There is simply no logic in the idea that British unemployed cannot travel to jobs that foreigners do. If it were true, then the foreigners wouldn't be able to travel either. But the foreigners do travel to the jobs; they travel further and they are poorer, having come from low- wage economies with little or no welfare payments.
But the foreigners don't - because they all got kicked out because of Brexit. Remember? It takes money to travel anywhere. want to work out the cost of getting from say Rochdale to Lincoln in order to take up a job? And remember this - the people on the dole are generally getting just over £80 a week, all of which goes on living - so how do they afford to go anywhere? What is absolutely crystal clear from what you say is that you've never been on the dole and haven't a clue what it's like to live on the breadline.
As an aside some of the EU workers coming here on agricultural work were paid by a ganger who organised and paid for their travel and took a percentage off the top. Maybe you should turn yourself into a ganger and get things moving?
Not true. I pointed out a couple of weeks ago that there are 5.3 million working age people on state benefits. Just think how many billions that costs every week, and how those billions could be used for better purposes such as education, training and help for businesses. (Peter Hitchens has also give the 5.3 million figure in his column today, see the link. He also refutes the lie that there has been a shortage of foreign workers since Brexit).
You are aware that state benefits include the working poor - the ones who's jobs don't pay enough to actually live and whose incomes are topped-up by credits, aren't you? Peter Hitchens is talking out of his arris - go to any abattoir in the UK and ask about labour shortages - they'll tell you that they don't have enough slaughtermen and they can't get enough vets - because a lot of them left the country after Brexit and there is nobody trained they can find. Same for care home staff. So why is Hitchen telling lies? (again)
As to employment and training, yes I'd like to see more money go into that. But one of the major problems is that a previous Tory administration, under one M. Thatcher, shut down a lot of evening classes, the traditional way you trained. Exactly what have your pals in the Tory government done in the last 12 years to improve that situation? Nothing. You also conveniently forget that the Tories have introduced a scheme whereby seekers are obliged to apply for any and all jobs that come up,
regardless of whether or not they have the required training and experience (something a lot of employers absolutely hate), and that they need to be able to prove that they have spent a large part of the week actively seeking employment. This leaves no time for training other than in the evenings - but of course there are NO evening classes, because the Tories
SHUT THEM DOWN!
If the Tories really want to get people trained up for jobs they need to start putting money into retraining and education - not trying to leave people destitute which uncharitable, skinflints like you want to do. That way there will be progress. But as it stands there isn't a hope in hell of sorting this situation out the way the Tories are going
