Just seen the government is planning to get long term unemployed people doing "unpaid" work in the community.Gets my vote but what do you people think ??

why should anyone BENEFIT from being out of work !! the word benefit makes my pish boil....it was a stigma when i started work 34 years ago to be on the dole people would talk about in in hushed tones ...now its the accepted norm ..i agree that whole families have lived this way for generations now and nothing else other than ho wto buck the system for every penny they can benefit by and in a lot of cases it is simply just not worth going to work ..why work when our taxes pay for great unwashed work shy to go fishing and play at schoolboy flitting from course to course with no intention if getting a job..problem is there are no film star wages for shop workers or cleaners, and the benefit system prohibits people taking these jobs as they will effectively be out of pocket....however that being said we can not just turn our back on unemplyed as many WANT work many are proud ..sift out the ones who are a leech on society and start them on the earn your keep program....its all a legacy of lunatic past governments and political over correctness and our liberal nature as a country to accept it without question..bring back family values....stop the sensless over spending on political asylum and look after our own who need .it before looking after others who ar ehere for as much as they can get without paying anything back in

you touched on an intersting point in your earlier post about the goverment giving businesses incentives to move to other parts of the UK where investment is needed. Do you remember the "Make a break for Bristol" campaign? Similar thing happened where big businesses were given incentives to move to Bristol - I think quite a few of the big insurance companies set up head offices there, like Churchill and Direct Line.

 

I LOVE living in the North (and I'm a Southerner born and bred) - weather is terrible compared to the sunny climes of Pompey but despite Boro's bad image and reputation, the surrounding countryside and beaches more than make up for that - and the roads out accross the moors - second to none! Had a drive out there last night - FAB!

 

Here's another example of the government abandoning parts of the country:

 

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2010/11/09/nissan-warns-government-as-grant-is-axed-61634-27622745/?

I think you should only be able to take out from the system what you've put in - less a figure for administrative fees.

 

So, if you've never had a job and never paid tax - you get fook all. No job seekers, no council house - absolutely sweet FA.

 

If, however, you've been in employment most of your life and have fallen on bad times, you should be able to claim a reasonable amount (say £100p/week). But you would only ever be able to claim a total of roughly 50% of what you've ever contributed.

 

Admitedly this concept would need some fine tuning - but you get the gist.

 

If these scumbag parents with scumbags kids couldn't just palm off their ignorant snotty offspring to burden society, but instead had to keep the promiscuous, drunken toss wipes at home until they could pay their own way - it would be interesting to see if they actually tried to get the little scrotes to put some effort in.

 

I still believe that mass social sterilising is the way forward...

 

Oh, and also to execute repeat criminal offenders as a matter of course...

 

As for finding work: If you want a job you can find one - its that simple. Just depends if you're prepared to lower your expectations to meet the current market place..