We all know that whichever party is in power after the election, life is going to get a lot harder with tax rises of one sort or another and cuts in services. There are a lot of people out there who have lost their jobs, and have little hope of finding employment for some time. They are claiming benefits to which they are entitled through the National Insurance contributions they have paid in the past.
I have talked to a lot of people who have always worked, and lost their jobs. They feel many emotions, anger at losing their jobs through no fault of their own, frustration at the lack of available jobs, despair that they cannot support their families to the standard they have been accustomed to, worry that there is a possibility that they may lose their home, and probably most of all they feel they have lost their dignity and self respect.
Now I am not going to talk politics, BUT, during the sixties and seventies they were a couple of schemes that appeared to remedy the above situation, and help industry expand. The government of the day, faced with mounting payments for the unemployed, and lack of growth in industry, brought out a scheme where they would pay companies to employ those workers who were on the dole. This gave companies both large and small a real incentive to expand and create more jobs. The scheme was very simple; the government used the money they would have to pay for the basic unemployment benefits, and gave it to the company for up to a year to help pay the wages of any one they employed, who had been out of work for a certain length of time.
This gave an incentive to companies to expand, most of all it gave the unemployed person a real job, and gave them their self respect back again. The cost so far to the British taxpayer, the same as keeping that person unemployed, except that now the government would make money from the previously unemployed on their National insurance contributions, and their income tax.
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Vic Farron RFT Express
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