125,000 Are Choosing Unemployment in the North East

Here's the link :

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/...81582&method=full&siteid=50081-name_page.html

Inbetween watching Trisha I imagine they'll be spending their time producing more of the same !!

Having said that, if I'm being honest, I come to 'work' for a rest

I work in a jobsearch advice centre and a can believe that. Most people come in off their own back and want to find work but a lot who are sent to us from the Jobcentre just can't be arsed or are in a benefit trap, they are actually better off on the dole than working.

It pisses me right off how some people on the dole expect everything done for them, if they have to put a bit of effort into it then they just don't bother.

Like filling a form in

Especially that, lazy cunts

don't forget some people actually can't find work, but i agree there is a lot of lazy fuckers out there

yeah i agree, but I wouldn't be a bin man if i was trained as a doctor, would you?

I've been employed full time since i was 16 and have lived a full time paid life style to go with it - unemployment is not in my vocabulary

I tried to work part time to go to college when i left the Army but it didnt work due to how skint i was gonna be

Happy now though ££££

I suppose but I would look at in it a way, if i was working full time I wouldn't be able to spend much time looking for a job so would be difficult, and when I did I would pay a lot more taxes because of higher income and therefore pay for my time on benefits.

I do agree though some people use it as an excuse not to get work and others aren't gonna earn that much more by waiting so may aswell just start work straight away.

unemployment is still at its lowest for decades and im sure its something stupid like less that 5% of the population thats fuck all.... we live in a age when any THICK CUNT can choose work (in a call centre) if they choose to and the great fact is many do......... theres loads of scumbags grafting their arses off these days, just check the sales figures of Golf GTI's & Henry Loyyd.

I am happy with minus 5% not working

i've always had a job... some pretty shit ones too - but it was better to work in my opinion... maybe it's how i as brought up... a jobs a job - maybe not what i trained for - but it'll do as a stop gap. There's no excuse - if u can work - get a job.

Its so easy to sit on your arse and not work though.
The benefit system does not work, job centres dont make an effort to get people jobs. You go in to sign on and your out the door within a few minutes. If they do ask you if your interested in a certain job you make up an excuse and its forgotten about..

I managed to go 3 years without working, collecting benefits which basically put a roof over my head while i used all my spare time wheeling and dealing, sitting about doing fuck all, playing games or boozing in the pub!

I even went to sign on for a mate 2 weeks ago coz he was working fiddle money and signed the crappest signature ever which still worked.

Job Centres

Bring back national service

You only realise how bad the JC is when you have to work alongside them, they're an absolute joke which is why they've had their money slashed to almost nothing.

All they can do now is refer people on to places like ours, half the time for no reason at all other than to shift them from in front of the advisors desk.

Brid, I think that's a very conservative estimate. When you total up all the jobseekers allowance, housing benefits, funding for courses, interview grants and all that stuff you're looking at a crazy amount of money.

Won't that cost the goverment more?

it's not about money - it's about changing a societys problems and change peoples thinking