Jobless Scum

[KimberleyChris]

Nowt wrong with 'menial labour'. I've swept the floors in warehouses before and enjoyed it. Every job has its 'craic'.

Kick one out, give me his brush, and I'll happily start sweeping at 8am tomorrow.

[Support Monkey]

I assume they do thing's like go to the job center, shave, maybe have a wash too

They must have worked for a least 12 months before they can claim benefits

[Support Monkey]

Nowt wrong with 'menial labour'. I've swept the floors in warehouses before and enjoyed it. Every job has its 'craic'.

Kick one out, give me his brush, and I'll happily start sweeping at 8am tomorrow.

Same here done plenty of those jobs in the past however i think we are all to hooked up on media studies and becoming a reality TV star now to accept these kinds of jobs

[EternalOptimist]

if there were 2.75 million people less in the country, demand for shops, bus drivers, police nurses etc would drop by an equivilent amount, say 4%.

so the population would go down, but unemployement would not. it might even go up

[DodgyAgent]

The difference between the Eastern Europeans and the British unemployed is that they do not have sufficient welfare. Panorama on Monday was about American unemployed and I had to admire those who were hustling in the street to sell and earn money. It may not be very nice to do low level menial work but it is a lot better than being paid to sit at home and do nothing.

[original PM]

It is as it has always been for the vast majority of us to get on in life we have to get off our arses and do something.

I have yet to meet a long term doley who is not either bone idle or chav scum or both

[d000hg]

The last time the BBC spoke to Ben was in 2010, two years after he had his last job. He was pessimistic then. That pessimism has become a permanent state of mind, with little to no hope for the future. He insists he's not lazy.

If he's medically depressed, that's a tough situation to fight back from.

It's about time they invented direct brain injections for depression, to correct the chemical imbalances

[Spacecadet]

Here's another one

On the scrapheap at 21? The Dukinfield IT expert turned down for 1,500 jobs | Manchester Evening News - menmedia.co.uk

IT Expert at 21 and with a BTEC

[KimberleyChris]

Same here done plenty of those jobs in the past however i think we are all to hooked up on media studies and becoming a reality TV star now to accept these kinds of jobs

There you go.. You just brush and whistle and get on with it.

Every time someone posts one of these 'Mail' threads, all the usual 'holier than thou' tripe gets recycled again.

I wonder how many of you are actually what you say you are?

There is no such thing as a 'menial' job. And its easy to criticise if you live in London with billions of square feet of office space to clean every night.

When times were good, instead of 'allocating' every able-bodied person a job, whether they wanted it or not, you imported thousands of foreigners instead, and now you moan when they dont go home when the job market contracts :-)

[TheBigD]

Because they have a different work ethic to us, Like NLUK said our kids expectations are unrealistic, i find some (not all) expect to just sit around waiting for someone to come along and sort it all out for them, and someone else said they would need to do several jobs to make it worth while, well thats exactly what the eastern europeans are doing so if they can do it so can we but we are lazy.

Absolutly, so saying "If he was working, then somebody else would be on the dole instead.", is absolute tosh. It's not a 'one in one out policy', it's about who has the best attitude and motivation for finding work, and at the moment, it isn't people like Ben.