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Keith, times have changed with regards to employment, because the situation and the circumstances have changed.
Even only a few decades ago, the ideals of the Trade Unions, and also of the original Labour party, upheld the rights of factory workers, miners and workers in general. A minimum wage usually increased in time when an employee gathered more experience.
People could not be laid off easily, not without redundancy, if the company went into financial problems. People got holiday money and sickness benefit. Although nowadays these luxuries are still there, they are restricted to a lot less people. The minimum wage and the work-agency policies of today tend to exclude things that used to be taken for granted.
There was more manual work to be done, the machines were not the ultra-modern technology of today, which require less people. And many manufacts that nowadays are imported were locally produced. There was a lot less unemployment in the past. Why? Because there was a much higher demand for workers!
Unless a lot more jobs are created, Keith, not even the State can oblige millions of unemployed people to work. The number of jobs needed is not there! How would you want to oblige someone to work in Tilmanstone Salads or the London Box Factory, Keith, if these sites are already fully functional with employees galore?
Let's keep local to be practical. We don't need to go further than Dover. Just tell me how you would oblige unemployed people to work in the two mentioned factories when these have already enough workers by day and by night.
Or how would you oblige people to pick apples in Kent, when the farmers have enough employed people galore picking apples whenever they need them?
So, with 5 million people who the Government considers to be unemployed when they could be working, many of whom on benefits of one kind or another (in fact people on incapacity benefits don't necessarily go to sign on), and this only counting those who Gov believes could do work, just explain how, Keith, you intend to oblige people to work?
Where are so many vacant jobs to be found?
And if you managed to find a 39 hour a week job for an unemployed person, instead of paying them benefits, you should pay them at least the minimum wage! However, if you were to take benefits away from unemployed people, and leave them to starve, you would have serious problems to deal with within a couple of days, and most probably find the whole Nation against you.
No Keith, not practical!