[Margaret Pilkington]

Well, Gareth you may think I was contradicting myself, but the point I wanted to make was that jobs should be real jobs....making the dole an unnecessary benefit.
One of the problems that we have with some unemployed people is that they want jobs with good wages and good prospects, but have limited marketable skills....no-one appears to want what are seen as 'menial' jobs.
We have a migrant population who will do the menial tasks and will do them for a cheap rate, so then the indigent unemployed bleat on about migrant workers taking jobs....but they appear to be jobs that our own population do not want to do.

The benefits system has been allowed to run out of control for too long....no political party has had the guts or the gumption to radically overhaul it, for fear of losing votes.
All the political parties have been guilty of just tinkering with it, hoping someone else would come along and do the real work on it.......and we all know that that never happens.