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So, more than one in six homes in the UK now have at least one person of working age unemployed. The highest rate since 1999. And there are now 3.3m households where no one aged 16 or over is in employment. So, here’s an idea, not a total answer but . . . let’s tax heavily those companies in the UK which outsource jobs abroad. What is the point of giving away the jobs of millions of people in the UK and forcing them on to the dole, which results in those in work having to pay more in taxes?

I’ve been there. And the ignominy of standing in a dole queue, being treated like a criminal or worse, and taken to be a liar. Harried and hassled, attending a government training scheme which was anything but, is an experience I shall not forget in a hurry. Or forgive. When people are willing to work, have skills to offer, are feeding their families as well as an economy . . . it seems to me the height of wickedness, and insanity, to deprive them of the right to work.

If I hadna been sitting down I woulda fallen over. It was the shock, you see. To read that we might once more be growing our own food in this UK country of ours. You young ’uns might not know this but this country gave up growing much of its food some time back because those eejuts at the top thought we could import the stuff much cheaper than we could grow it. And that we were far too busy and important covering the land with concrete, rape, and shopping malls to worry about running out of food.

I wonder if those same eejuts could rearrange the words roost, coming, pigeons, home. . .

Och, this leads me to tell you of ma new campaign -to make it illegal for anyone to become an MP unless they’ve done 10 years in the real world. Nurse, teacher, student, single mother, whatever  . . .  Then they can volunteer and are trained and funded to serve two years in the job to which they can never return. Nor can they get a pension. Or a duck moat.

Yes, I’m back. Bigger and uglier and with higher prescription red sunglasses than ever before.