On 18/11/2017 00:10, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
tim... wrote:
Yes - when starting out in your career.

people on long term benefits are starting out on their career whatever
their age

Very likely on benefits after their career ended - like in so many mining
towns, etc.


What about all those Blacksmiths, Carpenters, Wheelwrights and
Sellers of Lamp Oil that you will find on the 1911 census, who
lost their jobs when farmers bought tractors and installed
electricity ?.

Did stampers of Vinyl records feel aggrieved too when everyone
moved to CDs ?. Now the people who made CDs are out of work
because eveyone is streaming, or going back to Vinyl ?.

When Nissan started their factory in Sunderland they employed
precisely ZERO people with existing 'experience' of the
British Car making industry because they knew they would just
be tainting their virgin workforce with the appalling attitudes
and union-activities that were the norm at Longbridge, Browns lane
and Halewood.

There are thousands of longterm unemployed in Mythyr Tydfil who
found it a struggle to travel 30 miles down to Cardiff for work,
when a million east europeans, speaking no English came a 1000
miles and found lots of work. Some of them found work in Mythyr
Tydfil in the meat processing factory !.