********s who send barely legible CVs into our place are at least doing bar or waiter work, or something.
I may ask gambol to share that spot on the fence. Although I think I may have some fairly socialist views in amongst my general right wing liberalism theres no escaping that in australia the minimum wage is equivalent to nine pounds and some in sterling... which means that there is almost nothing that is not cheaper to buy abroad and import. Therefore almost anything that the country produces - perhaps with the exception of some intellectual services/property - slowly becomes less and less viable.
I hear this nonsense all the time... "Oh the Tories are for the big boys" If the "big boys" are doing well, guess what? it mean's worker's are doing well too because extra room for expenditure for business owner's mean extra room for employee's. By stuffing the "big boys" you're biting the hand that feeds.
Who pays for the stuff the 'big boys' are selling? Wouldn't it help business if 80% of the population could afford to buy stuff they sell without being in debt? Capitalism is based on consumerism, if the consumers can barely afford to heat their homes, they won't buy iPads. Why the f**k am I even bothering, you want Farage in power
