Johnny Void here argues that apart from those officially counted as unemployed according to the agreed international definition, there are two and a quarter million hidden unemployed consisting of those who have stopped looking for work out of despair, those looking after the home, but would like to be working, people unwillingly forced into early retirement, and the sick and disabled, who would rather work.
He also exposes the way the governments have moved from recognising the failings of themselves or capitalism to produce jobs, to blaming the unemployed themselves. He is particularly scathing about the cult-like mindset with the Jobcentres and DWP, which promote any number of quack bogus psychology, like the tweet from Jean Sharpe above. The British Psychological Association have promised to tackle this, and have so far not done so. Mr Void provides a link to the Association’s Twitter account and Facebook page for those wishing to contact them about this, and the information about this pseudo-psychological claptrap over at Boycott Workfare’s website.
A senior DWP manager has a motivational meltdown on twitter.
According to the latest statistics there are currently 1.84 million unemployed people. There are also 1.3 million people working part time because they cannot find a full time job. Nearly half a million people who are officially employed work less than six hours a week. Over 100,000 so-called employed people are actually on unpaid workfare.
But even this only tells half the truth about the number of under and unemployed people in the UK. There are a staggering 2.25 million people who are ‘economically inactive’ and want a job but who are not included in the unemployment figures. That means the true number of unemployed people, if unemployed is defined as not having a job and wanting one – which is how it should be fucking defined – is over four million.
The reason you never hear of the missing…
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