The BiG Questions: Would an election help UK jobs?
This article may not be our normal type of directly related Careers Advice but we think it’s an important subject to raise, with all the issues in politics at the moment mainly revolving around expenses of MP’s whilst we have our personal views on that subject we don’t believe that the constant calls for a general election would be of any benefit to the UK economy or go any way to helping restore the UK jobs market.
In the office today we had Prime Ministers Questions on the TV and noted not one question to Gordon Brown from either the Conservatives or Liberal parties was directly relevant to any of the actual issues we have in the UK, in our opinion as a careers advice company the issues that Government and opposition parties should e concentrating on are the issues that matter to the people of the UK namely:
How to solve the current financial crisis
How to get companies employing again
How to reduce the numbers of companies having no option but to make redundancies
After PMQ’s we had our own debate in the office prior to writing this article to see where we all stood as individuals and the overall feeling was:
Although we don’t all have the same politics or support the same political parties we agreed that calling a general election now would be of no benefit to the country on issues like employment, wasting time with MP’s and ministers rolling around the country on the campaign trail would take all the emphasis off the real issues the country faces.
Issues like employment and the economy would all just be talked about and nothing actually being done to resolve the issues. And another important point as pointed out by our Training Services Director Shaun Thomas, should we have a general election now and the Labour Party no longer be in government then there will be a lot of services/programmes specifically designed to help the unemployed of the UK would be scrapped by both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats programmes like:
New Deal 18-24, New Deal 25+, New Deal for Disabled People, Entry to Employment plus the many other programmes designed to help the UK’s unemployed back in to sustainable employment which would just be scrapped and replaced by nothing, meaning the UK’s unemployed would just be left to it with no real support or training to help them back in to work.
So in our opinion calling a general election right now would not help the country come out of the recession and will not help the unemployed or those facing unemployment to find new jobs or retrain for other jobs.
But that’s our opinion we’d love to hear your views, do you think we should have a general election and if so what difference do you think a new government could make to unemployment in the UK?
As we are a careers advice company we only want to discuss this issue in terms of subjects related to employment, so please only make your views/comments on issues related to employment and jobs in the UK.
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June 3rd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
I am 39 years old and worked since i were 14 years old.I have been unemployed for 2 years,last job=Steelfixing=£160 PER DAY.I have been on New Deal for around five weeks so far.I have NEVER felt so demoralised and depressed in my life.I am clearing land of weeds, branches and bracken.With people on PAROLE,COMMUNITY SERVICE that spend more time rolling joints and sitting on their backsides than working.The one day you go to the Office for “Jobsearch” you get talked to like a 5 year old, a load of irrelevent drivel for the morning and an obsession with the C.V. writing.
I have never needed a C.V. I probably never will, what i need/needed was controlled immigration.I cannot get work due to the badly run ECONOMY and OPEN DOOR policy for immigration!! GENERAL ELECTION OR CIVIL WAR?
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your comments, and I am sadened to see your experience of the New Deal programme is such a bad one.
I would disagree with just one point you made in your reply that “I have never needed a CV I probably never will”, as many recruitment and training experts will tell you the days when people could just walk on to a job site and get the job are all but gone so having a CV that works is very important whatever age you are and whatever industry you are in.
As for your New Deal Programme I would have serious words with either the manager at the provider you are with or go back to your Jobcentre and make a complaint that you are not receiving the real help that you need to get you back in to work.
I don’t think that the UK is anywhere near heading down the route of Civil War, I think that’s best left to the less democratic countries of the world.