Before I start this rant, I have to say that by 'hardened unemployed' I mean the career unemployed, not those who may have lost their jobs on recent hard times and who desperately want to work.
I mean those that have no interest in working - basically the dolites.
I was working today indoors in the beautiful sunshine, and many of us at work were saying how great it would be to be out.
I went home at 5pm and gave a relative a lift to his girls house, on a social housing estate. Here I was met with about 5 groups of families, including both parents and some grown children from each family. They had been drinking in the sun since 1pm, all lying in the front garden (of their free house I may add). One of the folk there was a new mother of 22yrs old, who has never worked a day in her life, yet recently was given a new house as she is a single mum. Tough times.
And tomorrow in the sunshine I will be back at work, paying taxes to support them. You can guess where they will be.
Who's the mug, eh?
I mean those that have no interest in working - basically the dolites.
I was working today indoors in the beautiful sunshine, and many of us at work were saying how great it would be to be out.
I went home at 5pm and gave a relative a lift to his girls house, on a social housing estate. Here I was met with about 5 groups of families, including both parents and some grown children from each family. They had been drinking in the sun since 1pm, all lying in the front garden (of their free house I may add). One of the folk there was a new mother of 22yrs old, who has never worked a day in her life, yet recently was given a new house as she is a single mum. Tough times.
And tomorrow in the sunshine I will be back at work, paying taxes to support them. You can guess where they will be.
Who's the mug, eh?