Are we a nation of utterly lazy people?

I DON’T think I am the only one of your readers who is mystified.

As there are now many more vacancies in the jobs market than there are unemployed people, with the farmers, those in the tourist / restaurant / hosting trades, village shops, etc, desperate to get help, are we facing a nation of work-shy or utterly lazy people, both young and not so young?

Surely the Government is not so stupid as to hand out dole money or benefits to those people when so many jobs are available. What are these people doing to make a living?

They can’t all be so rich that they don’t need to work, even if the pay of jobs on offer isn’t up to what they consider to be their ‘rights’ (perish the thought!). Why do we constantly hear moaning about the rise in the cost of living? If we borrow money as we had to do in the last two years with Covid, for furloughs, etc, it was surely obvious that it would be hard this year while we try to pay it back. Ukraine problems haven’t helped.

And what about those millions [sic] of immigrants who seek refuge in our shores, why are they not encouraged to fill the jobs if our own people are too lazy? It beggars belief to read that there are idiots in our land saying we should bring back the Europeans that did the jobs before Brexit to fill jobs now, when we already have far, far too many people in our poor little island. Many I’m certain would only be too glad to have a job.

My other query is this. Even the Government realises now we need to grow our own food, not import it in order to stay alive, so why do our feeble local governments – backed by our out-of-date central government – agree to permitting wonderful fertile acres of priceless green fields to be covered by swathes of hideous solar panels?

These, years and years ago, should have lawfully been placed on the vast empty acreage of rooftops standing empty on industrial estates, private houses, hospitals, schools, churches etc, which still, after all this time, are standing empty. This conundrum is even more mystifying when fuel is so short and expensive.

One further matter. Were you not taught as a child to turn out the light when you left an empty room in order to save money and electricity? And also told to put on an extra woollen sweater in cold weather, before the evening wood fire or radiator was alight?

Nowadays offices and public buildings and housing estates blaze away, polluting the night sky regardless of desperate wastage of money, electricity and health-giving sleep but also murdering night hunting birds and animals.

Can any reader with simple common sense give me some answers please? Are you too as anxious as I am?

Mary Truell Lympstone, Devon