The Truth is Out There

Having read this interesting piece

http://ilegal.org.uk/thread/7258/serious-flaws-governments-statistics?page=23&scrollTo=22933

I have decided that I have kept silent for too long

I have spent a year working with people who are now likely to be subjected to the 'boot camp' tactic

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11806231/Matt-Hancock-I-want-to-put-unemployed-youngsters-through-a-jobs-boot-camp.html

Here's a few thoughts.

1. Many of the people I worked with suffered from mental health issues that no employer would touch with a bargepole, not because the people with mental health issues are bad at work or substandard in their application  it is because employers will not invest in the help needed for those with specific challenges to support their employment. Also as many employers employ unnecessary and in many case brutish working conditions to drive profit at any cost that there is a great danger of a major backlash in the health of these workers. Believe me I've seen even the strongest buckle under the demands of the market economy and Victorian employment ethics.

2, I worked with a college who spent most of their time cancelling courses on me at 24 hours notice, costing me work, when so called Jobseekers were being sent to me for employability skills training. The local Job Centre involved were supposed to send people along but quite frankly they were just concerned about making sure that they could fill out paperwork to show that the actual number of jobseekers had dropped. Why ? well that's simple lower the numbers on the books or find yourself a new job yourself as we're cutting back on civil servants and those not with the programme are gone. Sounds a bit conspiracy theory ? Not so it's easy to check out how the system works, if you're a PhD in Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy. No sorry remove the philosophy because ethics are involved in that.

3. Care work - two words that have become vilified in our society because of the exposing of cruelty to vulnerable people. This is highly important because vulnerable people need protection but there is another reality and that is that the private care companies and the way they rip off the system to the tune of millions and don't really care about either the service user or the employee. Now obviously this is not all care companies but I can show you carers who are effectively working for nothing and in some cases paying to work for the care companies. They are physically and mentally drained, abused by service users and management alike and left struggling to survive. And how many times are people forced into this work by the job centres because they are unemployed. I can show you care companies who claim money from the state for calls that are neither needed or completed. And what is worse I've actually reported this to the local authorities with evidence and no investigation took place so who really cares?

The real reason why were are truly underemployed in this country is because just like the banking system had a black hole in it our labour market has the same and if enough people begin to realise this then my gosh the whole system may just collapse.

The truth is out there but do we actually want to see it because we live in a world of I'm alright Jack and screw everyone else. Oh and we'll vote for anyone who gets rid of the costs to us and lowers our taxes. 


A word to the wise though - no government lowers taxes they just hide them better