The Big Dollop has from time to time published his tuppence-worth of opinion (see tags) on the manner in which certain ministers serving in HM’s Coalition Government have espoused their rhetoric concerning the desire of people unlucky enough to find themselves signing on at the Labour exchange (often through no fault of their own) in their quest to find gainful employment.
Playing to the selfish among society, the unemployed have been labeled as nothing but a burden on that great moral guardian of UK society – the Tax Payer, someone to be pointed out as a major reason as to why the country as a whole is going down the tubes with ministers and employers alike branding any UK Citizen unlucky to find themselves out of work as being lazy and feckless.
Throughout the time I have been blogging, it has cheesed me off that the powers at be have done absolutely nothing in a practical sense to alleviate the hopes and aspirations the genuine jobseeker from attaining a position of employment often writing him off in favour of some Johnny Foreigner who is supposed to have some sort of superior work ethic.
Take the case of Abellio, a subsidiary of the Dutch state rail operator, who recently held a recruitment drive in Poland where they advertised driving positions paying £10.60 an hour for the first two years after which the hourly rate will then increase to £11.50, unsurprisingly they went on to hire 51 drivers and in order to justify their employment policy - claimed they could not find any Suitable British Candidates to work on bus routes in central and South West London
With 2.6 million people signing on in the UK, Abellio are being disingenuous IMHO, to say they can not find 51 drivers of British heritage to drive their God Damn buses – by "Suitable British Candidates" - I think they mean people accepting a wage rate way below that necessary to meet the real cost of living in in a city like London.
Back in October of 2011 The Big Dollop posted his opinion on the merits of a proposal of the Coalition Government in relation to the unemployed moving from one part of the UK to another in order to find suitable employment – what chance do they have when the company running the bus service in the UK's capital city prefer to hold a recruitment drive in Poland to look for employees, honestly folks you couldn’t make it up .
A British Icon - The London Routemaster
Playing to the selfish among society, the unemployed have been labeled as nothing but a burden on that great moral guardian of UK society – the Tax Payer, someone to be pointed out as a major reason as to why the country as a whole is going down the tubes with ministers and employers alike branding any UK Citizen unlucky to find themselves out of work as being lazy and feckless.
Throughout the time I have been blogging, it has cheesed me off that the powers at be have done absolutely nothing in a practical sense to alleviate the hopes and aspirations the genuine jobseeker from attaining a position of employment often writing him off in favour of some Johnny Foreigner who is supposed to have some sort of superior work ethic.
Take the case of Abellio, a subsidiary of the Dutch state rail operator, who recently held a recruitment drive in Poland where they advertised driving positions paying £10.60 an hour for the first two years after which the hourly rate will then increase to £11.50, unsurprisingly they went on to hire 51 drivers and in order to justify their employment policy - claimed they could not find any Suitable British Candidates to work on bus routes in central and South West London
With 2.6 million people signing on in the UK, Abellio are being disingenuous IMHO, to say they can not find 51 drivers of British heritage to drive their God Damn buses – by "Suitable British Candidates" - I think they mean people accepting a wage rate way below that necessary to meet the real cost of living in in a city like London.
Back in October of 2011 The Big Dollop posted his opinion on the merits of a proposal of the Coalition Government in relation to the unemployed moving from one part of the UK to another in order to find suitable employment – what chance do they have when the company running the bus service in the UK's capital city prefer to hold a recruitment drive in Poland to look for employees, honestly folks you couldn’t make it up .
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