Some TRY to get out finding a job or
even take the new route and set up their own self employed business. Many who succeed then find they are working
hard but they have less money than they got
before happily (or unhappily) sitting in the benefits trap. Many say then ‘why should I bother,
Job satisfaction only comes with work so I can keep my family!
Advanced
machinery reduces the need for labour and the number of jobs available, it is
not surprising that the ‘benefits trap’ has become a regular way of life for
many and a viable way to survive.
‘’How can we overcome this huge
difficulty facing society? Is it possible to overcome it? Here is a society running so short of opportunities many are
sucked in to soap watching and the national grid goes into overload just as EE
comes to a close and all the kettles are switched on to make a cup of tea?
How can fresh initatives be
stimulated? Our ‘soften
the fall media’ has a tremendous dumbing down effect; there is now a huge and sad malaise in society.
Young people are still hoping for a
job; even those well placed by family background and education who obtain the
passbook of a degree find it difficult to get work with less and less places available.
Here comes
the watering down after many schools unfortunate misleadings; the sharpness of
hope is taken out of life.
WE may talk of job experience or even joining the services to
get a real training and all these might be possible had we a democratic
government working for the people of this country and thinking further than the
Westminster game show. Here MPs are
safely cocooned and has others hit hard time they vote themselves higher
salaries, how on earth can such a
situation continue.
Look at Daw Mill, here is a real life example of why the situation will
never improve.
The loss of yet another colliery at Daw Mill in Warwickshire.
A fire has been burning for almost a month now and this after lots of work so
the mine may continue! Here is the last
straw. So sad?
Yet is this really the true situation? We live now in an age
of technology and advanced fire control techniques. It may not be easy but of course the fire can
be put out and there is coal there to be mined, some 56 million tons remain on
the site! If UK Coal want to rescue the work of 650 miners there they can do it,
yet instead they are working with government to close the mine. This will not
just make 650 miners very unhappy but many more people whose work is drawn from
supplying the mine with all the ancilliary services it requires, perhaps 2 or 3
thousand jobs and the wellbeing of many families around the area will be shattered,
gone for ever.
Is the buck carried by UKCoal? Is UKCoal part of ‘our’ democratic government
and do they really care?
‘We will toddle down to Westminster and play our party games
as we always do’ they may say----‘ come
on David et al , here is a real chance to show what to do and that ‘we are all
in it together’
20 million or whatever is very little compared with the cost
of all these people forced onto benefits and all those skills gone. Now for
once we must sacrifice the god of money and save this centre of working
for all the people concerned. We desperately
need to build up again all the UK’s
industries as a better way forward for all : or surely we all become office boys selling insurance to one
another as an extension to the city of London!
A truly grim prospect.
