harry wrote:

Well in the recent past there was work for all until socialists
destroyed the economy/society.

How recent is recent? We had a Labour Government for twenty threeish
years before this coalition.

And "work for all " I was one of Maggie's millions. Something like
three million unemployed. Don't get me wrong I am not pro Labour/anti
Conservative I am just anti generalisation.

But even then there were the idle sat in their council houses on
benefits.

Not everyone in a council house is idle nor are all the idle in Council
houses.

There is still lots of seasonal work where I live picking fruit/
vegetables.

Not a lot of fruit farms here in Scotland and virtually all veg farms
are highly mechanised [1].

I applied when I was much younger to several fruit farms and was told
there was only accommodation for females. Excellent job (spot the
sarcasm), 2X Forty mile commute daily to Blaeberry farms from my mum's
in central Edinburgh, for minimum wage. Managed in the end to get bar
and hotel work whilst studying for my degree.

[1] Even Tattie howking (potato digging) (surely the most back
breaking, if unskilled, work ever) work was hard to get when I was at
primary, but there's not even the remnants of that now as it's all
machines these days.