[Margaret Pilkington]

There are people on the dole because they don't want to work(I am not saying all of those on the dole are like this...but some are)....and of course it doesn't make sense to have 3 million people on the dole........they should be working,paying taxes...contributing to the wealth of the country, helping to pay the debts incurred by the last government.
Where are these jobs in manufacturing? Have the unemployed got the appropriate skills to do the jobs that are out there?

Maybe the German manufacturing base is different. While you might like to comapare Germany and its economy the the British one, what evidence have you to suggest the economies are comaparable?