It’s the unemployed who are the forgotten victims & who seem to be demonised, patronised & blamed for unemployment within the wider media.
In 1995 Labour shadow ministers did give clear indications, if elected, they would tackle some of the worse parts of JSA. They gave assurances & intention to make “speedy and far reaching reforms to eliminate the worse excesses”
Not scrapping the "Job Seekers Allowance" is Labours’ Betrayal!
The
number of unemployed people reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with
the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%. Economic figures due out on Monday
are expected to confirm that Spain will have joined the UK &
slipped back into recession.
In the first three months of the
year, 365,900 people in Spain lost their jobs. The country has the
highest unemployment rate in the European Union and it is expected to rise further this year.
Cuts in public spending & severe austerity measures by capitalist
governments are NOT working. The government in Spain along with Greece,
the UK & France have introduced drastic spending cuts designed to
reduce "capitalist" debt levels and meet deficit targets agreed with the
European Union. These cuts are contributing to severe economic
contraction.
What we are witnessing in these countries is a
"domino effect" - The recession is so severe that when you take one step
forward on austerity, it takes you three steps back. Spain is going
down the same path as Greece, the UK has "flat-lined" - we're back into
recession. These capitalist countries are all interconnected - the
events in Greece, Spain & France have an impact "the capitalist
domino effect".
The way out ? ....... a "planned economy" based
on the needs of the people not capitalism ! We need a system in place
based on socialism.
A group of jobless Spaniards tried to form the country’s longest-ever unemployment line in the capital of Madrid.
With more than 4 million people unemployed at the time in Spain, the unemployed tried to form the longest unemployment queue to set a
world record, around 5 km long.
It's a form of protest against
the government's recent benefits cuts for the long term unemployed. A
huge number of long term unemployed now receive nothing in the form of
any benefits at all.
In 1991 within Margaret Thatcher's government the then Chancellor of the Exchequer - Norman Lamont, stated in The Houses of Parliament that "Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay. That price is well worth paying."
He later went on to say : "what we are seeing is the return of that vital ingredient – confidence. The Green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again."
Within the last 24 hours it has been confirmed that in the UK we're in a double-dip recession - with the storm of a depression looming. Respect For the Unemployed & Benefit Claimants warned 3 years ago - we either learn from history or risk repeating it !
This shambolic government is repeating history - the Tory led British
government are politically, economically inept ! Put into context, our
recession period has now gone on longer than the 1930s Great Depression.
Recession can become depression unless the government takes urgent
steps to plan for growth through state-sponsored investment. This posh,
Tory led coalition government couldn't care less for ordinary people
struggling. In Britain we need a planned economy based on social need - socialism is what we require !
