5.4 million not in active employment and a million vacancies unfilled. People marched against Thatcher at 3 million unemployed. OK public employment is too high but what to do with such an excess? Put them on the dole? People who push pens for a living, OK, tap keyboards, don't make plumbers, builders, electtricians or mechanics. Cut their salaries and pensions? Watch the lights go out. Stalin would have people work or not eat. Starmer's a Trot, Sunak's an elitist but I doubt either have it in them.
Not until inward investment makes the private sector pay and conditions more attractive, by quite a margin, will we cure this.
5.4 million not in active employment and a million vacancies unfilled. People marched against Thatcher at 3 million unemployed. OK public employment is too high but what to do with such an excess? Put them on the dole? People who push pens for a living, OK, tap keyboards, don't make plumbers, builders, electtricians or mechanics. Cut their salaries and pensions? Watch the lights go out. Stalin would have people work or not eat. Starmer's a Trot, Sunak's an elitist but I doubt either have it in them.
Not until inward investment makes the private sector pay and conditions more attractive, by quite a margin, will we cure this.