To think that if the goverment want to get people off benefts....

[toptramp]

They should create some bloody jobs?

I am a trained teacher and a single mum. I am not working as a teacher but as a tutor which is shite money compared to teaching. I recntly went for a proper teaching job which would have enabled me to completely get off benefits. the job went to someone else which is fair enough as she is more experineced with me. However, during the interview she kept telling us about her dh's promotion. I needed that job more than her! Anyway that's life and my employers made the right choice.

I have tried looking for other jobs to no avail. So does me claiming mean I am lazy? Far from it; I would love a proper teaching job and I would be prepared to work hard. Really hard but don't people realise that jobs don't just land in people's laps. Just because someone is unempoyed or on a low income dosn't mean we are lazy.

I should also mention that befotre the recession then my job was paid three times as much as it is now. I came into the job just as the wages were axed.

I am going to take on other jobs in the mean time.

I forgot to mention that the job I went for was internal.

how would you reckon they should do that?
i get that your upset and understandably so but so many people are in the same boat.

by the way the first person that makes a teacher/spelling dig is bu and is a twat

oh sorry i forgot yanbu but im not sure its possible

They should create some bloody jobs?

You mean like, 'magic some up'?

Creating additional public sector jobs isn't the way forward.

The last government tried to do that didn't they? I think they created lots of public sector jobs in areas with higher unemployment. This government is cutting them so they're certainly not going to create any more.

crikey, i can;t believe that the posters so far have absolved the govt of responsibility for creating jobs ?? there are many policies they could impliment to help businesses

free up land for housbuilding

do something about the developers sitting on land to foce prices up

get the building industry on its feet, and the next thing you know burger van men are laughing and the companies that make check shirts and hard hats....well you see what i'm getting at.

Well if they cut jobs then they can hardly grumble when people claim can they? People need to live.
I am thinking of trying to set up a business on the side.

I agree with custy!

Cutting jobs may lead to a depression surely? it's all to do with cash flow and circulation.

You're right of course, Custardo. I was commenting more with regard to OP talking about a (pressumably) public sector job.

Actually, toptramp, I shouldn't have posted so abruptly. I'm sorry you didn't get the job you applied for - your magnanimity is credit to you.

I certainly don't think you're lazy because you're on a low income. I would hope no one thinks that, although I sure some do.

Good luck finding something else.

I certainly don't absolve them of anything - I hate the whole wretched bunch of them. I was just pointing out that they are cutting the jobs the lasy government created using the ideology the OP cites.

Personally I would sooner spend money on jobs that boost the economy than on benefits that don't.

we have machines and modern technology to do stuff for us, we shouldn't need to work

It does seem silly that they would rather pay for people to sit at home on benefits rather than pay people to go to work and be productive and happy... May cost more short term to encourage new industry and provide increased public services but long term it saves massive amount of money (not to mention non-financial benefits of having good employment figures)

I'm not sure that there is really enough useful work to go round.
If there was 100% employment (or near to it) employers would lose bargaining power, a large reserve of unemployed people helps to keep wages low so the oligarchs can keep hoarding all the loot

I think its maybe not so much a case of "creating jobs" but more that they need to see benefit claiming and unemployment as the same issue.

Rather than saying "We are cutting benefits to end the culture of entitlement." And then in a seperate issue talk about unemployment, they need to stop tarring the entire benefit claiming population with the same brush.

David Cameron IMO seems to be of the opinion that ALL claimants have no desire to work. When infact that is so untrue. The "type" of people claiming benefits has changed dramatically since the recession hit. But the government havent caught up with this.