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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.