It's not a big town, where I live
If immigrants can move hundreds or thousands of miles to live and work in the UK, why can't english people move a few dozen miles to find work where work exists?
There must be hundreds of small towns across the UK that suffer from lack of employment, they are either holiday resorts (so seasonal low paid limited work), not near any major ports or distribution areas. Maybe traditionally they were farming towns, but so much farming has become centralized and mechanized.
People have been moving away from such places to the cities for hundreds or more years, now they stay and live on benefits, can't really blame them though.
Large cities are a bit different, it's expected that all the money the government takes in is used to renovate these areas with new links and ports and such(but the government always fails to do so, as it can never stop taking in more and more tax, the big killer of business).
But the government can't be expected to inject cash into all the hundreds of little villages, and I can't see them turning around on their own.
Nige F said:
shame the disabled couldn`t get the same lawyers to challenge the benifit cuts - Maybe it was because they WERE disabled icon_eek.gif , tired and unable perhaps icon_question.gif More Victorian Values from the Tories icon_rolleyes.gif
Can you provide a link please showing the benefit cuts to the disabled.
I also find it interesting that you want to pay someone to practice their hobby, as opposed to working for a living.