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It's not just minimum wage that's the issue. Traditional jobs are going. Re-training is slow and expensive, and the gov has cut uni funding. The open uni had to put their prices up as well.
Perhaps a return of apprenticeships can help, but skilled job apprenticeships still take time. And if the undereducation is so bad people can barely spell, those also won't be accessible to the ones that are really stuck.
JWestland-
Perhaps a return of apprenticeships can help, but skilled job apprenticeships still take time. And if the undereducation is so bad people can barely spell, those also won't be accessible to the ones that are really stuck.
The gap is public sector jobs surely?
Sod austerity, frankly I'd like to be taxed much more and have people cleaning streets, enforcing planning standards, running play schemes, staffing libraries, performing operations and a million other jobs that make our day to day life pleasant.
brokenbetty
Bingo.
To live a life on or near minimum wage, with little job security or career progression is reality for very large proportion of people now and it's difficult to feel part of anything other than an underclass. The fact that the bottom-end of the jobs market is flooded with europeans here short-term, happy to tough it out in a shared bedsit and send money home has bred some resentment.
It's not fucking rocket surgery ... but Jeremy C hasn't really dealt with this at all. I'd like to see him try, then hopefully survive. I like him.