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[KimberleyChris]

"a. look at the unemployed, separate the ones that want to work and help them to get work".

At last!!! Somebody talking sense!!

Let us assume for the sake of argument, that 50% of benefit claimants want to work, and 50% are bone idle scroungers who do not.

OK, get on the job, and I expect to see 1,325.000 job vacancies on my desk in the morning.

Also, I will be complaining to the 'Whitehaven News' tomorrow, because there were only three column inches of job vacancies in my copy. They must have forgot to put all the job pages in my copy. B*****ds!

[sasguru]

"a. look at the unemployed, separate the ones that want to work and help them to get work".

At last!!! Somebody talking sense!!

Let us assume for the sake of argument, that 50% of benefit claimants want to work, and 50% are bone idle scroungers who do not.

OK, get on the job, and I expect to see 1,325.000 job vacancies on my desk in the morning.

Also, I will be complaining to the 'Whitehaven News' tomorrow, because there were only three column inches of job vacancies in my copy. They must have forgot to put all the job pages in my copy. B*****ds!

Plenty of jobs in London. Why don't you move? I would, rather than moaning and pontificating on an internet forum.
Do you think it's a god-given right for people to get work where you live?

[KimberleyChris]

Plenty of jobs in London. Why don't you move? I would, rather than moaning and pontificating on an internet forum.
Do you think it's a god-given right for people wo create work wher you live?

Christ, he's still here.

Try applying for one then.

See you at 11am, when you get out of bed and start posting like last week.

[AtW]

See you at 11am, when you get out of bed and start posting like last week.

That morning Mr sasguru had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to his duties in the House, he shall have further such meetings later today over a bottle of Talisker.

HTH

[sasguru]

Christ, he's still here.

Try applying for one then.

See you at 11am, when you get out of bed and start posting like last week.

I'll be up at 6.30 tomorrow as usual and in the office at 8.
I may start posting for some light relief at whatever time I feel like.
Your sense of victimhood is well advanced, I fear.

[KimberleyChris]

p.s. I did move, that's why I'm here.

Have you never heard of Sellafield, or Vickers?

Sorry, it's outside the M25 isn't it? Go get a map, it's up in the top left.

"I may start posting for some light relief at whatever time I feel like".

You must have really needed a lot of light relief last week. Dream on Mr Mitty.

[hyperD]

I'll be up at 6.30 tomorrow as usual and in the office at 8.
I may start posting for some light relief at whatever time I feel like.
Your sense of victimhood is well advanced, I fear.

Blimey Mr Grumpy, that's a long commute or you're a fine aficionado of daily Pot Noodles™ in bed!

[sasguru]

Blimey Mr Grumpy, that's a long commute or you're a fine aficionado of daily Pot Noodles™ in bed!

You haven't accounted for my my leisurely SSS process.

[sasguru]

p.s. I did move, that's why I'm here.

Have you never heard of Sellafield, or Vickers?

Sorry, it's outside the M25 isn't it? Go get a map, it's up in the top left.

"I may start posting for some light relief at whatever time I feel like".

You must have really needed a lot of light relief last week. Dream on Mr Mitty.

So basically from your posts I gather you're in a part of the country that has no jobs.
If it was me I'd move again or do whatever I needed to get employed again, including moving abroad ( whcih I have done in the past).
Just curious as to what goes through your mind.

[KimberleyChris]

So basically from your posts I gather you're in a part of the country that has no jobs.
If it was me I'd move again or do whatever I needed to get employed again, including moving abroad ( whcih I have done in the past).
Just curious as to what goes through your mind.

Thats pretty civilised and sensible actually, so I will reply to you in the same spirit.

Well, a few years ago, I was on the dole down south (Newbury) and there was nothing going at Aldermaston, where I had been a contractor for the previous seven years.

Sellafield was recruiting like wildfire, so I uprooted me and my two up here, to bask in the golden glow of the 'nuclear renaissance'.

Then it all went sour. The QANGO that runs Sellafield first did a blitz on contractors like me, and then sacked 800 staffies, so there was no prospect of getting in as a contractor while there was an atmosphere of redundancies.

Lots of promises of good times to come, so we hung on, but the good times never came back.

Hindsight is great, and if I had my time again I would have high-tailed it out of Cumbria two years ago, but now we have exhausted the necessary 'clout' to up-sticks and relocate.

So I'm not a victim, I'm a mug for ever coming up here in the first place.

That's why I WARN other people not to.

OK?