Remember who are the villains

Just as you can’t pour a quart into a pint jug it is likewise impossible to find work for the 9.25m economically inactive if there are only 900,000 job vacancies available (Sid Anning please note).

That’s because there are more people than jobs, a situation much exacerbated by record migration levels.

And the true inactivity rate is even worse given the sharp rise in the numbers of part-time and selfemployed workers, which mask the figures.

Not to mention underemployment of those in fulltime work. This is nothing new.

This country still suffers from

the wanton destruction of UK manufacturing wrought by that dreadful Thatcher government (which subsequent administrations - including ‘Labour’ ones - slavishly followed).

Manufacturing is the basis of all wealth.

When we were the ‘workshop of the world’ we were the richest and most powerful country on the planet.

Now hardly anything is made here at all – or if it, it’s probably owned by some faceless foreign outfit.

And let’s not forget some politicians actually think mass unemployment is a good thing.

Remember Tory Chancellor Norman Lamont’s infamous words – “Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we've had to pay to get inflation down. That is a price well worth paying.”

That price was paid by millions of ordinary workers who lost their jobs through no fault of their own, not by the politicians who caused the problem.

So blame the real villains not the victims next time, Mr Anning. John Helm