Yes it's deplorable there is high unemployment in the area, but as a seaside resort sadly most of the work is seasonal on offer or working in care homes or part-time work.
Why shouldn't people on benefit claim anything and everything on offer?
The Government constantly tells us we are not claiming all that is due to us. While some make a career from not working, please don't tar others on benefit with the same brush.
These high unemployment numbers may or may not include single mums.
Can I remind all those in work such as job agencies, council workers, social services etc, perhaps they themselves would be jobless without the jobless to acre for.
In a perfect world we would all be equal but we know that is not possible.
And yes I endorse the feeling that people should be in work. for those who are not, please be aware that it's not crime to claim benefits of all kinds that is what they are in place for.
Perhaps an incentive for those of us in work or about to embark on a working career could be made from local council or government.
Whatever hours we work that would be more helpful and useful thus encouraging the jobless to seek work.
For some it would be helpful on low wages to have free travel permits, others petrol vouchers, a year at a time only changing should the wage or job change.
We live in a highly taxed country with fewer and fewer incentives to work and lack of moral feelings doesn't help.
Other nations are seen to get everything we have worked for denied to us in our own country, as it has been suppressed in all the avenues of our life.
We are made to feel ashamed of our background yet other cultures flourish which is right and proper.
But not at the expense of ours.
Through the ages it seems religion is the backbone of most countries whether it's one we believe in or not.
We should be able to celebrate our different cultures and many do thankfully but our own starting with schools and families is nearly non existent.
These places are where our young people understood the work ethos and the pride of being in work, plus respect for each other.
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