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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Jobs are a national resource, and should be considered as such.
They are finite in number at any given time, we do not have an unlimited supply, why give them away?
If we found, for sake of argument, a huge diamond mine in England, we'd not just trumpet it on the news and invite the entire world to turn up and see if they could grab a stone.
Come on, help yourselves, it's a free for all!
Why should jobs be any different?
Indeed, we opened by saying jobs are a national resource, and they are, but there is an even more important national resource of higher priority - people, the British people.
By encouraging a jobs free for all in Britain, by giving away our national resource, we betray the British people.
We should use this national resource of jobs for the benefit of the only national resource which really matters, namely people.
Just a few random ideas (deliberately kept simple) in the light of todays hideous unemployment figures as to how we can nurture this resource, create more, and use it in service of the British people.
End immigration. It is clear that we lack the necessary resources - in this instance jobs - to support additional people entering our population.
Prioritise British people for British jobs. Jobs are a resource, and it is only rightful that this national resource should be used for the benefit of our nation.
Train British people for the jobs available in Britain. Skills shortage be damned, if such a thing exists then we have the people, they want the skills, we should deliver on that.
Tax foreign labour, or the companies who use it. The lower wages which are the knock on result of a huge (mainly imported) surplus in the labour market make existence more difficult for the British worker, and leaves them competing on an uneven playing field.
End foreign aid. That money could be used on creating additional jobs. Town and city renewal projects if you like, instead of languishing on benefits we could hand a decent wage to our people to improve our country. The possibilities are endless, and that money would end up going back into our economy.
Withdraw from the EU. Free movement of labour benefits some nations more than others. The British worker is a huge loser in the whole sorry affair, and loses on every single front.
End British state benefits for foreign labour. Why should the British worker pay tax to support their foreign competitors who come to this country in search of British jobs?
Finally, make the use of illegal foreign labour into a crime, not punishable by a measly fine, but a true deterrent like a prison sentence.
There, just a few thoughts, there are many more that could be added.
Jobs are a national resource, we should be cultivating them and using them for the benefit of our nation, not creating a free for all the world where this precious resource is squandered much to the detriment of the British worker.
Unemployment has reached its highest level in nearly two decades as 114,000 more people joined the dole queues.
In an abysmal day for Britain, youth unemployment has hit a record high of 991,000, and the number of people claiming Jobseekers Allowance increased for the seventh month in a row, reaching 1.6 million.
Overall full time employment fell by 178,000 to 29.1 million, and that at a time when we're seeing an increasing population and a continuing influx of foreign workers.
Disastrous as that figure may be, it's much worse when the increasing number of people in the UK is taken into account.
Part time employment dropped 175,000 to 7.78 million people.
Those classified as economically inactive increased by 26,000 to reach 9.35 million.
Approximately 150,000 people have been made redundant in the last 3 months.
Long term unemployment - classified as those out of work for a year or more - rose by 60,000 to 867,000.
We bleed jobs, we import workers, our jobs market is a scandalous and collapsing shambles which sees the British worker disenfranchised at every turn.
ConDem had better have some damn good spin doctors if they want to get anything positive out of this news.
Even if they manage to put a good shine on it all, it's only gloss on the truth - the net result of Labour, and ConDem, is an economy in tatters and workers out of jobs.
It's another Big in Camerons Big Society, ever Bigger dole queues.
